Ben is a student at UTS talking about the different areas of his life including his Post graduate studies, web design, community worker, activist. Specifically looking at the use of blogs within a refugee context while trying to address the different digital divide issues. StoryBox is about literacy, IT, English and public space, as partContinue reading “Ben Hoh”
Author Archives: Michael Specht
Gavin Sade
Gavin has been looking at constructive environments, that are low tech, low barrier to entry, and curious. His class is about contemporary issues in design and tech, he looked at blogs initially as another method of just writing essays. His students previously had marked each others work, so blogs seemed natural. Interesting he did notContinue reading “Gavin Sade”
Yuh Huann Tan & Eng Hui Teo – Singapore
Their paper is found at the web site, here is my summary. Both are secondary school teachers teaching Chinese language at Singapore secondary schools. There is a need for higher motivations as Chinese is not the first language, English is the official first language. Their vision for blogs is secondary schools is to be forContinue reading “Yuh Huann Tan & Eng Hui Teo – Singapore”
Ian MacColl
I lost, system crash (ahhh), the second session from Zenon Chaczko, that was on how blogging is being used in software development courses at UTS. Ian’s presentation was on some of the results from the usage of blogs in their IT course at University of Queensland. Ian was initially from a theatre background, went backContinue reading “Ian MacColl”
Mark Bernstein’s Key Note
Some notes from Mark’s very stimulating key note, I know I missed lots of information. Save the blogs, we have lots of blogs and they are now being talked about in big media and are being covered everywhere and as such now in danger. The blogosphere is an ecology, just like nature. Notes are likeContinue reading “Mark Bernstein’s Key Note”
HR-XML in Europe
From OnRec, the HR-XML Consortium is running some workshops in Europe in June, now if I could just get a ticket. They will be talking about the different standards that have been created such as SEP and SIDES, hopefully we can start to see some real traction here as the goals are very good, fromContinue reading “HR-XML in Europe”
Find, Use, Share, Expand
I was reading Jeremy Zawodny’s trashing of Google over their new MyGoogle service and Jeremy mentioned FUSE. Jeremy quotes John Battelle from back in April:- Weiner calls his vision FUSE (for Find, Use, Share, and Expand) and it’s an apt metaphor – using search to fuse a myriad of services and applications, all of whichContinue reading “Find, Use, Share, Expand”
Corporate Blogging and recruitment
Recruiting.com has a great post on how Corporate Blogging is a conversation, and not just a PR activitiy to create ‘spin’. They list a great summary of the types of blogs companies should look at:- Companies. You need a blog. Not a corporate blog, and not one. You need: Passionate employee blogs. You need: JobContinue reading “Corporate Blogging and recruitment”
mLearning
Something that is not from BlogTalk Downunder this morning, well kind of not. I was reading The Australian Flexible Learning Framework’s news item on mlearning in Australia. Some really interesting idea and statistics covered, such as in 2002 72% of Australian households had a mobile phone, and it is now estiamted to be well overContinue reading “mLearning”
End of day one
Just back to the hotel after drinks and dinner with many of the attendees from BlogTalk Downunder. The general feeling from people I spoke with was it has been a fantastic day. So many different points of view and the most amazing amount of research presented on blogs and their impact on society. Couple withContinue reading “End of day one”
Michael Specht 