I’ve had a bit of a wake up call: I’ve become a work addict. Some of my recent blogposts have been turning over the issue of productivity which for me, means optimising the process to accomplish my work-related (day job) tasks with the minimum angst and within the minimum amount of time, and without sacrificing
Continue reading ...My promise in an earlier note on this theme … to note how I organise myself to best deal with the time I have … is haunting me. If I suggested that I had a definitive answer, then I lied. Right now I am the queen of the procrastinators. Why? I am dealing with a
Continue reading ...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
Continue reading ...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
Continue reading ...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 ...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 ...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
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