Musings … reflections … writing in general
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Footling Round in Websites and USQ’s Shakespeare in Queen’s Park site
Time to change my current Shakespeare in Queens Park Festival site from iWeb over to a server at work. Too many hits (modest blush) and chewing up bandwidth. Can’t wait for iWeb to sort itself out in terms of making a little easier the “publishing to a folder” and creating more than one domain site.…
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What makes a good meeting?
Another from the archives and my feelings about meetings haven’t changed. One of the things I don’t miss about university life is the endless round of meetings, poorly prepared for in most instances, and time-wasting. We’ve come a long way in thinking about how to be more productive of time and effort since then. These…
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Digital Doodling and Podding, oh my!
It’s been a week of mulling over approaches to teaching during the coming academic year. I’m keen to try my hand at preparing a rubric for one of the projects in a performance-based course I teach. Met up with rubrics and the way they operate a couple of years back at the VASTA (Voice and…
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What a month!
I can’t believe this. After being as diligent as I have with the blogging, there I go–almost an entire month without. Ah, but what a month! A glorious week on the east coast of southern Mexico (Azul Resort) with the family for a wedding, and a week in Honolulu for a conference, and hanging out…
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And so, 2006, the end is near …
A quiet day of taking stock, writing, reading, watching television and tossing stuff!It’s been quite a year. Reading back over other project blogs (USQ 2007 40th Anniversary and SiQP Festival) confirms just how busy I’ve been; I’ve probably convened or attended more meetings this year, than at any other time in my life. Memo to…
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The hunt for the perfect swimsuit is over!
Yes a long-ish drive to Brisbane on the hunt for the perfect swinsuit, but it was also a chance to start listening to a new audio book as I did. The swinish hordes of shoppers were not a bit swinish, and looked very much like me, and indeed were not horde-like … the crowds had…
Got any book recommendations?