This is less about the reasons why an app knows where I am and more how I/we are resigned to this as a new norm. And that yes, I do knowingly click the AGREE button to allow this to happen. I’m guilty. Yes, right now I am sitting in Australia. It’s beautiful. I have posted […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
In theory, their motto is about not doing evil, but Google sure does some smelly things that we can only guess at because of their opaqueness. Like giving favorable image search results to sites that obviously scrape content from other sites and serve it up as shoddy copies. I do a lot of searching of […]
Yikes! I’m in that sad position of back blogging… This goes back to last week, my very first workshop session for my ISS Institute Tour. This was for instructional designers, assessment specialists and educational technologists who work for the online arm of Chisholm Institute and held at their office in Dandenong. They had chosen from […]
One can only hope in life to be as cool as Gromit. Today I spent some time studying his friends and more at the ACMI Exhibit on Wallace & Gromit and Friends Thanks to Seb Chang whom I am meeting officially a part of my visit Wednesday, I got a ticket for the exhibit. It […]
Borrowing from a movie’s taglines the opening here might be “The time is just right for an out and out podcast like this” or “There are no rules and no holds barred when Antonio’s accent cuts loose!” Here is the first episode of a new podcast that Antonio Vantaggiato and I produced asynchronously collaboratively. TW […]
I’m vying in a contest on my own blog for least intelligible post title. The competition is thin. I introduced this word (and the same photo) (because at least people should enjoy the photo) in a talk this week on my approach of “doing it web style”. The audience had not heard the term dogfooding […]
