Day 29 | something you’re listening to | #febphotoaday |

Day 29 | something you're listening to | febphotoaday |

I was listening to the S&L Podcast – #92 – The Lies of Locke Lamora Kick-off.

Day 28 | money | #febphotoaday |

Day 28 | money | febphotoaday |

Well, I had already planned from the start of the challenge for a still life shot using a collection of foreign coins for this one. Best laid plans? Yesterday ended up with an Ambulance trip and an afternoon of observation so day 28 shifted to; “Your health is more important than money”

Day 27 | something you ate | #febphotoaday |

Day 27 | something you ate | febphotoaday |

[Trailwalker] Tales from the trail – “Let’s go to Southbank for an ice-cream”

G’day folklings,

“Let’s go to Southbank for an ice-cream”. We had tried 2 years ago and were hailed out before we got there, so we had decided to try again.
The Main Yarra Trail follows the Yarra River from Warrandyte, through Eltham, and all the way to the city. From Eltham to Southbank is 34 km and relatively flattish. Distance, no hills, a good stretch of the legs while we don’t have Darren with us.

Then it started to heat up, each day the weather report added another degree to the expected temperature for Saturday. “Gwen, Frances, how’s your relationship with the weather man? If you ask nicely do you think he might cool it down a bit?” Well, that didn’t work so, plan B, start early and try to beat the worst of the heat.

We met up at 7 am, fuffed around a bit and were on the trail before 7:30. The constant call this week was “Bike!”, and occasionally “Runner!” when we would move aside to let them pass then spread out again afterward.

We walked, we talked, we admired the runners (particularly those 2 in blue who helped us when we weren’t sure which way the trail went), we played bingo: runner + cyclist + skater + walker = Bingo! And we eventually made it to Fairfield Boathouse where we had planned to stop for lunch. Lunch at the Boathouse doesn’t start ‘til midday so at just before 11 we were looking at the Breakfast menu. Eggs, bacon and sausage are obviously very popular for breakfast but not if you’ve just walked 19 km and it’s starting to get hot, so we ignored the many, many variations of the above theme and had pancakes with banana and ice-cream.

After lunch we continued along, passed Collingwood Children’s Farm, where we were hailed out last time, and made it to Burnley before the heat was getting to us enough to make us decide that, although we had less the 5 km to go, it was time to call it quits and finish up. Onto the train at Burnley into the city, then back out on the Eltham train and home to cool down.

Maybe next time we’ll reach that ice-cream.

Cheers, Tracy

Oxfam Trailwalker Melbourne – 100 km – teams of 4 – 48 hours
To read more about my team go to Team 672 : We’re doing what?

Music Monday #093 – Adele

After winning six Grammy Awards and taking the top prize at the Brit Awards, Adele has equalled Delta Goodrem’s record for the longest chart-topping album in Australia this century with her ten-times platinum 21.

Adele Laurie Blue Adkins (born 5 May 1988), better known mononymously as Adele, is a British recording artist and songwriter. Adele was offered a recording contract from XL Recordings after a friend posted her demo on MySpace in 2006. The next year she received the Brit Awards “Critics’ Choice” and won the BBC Sound of 2008. Her debut album, 19, was released in 2008 to much commercial and critical success in the UK. 19 was certified four times platinum in the UK. Her career in the US was boosted by a Saturday Night Live appearance in late 2008. At the 2009 Grammy Awards, Adele received the awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. …
– wikipedia

And now for some music …

This weeks links (2012-02-27)

In brief:

* The Raspberry Pi computer goes on general sale (2012-Feb-29) [BBC News]
A credit-card sized computer designed to help teach children to code has gone on sale for the first time.
The Raspberry Pi is a bare-bones, low-cost computer created by volunteers mostly drawn from academia and the UK tech industry.
Sold uncased without keyboard or monitor, the Pi has drawn interest from educators and enthusiasts. …

* What’s different about mobile learning? (2012-Feb-29) [The Learning Circuits Blog]
As the doors open to a new era of mobile learning and performance support, it’s a good time to step back and think about the new mindset required when designing for mobile.
Although a mobile pedagogy will continue to evolve, we already know quite a bit about how people use mobile devices and some of the advantages of mobile learning.

* Ky. school aggressively fights Twitter criticism (2012-Feb-27) [boston.com]
“Any institution that invests substantial effort into shutting down obvious parody accounts richly deserves to be parodied, because any institution with a good reputation for doing the right thing most of the time isn’t worried that obviously silly statements might be confused with its genuine policy,”

* Building an Effective BYOD Educational Technology Plan (2012-Feb-24) [Slideshare]
by Sam Gliksman
Schools are needing increasing amounts of expensive educational technology at a time when budgets are shrinking. Many have started to explore BYOD policies – Bring Your Own Device – as a practical solution to integrate cost effective technology into their educational programs. …

“Sweet roll explosion!”

Some reading/listening:

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Day 26 | night | #febphotoaday |

Day 26 | night | febphotoaday |

Day 25 | green | #febphotoaday |

Day 25 | green | febphotoaday |

Day 24 | inside your bathroom cabinet | #febphotoaday

Day 24 | inside your bathroom cabinet | febphotoaday

no cupboard, out camping

CPE#01

A few weekends ago those readers who also see my Twitter feed would have been overwhelmed by the traffic from a CPE#01 hash tag. It is now time to ‘spill the beans’ on this event so to speak.

I want to update you on some of our e-learning activities. Last Saturday we ran an e-learning event called ‘the Big Day Out’ for our students in CPE’s quantitative methods subject running over summer school.
The event was held in the Kwong Lee Dow Centre, we streamed live lectures and activities to a number students (8) around the world, we also had students attending the event in person (15) . Students online and in attendance were able to communicate with one another through the live stream and tweeter, students could see all the threads and discussions online through twitterfall. CPE now has its own twitter account!

The #CPE01 was one element of a workshop associated with an online subject run by the Centre for Program Evaluation. While a number of students who are locally based attended physically, others who are located across Australia and overseas attended online. The initial scope was for twenty people attending in person and approximately five participating online from different geographical regions.