Category Archives: BlogTalkDownunder

Some of you might be wondering what happened to the first 3 speakers at Blogtalk Downunder, well the notes are on paper as I did not have my laptop up and running. I will try to document and post soon. Regular readers might also be wondering when the flood of posts will stop, today asContinue reading “Some notes and thoughts”

What people write on the blog does matter, Mark uses the example of the guy that was murder earlier in the month. The post was not very well written, vocabulary poor, but the meaning is only useful when we understand the context of the post. Aggregation does not give us this ability, or does it?Continue reading “Panel – Mark Bernstein”

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”