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Understanding Music Inside Out

Posted in Communication, Performance, Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on 30 April, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

After finishing my post on writing I had the opportunity to listen to an interview with Judy Carmichael.
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Judy is the host of the Jazz Inspired radio program. This program explores creativity and each week in the program  “celebrated artists discuss their creative process and how their passion for jazz has inspired their work. [...]

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Accidental Connectivism and the Impulse to Write

Posted in CCK08, Communication, Digital media, Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 30 April, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Writing has been on my mind a lot lately. Perhaps because I have been thinking about writing I am finding stimuli everywhere and everywhen. I realise that it may be that I am an ‘accidental connectivist’.
The most recent stimulus was George Siemen’s blog post Teaching as transparent learning. In the post George explores the idea [...]

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Memories and Overcoming Live Skype Problems

Posted in Coaching, Communication, Digital media, Networks, Teaching and Learning, tagged , , , , , , , on 18 April, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I was up early this morning hoping to have a Skype link up with some friends in North Wales at a Reunion dinner. Synchronising time after a clock change made some fascinating maths!
I had two Macs running and had tested cameras and microphones a number of times. A test run earlier in the day with [...]

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090416 Gleanings

Posted in Communication, Digital media, Networks, Stephen Downes, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 17 April, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Each week I become more and more fascinated by what we can share. Twitter has accelerated this process for me although this week I have not participated at all.
Earlier this year I intiated some posts entitled Food for Thought and aspired to write a weekly alphabet update of blogs. I managed two editions of the [...]

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World Digital Library

Posted in Communication, Digital media, IASI, Networks, World Digital Library, iif2009 on 10 April, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

It has taken me some time to catch up with developments at the World Digital Library (WDL). I missed this blog post from Lucinda Byatt’s World of Words but did visit the WDL website.
From the WDL website:
The World Digital Library will launch on April 21, 2009. … and will make available on the Internet, free [...]

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