I’ve been working with a team of students for the past 10 weeks on what we call a production project. It’s a period of engagement with a particular play with all of their classes, training, workshops, rehearsals etc., being focussed on the final outcome … a public production. The students are in their second year
Continue reading ...Image via Wikipedia Day 6 has dawned bright and oh so clear where I write. I’m a morning blogger and I have to say one of the things that gets my brain in gear for the day ahead is the ritual of good coffee with a look out over my valley and then some word-smithing
Continue reading ...Image by James Kirsop via Flickr I can’t get the lyrics or the tune of Kev Carmody and Paul Kelly‘s sweet and moving song out of my head. Why? Dr Kev Carmody, Australian singer-songwriter, raconteur and Aboriginal Australian activist was inducted as a Doctor of the University Honoris Causa at yesterday’s graduation ceremony for the
Continue reading ...Day 1 of the 31 Day Blog Comment Challenge is over in Australia from where I’m writing. I’ve picked up on the overnight posts which include the task for Day 1: A Comment Self-Audit. So … here we go Do I comment daily? Well … yes and no. I try to make it habitual to
Continue reading ...Image by pixiesticks23 via FlickrI got all excited this morning when I learned that Flickr have finally introduced video uploads for Pro users ($US24.95 a year). Yes, I know YouTube is free … but aesthetics as well as economics enter into the equation when you’re deciding where to host your creativity. Personally, I like the
Continue reading ...Image from WikipediaOne of my favourite sites is The Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies which contains a link to Jane Hart’s blog. Jane keeps a finger on the pulse of e-learning and she’s doing some great longitudinal research into who is using what tools and where. I’ve been signed up via her blog this
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I’m on holiday, so I’ve been playing with Animoto again today. I produced a short animated postcard on life around my place, here on a ridge in southern Queensland. It’s called Yarrawonga, which in the language of the indigenous people means ‘place of trees.’ I took the shots from the Project 366 set I’ve created on Flickr.
Continue reading ...I stopped by a PD session for educators online this morning. It was run via ustream.tv on the wiki site Open pd and was not without its glitches (sound drop outs etc but this is almost mandatory in sessions like this). This truly open, global professional development session demonstrated a very useful way for individuals’
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I wrote recently about good design and some of the aesthetic principles from the philosophy of Zen, and which inform my personal preferences. I wanted to list a couple of small tools which fit the bill in terms of ease of use and elegance. I find myself calling on them constantly for their convenience and reliability. They save time, and they just plain work. What’s more they are fine time savers with a purpose.
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Words and/or Moving Pictures
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