Sprouting

I was sitting at my computer this morning checking emails and news when up popped a single Google Alert for CCK08. Today’s alert was for Malinka Ivanova’s post on Microblogging in Education.
I thought her post was a great example of someone investing energy in support of a community of practice (around Plurk and Twitter). (Shortly [...]

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The Human Condition and Moral Hazard

Last week I was working in the garden at Mongarlowe. It is a most wonderful place to think and reflect.
A story about Muhammad Ali started me off. I was fascinated with Angelo Dundee’s relationship with Ali and the insight he brought to a young person who became one of the most memorable faces of the [...]

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George

My last post on this blog was about George Oates and The Commons. I was very excited about what was being discussed in relation to national collections.
I was in the process of writing a post about moral hazard when I received Stephen Downes’ OLDaily with a link to Jeffrey Zeldman’s post about Yahoo laying off [...]

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A Flicker of Flickr at the National Library of Australia

This post started its journey with an email from Chris Gould (a member of staff at the NSIC, Canberra) to the AUSPIN listserv. It has developed into an expedition into tagging and accessibility.
Chris had attended a talk by George Oates (program manager for Flickr’s Commons project and former chief designer for Flickr) at the National [...]

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Using Learning Experiences to Improve Coaching Practice

Julian North has written a brief article for sports coach UK’s journal Coaching Edge (Autumn 2008, page 30). In the article he reports preliminary evidence from the UK Coach Tracking Study (information from 1264 coaches) on how coaches use learning sources and experiences in their development.
This is the table Julian produced to summarise learning experiences [...]

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