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 ...Update: In the 2 plus years since I wrote this post, live blogging during a conference presentation has been overtaken by the even livelier Twitter, which forms a back-channel to most presentations nowadays. Comment on the fly with hashtags makes following, interaction, and searching easier and the whole thing is much more dynamic. Twitter was
Continue reading ...There’s the talk of creativity in the air. Did it every go away, or is it just spring or serendipity that the creative play approach for educators is all around. My own presentation’s premise on Purposeful Play (at last week’s USQ 3rd International Pedagogies Conference) was reflected in a nice post Unlocking Teacher Creativity: a
Continue reading ...I spent the last day of the working week at yet another conference. How much of this can a girl take! USQ’s 3rd International Pedagogies and Learning Conference was held this year at the Springfield campus, in the outer Ipswich-Brisbane suburbs. This corridor is one of the fastest growing in Australia, and if the immigrants
Continue reading ...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 ...It’s actually Day 2 starting as I write this. It’s a glorious spring week here at the Gold Coast in Queensland. Lots of temptations to lure away the conference delegates, not the least of which is the gorgeous beaches … but! We’re here to soak up the good stuff, and that’s the usual round of
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 ...What kind of a title is this? Well, a few things that are floating my way right now are certainly worth mentioning … the possibility of winning a whole kilo (ye gods 2.1lbs) of chocolate in the 31 Days to a Better Blog comp. So I’m up for that. The other is learning more about
Continue reading ...Update: And, in the way blogs reflect the owner’s lifestyle changes, this one has since undergone a name change to reflect the blog’s subject matter – the increasing diversity of interests of the owner aka ‘the magpie mind’ New focus, new look, new name. I’ve gone all the way on this one. The URL remains
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