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Entries from April 2009

09ntc – LiveStream session times [timezone friendly ver]

April 27th, 2009 · No Comments

Timetable for tomorrow’s live streams from the NTen Nonprofit Technology Conference. (with handy timezone conversion links).
Link to STREAM.
UPDATE:
More ways to participate in #09ntc live.
Causecast works well (left click on video window to start playing) about 40kb/sec
Live blogs using coveritlive (click on leftmost link under bloggers name, or hit coveritlive.com and search 009ntc for really useful [...]

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Tags: education

Making Work Experience more valuable

April 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment

This week I hosted a ‘Work Shadow’ student for a day and was inspired by an idea that might just help make things like work experience more interesting, engaging and useful for all concerned. I think the idea has particular merit for Universities seeking to reach out to potential students.
The basic idea: arrange activities that [...]

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Tags: education · uofa

Rip-snorter fibre optics talk Thursday evening Aug 9th

April 3rd, 2009 · No Comments

Professor Tanya Monro recently sent an e/mail to members of the Centre of Expertise in Photonics about a Rip-snorter lecture next Thursday evening. Turns out you can come too!
Dear all,
I am very pleased indeed to announce that we are hosting a seminar by Prof Philip Russell.
In case you don’t know, Philip is the godfather of [...]

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Tags: coephotonics · education · photonics

BRILLIANCE of ABC iView vs STUPIDITY of online store

April 2nd, 2009 · 1 Comment

UPDATEI’m staggered at the lack of discussion on either iView or that other nasty thing online, either in blogs or on twitter. Here are a few related posts:

How to record iView content
Caution: Videos from the ABC Shop are Defective By Design
Internode announcement (back in Dec 2008)
Minister’s office responds Re ABC shop DRM

OK, so I six [...]

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Tags: ccdrm