Here are the PowerPoint slides for my ASCILITE 2005 presentation of the blogs @ anywhere paper. Essentially I’m trying to put the cat amongst the f2f pigeons in a similar way to how I did virtually at at blogsavvy. Nothing particularly balanced, considered or ‘big picture’, just plain old ranting and raving about the fundamentals …
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Trying computers in classrooms hit their limit in the 80’s all that has changed is the technology…
Spent this morning having an excellent conversation with Anne & Chris around the state of education and technology for Adrian’s upcoming issue of Fibreculture. Will post it here if Adrian’ll give me permission :) Along those lines, from CJ’s: “There is now a huge industry of writing about, puzzling about and in general making noise …
Ooops, busted me desktop email
Gah… the stoopid ‘backup’ system here just wrecked all my email folders & saved messages… Seeing as I generally use this as a big list of “Things to do” I’m in a bit of trouble :( If you’ve asked me to do anything / emailed me about anything in particular that I haven’t got back …
Recommended podcasts please!
Aw, sod it, I need to make more time for some of these audio babies… any particular podcasts that you’d recommend? I have some strange vision of listening to these being a strong motivating factor in going for a run / ride / getting healthier in some way…
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Johannes Ernst's Blog – URLs for digital ID… hell yeh! Early thoughts on Joomla (nee Mambo) at D’Arcy Norman Dot NetSaves me plodding through it :) Looks interesting though… perhaps it’s worth a stroll…
ASCILITE 2005 getting stranger by the minute…
Am having an entertaining time getting ready as a presenter for ASCILITE 2005 next week. First up the four of us who are presenting on blog-esque stuff were asked to get our heads together in a ‘fully functional’ online environment to decide how we wanted to run our sessions, where (apparently the botanical gardens were …
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Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Paper aeroplaneMake the perfect paper aeroplane… I have *always* wanted to know this
Tom Hoffman & ‘the top 20?’
Hey, I found Tom Hoffman, wondered where he’d gone :o) But at the same time… this as one of the top 20 edublogs… c’mon, lay off the arse-suckery and get your nominations into the edublog awards!!!
edublogs being blocked!!!
Well, you know you’re doing something right if people start trying to stop you (I know this is an odd logic but it seems to be true in a bizarre way) I quote from two emails received when I sent out the first edublogs.org newsletter: “I used your blog for a few weeks during Sept, …
Blog Hui 2006 – Be there!!!
Well, what with Blogtalk Reloaded being announced for Vienna in October 2006 it’s a pretty exciting time (again!) in the world of Blogging Conferences because Blog Hui: New Zealand’s First International Blogging Conference has also just been launched by the ever resourceful and ridiculously energetic Lynsey Gedye. It looks like it’s going to be absolutely …