After a weekend of trying to make my old eMac keep up with the new Leopard OS, I took the plunge and bought an iMac. Not just any old iMac, but one of the new, beaut 24″ shiny screen jobbies with lots of speed and power … just like all the cats that Mac uses
Continue reading ...I maintain other blogs, private ones, for use with my acting students … as reflective places. Here are some extracts which chart the learning paths we’ve wandered in. A quote that keeps insisting it be heard … A character is the sum total of her inconsistencies. Living Dangerously and Impulsively In many ways, the approach
Continue reading ...The blessed Stephen Fry whom I adore, now writes a weekly column for the Guardian newspaper in the UK. I was thrilled to find that, apart from being one of the funniest actors around, he can also blog eruditely, and wittily (natch). And he has a Wikipedia entry. There’s glamour for you! The fact that
Continue reading ...It’s a bit of a catch-cry right now, this ‘time-poor’ thing. I’m pondering over my own state of being right now. Yes, it’s the end of the academic year in Australia, with all the attendant closures to projects: courses, exams, report-writing. Add to that the inevitable start-ups for 2008 looming on the horizon, and you
Continue reading ...It’s day 1, post 1 of the new site. So far not too many teething pains in the move from Blogger. However, putting images at the head of a post is not as intuitive or as simple as it used to be. Much easier in the old girl, Blogger. There you get a browse for
Continue reading ...Apologies to William Blake, but the delivery guy has just handed me my copy of OX 10.5 aka Leopard. Yes, it’s October 26th in Australia, and we have the big cat at last. Hubba, hubba … I could be gone for some time, or there goes the weekend!
Continue reading ...One of the audience members summed it up precisely. You should feel as though you have done a couple of rounds in an emotional ring after a good night in the theatre. This new production of War Horse at London’s National looks just the job: a boy and his horse, WWI, great puppets, and a
Continue reading ...Stumbled upon this vidcast from Canadian educator Dean Shareski given at the 2007 K-12 Online Conference. Dean’s nicely produced 25′ video discusses the importance of design in education. He’s even produced a teaser trailer on YouTube. Now that’s innovative! Dean roams across design principles introducing some innovative ways of thinking about classroom space as well
Continue reading ...I’ve been in blogland for months, have produced no podcasts, and I’m starting to feel withdrawl symptoms! I’m prepping for another couple of lectures in a theatre history course I share with a colleague. I’m itching to accommodate the new Keynote audio feature, but think I’ll stick with Garageband to produce the podcast. I’ve written
Continue reading ...Like zillions of other bloggers, apparently, I am exercising my mind on Blog Action Day. How can I make a difference in my niche area? Now this is a challenge. Will putting my class notes online, and not distributing via paper do the trick, or will my students go and crank them out anyway? Will
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