It’s not even winter yet and a dreaded sinus bacterial infection has taken me out. Off to the doctor this morning, sick and sorry for some antibiotics (Amoxycillin). The only thing to be said in its favour … forced time out. Nasty bugs!
Continue reading ...A weekend outside that is glorious, and I’m stuck into report writing and continuing the bash together a conference paper, due Wednesday. Not much of this so far. Nothing like a little bit of pressure to bring out the procrastinator in me. What I have done is to sort photographs into smart albums (in iPhoto)
Continue reading ...Finally got going this afternoon on prepping a couple of conference papers on my experiments in “podagogy” and digital doodling. It was all very exciting finding that I actually had written so much in my blog over the last nearly 6 months, that it was a simple matter to do a cut and paste job
Continue reading ...Went early to bed with a head full of stuff and woke twice through the night processing, processing! Result was to get up early and get some of it (conference paper beta) down in a coherent fashion. No Sudoku this morning, but a productive couple of hours in the cool, pre-dawn air with good
Continue reading ...Every time it happens I’m reminded of that first axiom of good teaching: take nothing for granted. Again today, a couple of bright students indicated how nervous they were about tackling the whole online thing. I suggested using either Google Docs and Spreadsheets or the excellent Celtx open-source software so that they could publish their
Continue reading ...I’m entering into a new phase, or “workflow” of projects right now. Mad Forest is playing out its season this week, so I’m in the room assessing student progress and providing feedback via the group and individual blogs. They are going well. I’m getting some time at last to start writing again! This time, it’s
Continue reading ...Sunday again, and no blog post for a while. For a second or two the “l” word entered my head, and was just as quickly booted out with the guilt trip. ‘Lazy’ I haven’t been since the last post, though a casual follower of my blog would assume I might have been. Perhaps a day
Continue reading ...Another intriguing, and free app which is creating some noise out there, is the Tumblog. You can read all about them at Tumblr’s own site. Some of the comment in the official Tumblr blog actually questions whether or not this is pandering to the verbally-deficient, but I rather think it is akin to dynamic scrapbooking,
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