CogBlogged Tagged ‘china’

In person, in reading, I’ve long been enamored ofBarbara Ganley‘s concept of “slow blogging” — rather than dashing off quarter-baked, unstructured stream of consciousness blogging, she suggests taking time to reflect, to actually re-read and revise in the blogging process. Barbara’s own lyrical writings, flowing like one of her tranquil Vermont creeks through red maple trees, thoughtfully illustrated with her own metaphorically rich photos, have long been inspirational to me and was capped even more by the chance to meet her in person at the May 2007 UMW Faculty Academy. I love the concept. I have never done such a crazy thing. My method might be termed “fast sloppy” blogging, writing at one end and not sure always where the end goes. I blog often directly from flickr based on a relevant (or not) photo. I do not spell well nor use words like “epistemology” without snickering at myself. No, [...]

How cool and fast is the net connected world? Last night I snapped a photo on my iPhone, uploaded it to flickr via MobileFotos app, and today it is part of a story on the Discover Magazine Blog: Last night, I guess I was at Mission Control in Mong Kok, Hong Kong, at a Korean restuarant: I had gone for dinner with my friend from here, Nick Noakes and his wife, and over the table top frying of spicy beef and bacon wrapped mushrooms and ribs and thin sliced steak and prawns and… , we looked up and noticed a rocket on the TV screen. I asked when it was lifting off, and someone said, “now!” And sure enough, up went the rocket, and off go 3 Chinese ‘nauts in space, to do some spacewalking and other stuff- see Shenzhou VII Liftoff. Great news day for China (despite snickering about [...]

What a Dumpling by cogdogblog posted 20 Sep ’08, 8.09pm MDT PST on flickr Just one piece of dinner at at JC’s restaurant in Shanghai It’s been a whirlwind week for my first visit to Shanghai (an Asia while I am at it) to participate and speak at the Learning 2.008 Conference at the Shanghai Community International School. The blogging has been light because (a) I’ve had more fun taking photos; (b) it was a busy 2.5 days of full on conference activity; and (c) and I seem to have come down with another travel induced variant of the CogDogWog that had me a year ago coughing like a barking dog across Australia. So like some of the scrumptious chinese meals we’ve had, like last night,.where dish after dish of steamed dumplings, stir fried meat, exotically prepared vegetables are plopped onto a giant lazy susan, here are a few random [...]

Jeff Watching Jakes film Brian by cogdogblog posted 18 Sep ’08, 8.54pm MDT PST on flickr Learning 2.008 EduBloggerCon (Shanghai) www.edubloggercon.com/Learning+2.008+Edubloggercon Before the opening of the Learning 2.008 conference, a group of conference attendees and other local bloggers met up for breakfast and conversation about out favorite topic. Not only were there pictures and conversation, Jeff Utecht was also ustreaming the session and the 20+ so remote participants who were rather active in being part of the discussions. Following this, I met up with Robert, a journalism teacher here at Fudan University, who was introduced to me by Pat Delaney, and we spent a few hours together over lunch and walking around the French Concession area, and discussing blogging, etc. In the evening, we ambled over to the Shanghai International School for the opening of Learning 2.008 http://learning2cn.ning.com/ conference with the 10 Minute TED Style talks– twas a fun series [...]

Curious Beggar by cogdogblog posted 17 Sep ’08, 5.16pm MDT PST on flickr This little guy was curious about the gigapan I had set up to do this shot gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=9189 I gestured to take a picture and he smiled, then he stuck his hand out for change. Now I was stuck, except the only thing in my wallet were 100 Yuan bills! I had to comply, so ran to a drink stand to buy some water to get him some change, He is kind of cute One of the more fascination aspects of being inn China has been watching people and their faces. Some of the faces are so somber, some so expressive. Without any understanding of the language, it’s fun to try and guess their conversations, as you see people laughing, arguing, chatting, playing games… Today was another wandering day in the city, taking a cab down to the [...]