Author Archives: Michael Specht

Feels that the attention being paid to A-Listers is becoming obsessive, and they really don’t matter when talking about education. When you start to look for the A-list for a certain market they are not the “traditional” a-list members. (A great comment!) Authorship is a growing theme, do we all need a lawyer? Sebastian isContinue reading “Panel – Sebastian Fielder”

Different perspective due to his role as a politician. He sees blogging as a major mechanism for communication, business, social opportunities. The fundamentals are communication, the connection of people to people. This overall will help us to get to a point where we can all do social good. Be very wary of narrowing the channelContinue reading “Panel – Senator Andrew Bartlett”

Not from the education market he is a commercial guy. Interesting 4-5 years ago when he was hiring no one knew about blogging, but the last few people he hired they were hired because they were bloggers. In fact they came through the educational process, specifically at UTS. Aggregation is a major aspect because itContinue reading “Panel – Mick Stanic”

A major theme that has run through the two days is about getting students to blog for life. She look at how many educators were actually walking the talk of using blogs, meaning that if educators are not doing it then how will the students. She mentions a blogger in US who posts content aboutContinue reading “Panel – Rebecca Blood”

At the end of the two days at BlogTalk Downunder we have a panel discussion with 5 of the invited speakers, I am going to post each of the panellist’s comments separately in the interest of keeping things short. 🙂

Sebastian says that back in 2003 there was very little work being done in the educational arena, and now compared to today there has been a major amount of work/evolution around the globe. He moved through much of his content at a rapid rate due to time issues so some of this is very patchy.Continue reading “Sebastian Fiedler – Key note”

Katie started out lecturing in IT, then digital art and now English literature, she is involved in a project in setting up a blogging environment for all of the art students across Adelaide. Of interest this was her first conference presentation, she did really well. Her Mac would not connect to the projector and soContinue reading “Katie Cavanagh”

Some thoughts on why blogging is being recognised, they are an innovative cultural form:- it’s new It seems to be live (time stamped posts) Connected to a network A blog is also conservative, as the text is attributed to an individual author’s voice, it also generates cohesive narratives, the predictive nature also gives them authorityContinue reading “Chris Chesher”

Adrian’s work covers media rich and rich media courses at RMIT, his paper is not really a paper (his words not mine), and is written in TinderBox (which by they way is not a mind mapping tool but could be used as one). Blogs are granular in nature, the post is the smallest granular componentContinue reading “Adrian Miles”

Carol Cooper a teacher from NZ Lincoln University from Canterbury New Zealand . Her research was also conducted with Lyn Boddington covering an ethical case study on the use of blogs in course work. Of interest the course happened to be on an HR subjects within 2nd year business management, any interesting perspective given someContinue reading “Carol Cooper”