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Company Directors conference 2010 – day 1
I’m lucky to be attending the Australian Institute of Company Directors 2010 conference DIRECTORSHIP:10 Ahead of the Curve in Christchurch this week. Sessions today included: A recurrent theme is the…
The Digital Revolution and the Educator’s Dilemma
The digital revolution is already here and it is changing the way people expect to communicate or share knowledge and information. Educators are facing technology changes together with changing expectations…
It’s Caturday today but Mother’s Day tomorrow
… and these are not cats! Happy Mother’s Day for tomorrow 🙂
Libraries for the future
I spent most of my youth and childhood hanging about in public libraries and reading their books. In fact I blame libraries for most of my quirks these days, since…
TAFE Showcase – some cool use of technology in education
I love going along to the TAFE NSW Western Sydney Institute Showcases because they always have demonstrations of innovative uses of technology. It is great to hear practising teachers share…
ANZAC – a New Zealand view
A good example of the fellow feeling across the Tasman for ANZAC day and all that it means is the speech by the New Zealand Governor-General, Dame Silvia Cartwright, at…
ANZAC 2010 – Mapping our ANZACS
It seems appropriate this ANZAC Day to share a good online resource. Thus I commend to people the Australian National Archives site called Mapping our ANZACS. It provides a way…
What constitutes a well-lived life?
As I sat today during the funeral of a friend’s mother I pondered this question. Is it simply achieving great age? Is it leaving behind many who loved you? What…
Time to drop the social and the media from our lexicon?
I was reading the article If Every Company is a Media Company…Then Who Owns Social Media? after seeing a Twitter conversation between @DesWalsh and @Trib. The article author, Don Bulmer,…