Good Things : Brilliant Minds

As your probably well aware I’ve been of late following with interest the FOC08 course that Leigh Blackall has up and running using Wikieducator and  Google group as base.

You’ve probably also been having a look at the blog I built the other week there over at AUSETRAINING which Geoff and I are using to showcase great video’s using either digital stories or POV equipment ; both of which in some go a long way to ‘telling’ the story of what it means to be down on the shop floor doing good things with user generated video.

Today Sparker sent me a short Blip file which I’ve popped up into the AUSETRAINING site for a bit of a showcase and also sent me some leads to follow up on with respect to all things Moodle and so on - one of which is the ever expanding Kaltura video site.

Meanwhile have a peek at what Wayne Cavanagh is up to……..

AUSTAFE Conference

Friends & Colleagues

It’s a hard thing to distinguish between these days and in my area of work it’s an increasingly blurred line between one and the other.

I’d just like to acknowledge the kind and considerate actions of a friend and colleague Merelyn Treanor who last weekend took me out to the Orange, NSW Australia Botanical Gardens to have a coffee and a chat. As you may well know I’ve been with my leg in ice for the last two weeks on all sorts of pain killers after a second arthroscopy.

Merelyn brought me four books to read and some beautiful cakes and croissants which I devoured at midnight…on two occasisons. How fortunate I am in friends and how fortunate I am that my work colleagues at Western Institute have shown me the same kindness picking me up on the way to work and dropping me off at home also.

With Jane away in the countryside and a house to moan in all on my own it certainly has been a solitary re-cuperation but look at all the wonderful things I’ve had happen all in 7 days.

Thank you Merelyn & Mort & Sharon.

I truly appreciate your actions and your considerations.

Mobile Art

[ image : chrisjordan ]

I admire the dedication of artists like Chris Jordan who have a way of taking the mundane object and connecting with it’s ‘code’ - it’s social value inherent with all it’s complex juxtapositions.

Thanks LucyChili…a very cool find.