Category Archives: BlogTalkDownunder

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

Glenn is a PHD student focusing on modified car culture, and his paper emerged from a blog post. The title is evental (the truth of the event based on ethics) of blogs. Two ideas, one to do with time and the other sense. From his paper there is a very interesting quote “The distributed networksContinue reading “Glen Fuller”