cogdog on This might set my dubious record of the longest post to get around to writing, but it’s important (to me) as the fitting close to my month of November Down Under. That image at the top of the post represents the peaceful view from the back deck of Kate Bowles‘ home in Thirroul, New South […]
cogdog on Yikes, I am a month behind in blogging. I loathe back blogging. No one, of course really cares. Well I do. But the rest of my trip on Australia, the part following the part of the trip for the ISS Institute fellowship are needing this reflection. I could have zipped home after my two weeks, […]
cogdog on How quickly this time went, this workshop represents the last stop on my ISS Institute circuit. It was also the most distant travel. Sigh, this is back blogging, I loathe loathe loathe back blogging– this is from the workshop done November 22, 2017. I should have known better, back from my 2000 visit to Albury […]
cogdog on My last night in Melbourne was partly spent on the dramatic 37th floor view of the city from the KPMG building, this being a special evening to honor the International Specialised Skills Institute Fellowship Awards Ceremony. I should add that this is their 27th year of awarding this fellowships, and still, few colleagues I met […]
cogdog on My first session for my last week of ISS Institute visits was the Centre for Adult Education, which as I read their web site, has been providing adult education programs since 1947 and is associated with Box Hill Institute. More importantly, for sake of getting to the workshop location, I already had seen that building […]
cogdog on Were it not for twitter, which apparently is a sewer, and the internet itself, which is broken and even failing it’s founding father, I would not have spent an afternoon making paper arts, playing swivel tennis, with a friend and his family on the other side of the world. Totem Tennis Championship – LIVE pic.twitter.com/vnqvqqGebw […]
cogdog on They asked for this workshop, so they got it. “They” are Adult and Community Education Victoria (ACEVic) and organization of community centers that offer adult education and training in communities around Victoria. My audience consisted of the CEOs of several centers. And yes, they were interested in memes and GIFs. The location was the Yarraville […]
cogdog on Add an “X” to that photo… ACMI is a major museum on the center of it all at Federation Square, in Melbourne. It’s not a “film” museum, note that it’s name is the Australian Centre for the Moving Image. That’s smart. How I ended up there for an afternoon last week is a story in […]
cogdog on I’m very fortunate that the International Specialised Skills Institute organizers of my speaking schedule suggested visiting The Song Room. The Song Room is a national not-for-profit organisation that brightens the futures of Australia’s most disadvantaged children with tailored, high-quality music and arts programs, delivered in partnership with schools across the country. Their work is both […]
cogdog on Last Thursday, November 9, was a full workshop day at Chisholm Institute in Cranbourne, more than a few clicks south of Melbourne city proper. I was fortunate to have energetic groups for both morning and afternoon workshops. The topic in the morning was Finding the Affordances of Digital Media– it’s the tagline that gives it […]