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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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A Fourth Age of Sports Institutes

Some time ago I started a post about my presentation to IASI in Canberra in March 2009.
I have a draft of my presentation at Slideshare. I am having some difficulty with the bandwidth available to me out at Mongarlowe and am still to add a Slidecast to the presentation.
It is a draft and will change [...]

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Point of Departure: Food for Thought 1.1 (W to S)

I have been away enjoying the Australian summer but I have been thinking about this post for some time. Last year I posted a list of the sites that nourish my thinking about teaching, learning and educational technology. During 2009 I am going to write about these sites as a synthesis of themes and links. [...]

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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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