I should shortly be heading to China again to prepare for travel with my students over the Easter break -- the students seem quite exciting about the trip and during my preparations I'll explore one or two new places that we could potentially visit to help the students understand more ...
I was in Brussels for a workshop earlier this week. The workshop was about Asian management, with most of the papers having some China theme. It was great and has helped to reinvigorate my research interest. One of the nicest aspects was that there was typically about 30 mins after ...
I received an invitation to download and register with Sony's Home, a virtual environment not unlike Second Life that is currently in beta and works on the Playstation 3.
The beta is still very limited: you can define how you look and move through your apartment (everyone gets one), a central ...
A former student (and now friend) of mine is spending a semester in the UK as part of his PhD studies in Australia.
We met in Birmingham and wandered around a little to see the sights while talking about teaching and research.
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The cities in the English Midlands are useful places to ...
October 22nd 2008
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In my breaks and the odd evening, I have slowly been playing with Aperture some more to tinker with my photographs.
I covered the distinction between photography as documentation or journalism and photography as art in an earlier post (see here).
To match my rather grey mood, I have been reducing the ...
October 19th 2008
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I have concluded a couple of weeks of experimenting with multimedia to support my teaching and have come to some conclusions.
The most important is that, at least for my subject material, there are very limited learning benefits from developing teaching support resources beyond well structured web resources and podcasts -- ...
I have slowly been getting back into some experimenting with multimedia. Some of this has been prompted by my experiments with podcasts and subsequent attempts to think about adding supporting text and interactivity to them (all without spending 3 days a week to produce 10 minutes that will only be ...
One of the things I set out to do this year is to provide podcasts to support my students.
Rather than simply make the lectures available (an easy option), I have decided to create an extra weekly podcast to support reading and lecture preparation. My reason is that I know that ...
The last two weeks have been great.
I took at trip to Greece for a friends' wedding and managed to catch up with family and friends. The weather, food, beer and festivities were all fantastic.
The weekend just passed was a trip to Oxford for the alumni weekend and the first event ...
In my (precious little) spare time I have been experimenting with Google Maps and Google Earth.
Things have gone well, except for working out how to embed the maps into my blog posts.
Now, if you happen to be using Firefox (I'm not sure about Internet Explorer), below is a map I ...
