I’m often asked to comment on how I use Web 2.0 technologies, including blogs, iPods and podcasting in my teaching and learning projects. I presented on the topic a few times this year at conferences and a phone call this week from someone I met at the AUC Create World conference in Brisbane in late
Continue reading ...It’s been a great few days. The conference dinner (in the time-honoured way of conference dinners) got more of the chat flowing along with the sauvignon blanc and shiraz. It’s always good to make new connections … yes, social networking does happen outside FaceBook. I ended up having a couple of days getting to know
Continue reading ...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 ...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 ...Like zillions of other bloggers, apparently, I am exercising my mind on Blog Action Day. How can I make a difference in my niche area? Now this is a challenge. Will putting my class notes online, and not distributing via paper do the trick, or will my students go and crank them out anyway? Will
Continue reading ...I came across this neat way of taking notes some time back, but it’s come back again like a boomerang! Perhaps it’s the time of year when students in Queensland are starting to eye the calendar nervously. The jacaranda trees are putting out the first blue blooms … a traditional sign that exams are round
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 ...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 ...It’s day 28 of the 31 Days to a Better Blog Challenge and I’ve done the task of the day. Easy … easiest! ‘What is your blog’s mission statement?’ Now for an academic, writing mission statements is like shooting fish in a barrel (not that I have ever shot anything in my life). I added
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