The excesses of the Conference Dinner still fresh in mind, Day 3 began. After 2+ days of concentration, far too much coffee and eyes that started to pack it in from starting at screens small and large, keeping up with the sessions let alone blogging proved something of a strain. As I noted a day
Continue reading ...I delivered my paper Caught in the Web this morning. I think it was well received. I decided not to read it, but to take Keynote for a spin with a presentation that was heavy on visuals and light on text. I wanted the presentation to focus on several of the key themes my paper
Continue reading ...I’ll be posting daily from the AUC Conference at the Gold Coast, Queensland this week. At least until conference close on Wednesday. This is going to be a test of my own resolve. I imagine there will be a conference blogsite, probably closed to all but participants, and I’m not sure whether sessions will be
Continue reading ...I’m packing for the AUC Conference starting tomorrow. I’m packing anxiety too. Why? Because I haven’t done the killer Keynote slideshow to accompany the paper to be delivered Tuesday. So it was nice to re-read the marvellous Merlin Mann’s posting How I made my presentations a little better of some time back … and to
Continue reading ...I teach Generation Y on a daily basis. These are the so-called ‘digital natives.’ I see this latter term popping up all the time round the web, and I wanted to test how comfortable these Gen Y-ers are with the digital world. I have written earlier about my concerns regarding student digiphobia:My Adventure Continues or
Continue reading ...I am 2 years or so into intermittent blogging, but the past few months have seen me engage more on my ‘key’ niche blog with frequent, sometimes daily posts. I am far from being a pro-blogger, but I write about what I know and love. I’m also in full-time work, have many interests and a
Continue reading ...I am a big fan of TED Talks ever since I discovered them earlier this year. If you want to be inspired by a mover, shaker, thinker or doer in just about any field, check them out at the TED Talks page. TED stands for ‘technology, education, and design’ but in this video, the delightful
Continue reading ...The week started so well … a first-ever videopost, the 31 Days were over, tidying up time in blogland had began. What could go wrong for Superblogger? The word hubris springs to mind … me thinking I could use the learnings from the 31 Days challenge to leverage the build of a new blog I’d
Continue reading ...Now that I am a fully-fledged member (survivor) of the 31 Days to a Better Blog Challenge team, I am ready to build a blog based on what I have learned since August 1. I thought that this could be a good personal challenge for me. The last few blogs I’ve built were from the
Continue reading ...A frustrating day today struggling with a site that wouldn’t respond, and a much-admired open-source blog platform that gave me cause for thought and a stiff drink. Ning, a social network platform, set up to provide a discussion platform for a group, simply would not respond to request after request by me over the weekend
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