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Getting a presentation together

The AUC Create World Conference looms! I’m looking forward to this one which kicks off Sunday night November 25 in Brisbane at Griffith U and runs through to November 28. I’m presenting on what I’ve called ‘Permanent Beta’ as it applies to keeping up with the whole Web 2.0 thing as an educator. I’m going

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Blogging? Certainly. Step right in.

AUC Create World is back. Griffith University in Brisbane is hosting its annual create and share fest for Apple digital arts practitioners and scholars from November 25-28. I’m presenting and taking part in a panel, so I’m going to be busy in the nicest way for a few days. I love Create World which brings

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Metablogging: surfing a trend wave

As a blogger, you know you’re in the middle of something big when every second site seems to be about blogging. Oscar Wilde, who seemed always to have something pithy to say about social behaviour, once noted that ‘a young woman needed to have something sensational to read on the train.’ He was referring to

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Mr Fry Rocks My World

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

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The Time-Poor Academic Part 1: a seasonal story

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

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Welcome or Welcome Back

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

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Leopard, leopard burning bright …

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!

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