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My catch of the day at the Huka Falls Prawn Park A new decade – a new start? It would be nice to be able to resurrect this space and do some “fun” writing again. The pressures of the last eighteen months have meant that, apart from tiny Twitter-bytes, I haven’t done any real writing about [...] My partner came home from school tonight with a story of the young ex-student who visited to show and tell a liver transplant scar and to thank her year six teacher (my partner) for the belief in herself that she learned just four years ago. She said my partner was the most memorable teacher that [...] This blog served as my online home for several years. After a few years using Pyra.com and then Blogger I realised that what I wanted in a website could be best served by a blogging system. I found Wordpress in August 2004 and have used it ever since. In the last couple of years I have [...] I’m just back from visiting a relative in a brain injury rehabilitation unit. My sort-of-sister-in-law had a stroke less than a month ago and although still unable to care for herself is making steady progress. Fortunately she has not lost the ability to speak (or her sense of humour). She has some great stories about [...] Friday saw a trip into town with Artichoke to see and hear Richard Stallman talking about Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks. RMS (as he likes to be known) was very engaging and spoke passionately about why there should be dramatic changes in global copyright law. The lecture theatre was packed to [...] And the very last post from my drafts folder is a sort of blog-oxymoron. For, perhaps, a brief moment in early 2004 there was a hint that blogging/social media/Web 2.0 was about big, world-changing ideas. But it very quickly became all about spewing out as much crap as you can. Quantity over quality. Fact checking? Who [...] I am always slightly uneasy about conferences. Although I enjoy meeting people and talking about stuff I find the whole thing to be altogether too huge and a little on the intimidating overwhelming side. That being said, there are some observations that I’d like to make about this week’s Learning at School conference in Rotorua. we have [...] I broke my own rules. A few days ago I signed up to Plaxo in order to synchronise my Outlook calendar with my Google calendar . My end goal was to be able to make my work calendar easy for others to see with the least amount of work on my part. OggSync was in the [...] I have enjoyed this week’s Ulearn conference. Ewan McIntosh was a refreshing keynote speaker (in content as well as accent!). I enjoyed his discussion about audience and authenticity and also liked what he had to say about the spaces where we exist. I want to think a bit further about something Ewan said about “death by [...] ”… remember, the brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there [...] |
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