Doh, here I go again! I’ve long believed the first axiom of teaching is ‘Take nothing for granted.’ Had a couple of hours lab workshop this morning on Macs with a third-year group of students. I’m teaching them how to use the apps and services available on the web to create their own online, digital
Continue reading ...I’m entering into a new phase, or “workflow” of projects right now. Mad Forest is playing out its season this week, so I’m in the room assessing student progress and providing feedback via the group and individual blogs. They are going well. I’m getting some time at last to start writing again! This time, it’s
Continue reading ...Sunday again, and no blog post for a while. For a second or two the “l” word entered my head, and was just as quickly booted out with the guilt trip. ‘Lazy’ I haven’t been since the last post, though a casual follower of my blog would assume I might have been. Perhaps a day
Continue reading ...Another intriguing, and free app which is creating some noise out there, is the Tumblog. You can read all about them at Tumblr’s own site. Some of the comment in the official Tumblr blog actually questions whether or not this is pandering to the verbally-deficient, but I rather think it is akin to dynamic scrapbooking,
Continue reading ...Cover of Mad Forest: A Play from Romania There have been very few posts to this blog for a couple of weeks, and for good reason. They have all been made to another (private group) blog of mine, which is currently charting the progress of work on a production with a group of acting majors
Continue reading ...Aha! A nifty new gizmo for embedding audio comment into a blog, or I guess, for simply creating an audio rather than a verboblog. It’s possible to publish on the main Gabcast site, or to have an episode uploaded automatically and a flash-player installed on Blogger and other blogsites. You can get a free version
Continue reading ...A busy month which has been very kind to me and my projects. The SiQP 2007 Festival has been a resounding success, so much so that the committee decided to put the 2008 Festival on sale immediately to build on the success of this one. Not sure that people will buy this far out; more
Continue reading ...A week at Hervey Bay with all that accompanies “time out of time” times. Sea, starry skies, warm breezes, among passionate, creative people doing what they love best … and now, back home–grounded, refreshed, feeling pretty damn good, and ready to work. I think some time back I wrote about taking time out, and it
Continue reading ...Spending the week by the sea at Hervey Bay north of Brisbane, where the Shakespeare Festival has put down roots for its inaugural season away from home. The week has been full of media calls, watching the set emerge again (like magic, but really with the effort and expertise of the technical production team) from
Continue reading ...This has been the first week back at work; the academic year has opened for business and I’m in the thick of it. As a teacher, so much of what one does, breathes, thinks about in business and the wee hours has to do with one’s students. What this year, can I bring to the
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