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I am attending the National Elite Sports Council (NESC)’s Forum in Canberra next week. In addition to the Forum web site there is a Ning site for the Forum. A link to the conference program can be found here.
I have the opportunity to present on Day Two of the Forum and I have been thinking [...]

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Momentum in Team Sports

Photograph by (Tres) descamarado (2006) (Flickr Creative Commons image)
A weekend of watching televised sport renewed my thinking about momentum in sport. I thought I might illustrate my post with some images from Flickr.
I think about momentum as a wave (perhaps from my reading of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi) and have been contemplating for a long time now [...]

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Uma Kanjilal: OER Movement in India: Major Initiatives and Challenges

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Professor Uma Kanjilal was a visitor to the University of Canberra today (12 May 2009). She will be at the University for two days and is making a number of presentations. Her first presentation, the subject of this blog post, was a discussion of the Open Educational Resource Movement in India.
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Food for Thought 2.1

I had hoped to add to my Food for Thought 1.1 post last week but events overtook me! I was thinking that by the time I reached Adrian Hill’s blog I would have written a Food for Thought 1.4 post. Instead I am at week two in the Rs.
In this week in review, Ruth Demitroff [...]

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Unpopular Culture

Program 2 of the ABC’s Not Quite Art program was broadcast on Tuesday 21 October.
This is a link to a Creative Commons Australia post about the program.
“This included footage from CCau’s conference and ccSalon in June, interviews with two of our featured commoners, Yunyu and Chris Denaro (don’t miss his exhibition at Metro Arts!), and [...]

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