Thinking Out Loud

by John Lacey on May 18, 2013

The power of the Internet is at its most magical when people think out loud. But thinking out loud is not something that comes easily to most of us. We fear we’ll be judged harshly, or that our ideas will be stolen. Sometimes projects will fail to materialise. Sometimes we will fail, and to fail openly is to fail publicly. There are all kinds of vulnerabilities there. [Read More…]

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Do You Know These People?

by John Lacey on May 14, 2013

“These people you tweet,” she begins. “Do you know these people?”

I hear so many variations of this theme. I read an educator (on Twitter no less) say that it was important kids learned to negotiate ‘real’ — that is face to face, geographically close — relationships before they could be expected to make sense of social media.

But actually it is a fascinating insight. [Read More…]

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Most Outstanding Student

May 8, 2013

I have just returned from TAFE NSW – Illawarra Institute (Nowra Campus) Major Awards where I was fortunate enough to receive an award. I knew I had been invited to this event for some time but only found out tonight why. I received the Shoalhaven Business Chamber Award for Most Outstanding Student – Information Technology.

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Blog Categories and Tags

April 13, 2013

Cindy asked about what was more important in terms of blogging — blog categories or blog tags. Infact they are both useful ways of describing how blog posts relate to each other.

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Virginia Apgar’s Perfect Face

April 12, 2013

I loved that talk the first time I watched it. I loved it so much I watched it a number of times. On one Saturday night I did something very confusing with Virginia Apgar’s perfect face.

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Reinvention

April 4, 2013

Information is everywhere. Information scarcity is a thing of the past. The potential cost of all this information may be your time and your sanity, if not managed well.

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Permission To Suck

March 26, 2013

This isn’t the first time I’ve written this post. It probably won’t be the last time either. As a concept it is easy to express and understand, but as a way of living, of being — at least for me — it is a real challenge. I have to give myself permission to suck.

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TAFE Graduation 2013 Student Address

March 25, 2013

On 19th March graduating students from the Nowra campus of Illawarra Institute TAFE NSW gathered to officially receive their certificates and diplomas. I was asked to give the student address.

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Existential Crisis

March 16, 2013

I forget sometimes all the lives I have lived. All the things I have dabbled in. All the times I thought I was one thing or another, all the times I tried — and all the times, quite honestly, I’ve crumbled and gave up.

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On Replacing Teachers With Machines…

March 7, 2013

If I’m being completely honest I was quite surprised by the way my EDCMOOC peers responded to the Arthur C. Clarke quote about replacing teachers with machines.

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