Nov

5

Disrespectful and Time-Wasting, or Engaged and Transformative? The Mile-High Twitter Debate

November 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Educause 2009
W. Gardner Campbell - Director, Academy for Teaching and Learning, Baylor University
Bruce Maas - Chief Information Officer , University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
@GardnerCampbell
An entertaining presentation,  all now playable here, a kind of semi-stand up between an alleged Twitter fiend and a CIO. It felt a bit like a wrestling bout  - all a little […]

Mar

2

Terena PR Task Force

March 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment

TF-PR 25-27 February 2009, DublinHosted by HEA Net in Dublin, this set of meetings followed on directly from the Geant gathering. Much of the first afternoon was taken up in a workshop centred around the issues on internal communications at an NREN level -  first describing how internal communications is currently carried out and then how it should […]

Dec

4

Online Educa 08- Michael Wesch

December 4, 2008 | 1 Comment

Dr Michael Wesch, Asst Prof  of Cultural Anthropology, Kansas State University, USA
The Crisis of Significance and the Future of Education
Clearly the fact that the hall was packed with people sitting on the floor means that many were here to hear Michael Wesch – an outstanding speaker – engaging, interesting and relevant. Ok maybe what he […]

Nov

12

Who Needs MSP When There is Dilbert?

November 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Courtesy of Dilbert  

Jul

18

A Portal to Media Literacy

July 18, 2008 | 1 Comment

There is a brilliant video (although rather long at over an hour) from the exemplary Prof Wesch from the Kansas State University Digital Ethnography programme, available like all else via YouTube as well
A wonderful summary of what is going on and a great expose of how new technologies are being used
He also mentions the portal/wiki […]

May

2

Oh Yes! That’s How It Is

May 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KWiuhDGCVs

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Feb

26

Mmm ?… Zagreb

February 26, 2008 | 2 Comments

Well a set of meetings in a ski lodge high in the mountain above Zagreb in high ski season sounded like it would be temptation too far (for some but not for me - a non-skier type) but as it was nothing but green grass and swooshing through leaves many were disappointed. The only snow […]

Feb

22

Renater to Host Events in Paris

February 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment

TF-PR Meeting – 21 February 2008
France will be hosting the European Research and Innovation Exhibition between 5 and 7 June 2008 at Porte de Versailles in Paris www.European-research-exhibition.com and the ‘European City of Science’ again in Paris in the Grand Palais between 14-16 November 2008. The European City of Science is being held to […]

Feb

21

AlphaGalileo

February 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment

TF PR Meeting – 21 February 2008
A short presentation about AlphaGalileo that is a web site for press information for European research. Seems to be a resource that journalists us and could be a potential channel for TF-PR outputs.

Feb

20

GN3 (Geant 3) Planning

February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Geant2 PR Group - 20 February 2008
Geant2 officially ends in August 2008 but will practically continue into 2009. GN3 starts around March-May 2009. There will be a requirement to make the PR work around GN3 more significant than with Geant and the NREN’s will be needed to collaborate more fully
Likely funding is around 90million […]

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