Friday, May 16, 2008

Falling behind............

Don't know about anyone else, but I'm starting to fall way behind with my "things". I started to look at the wikis, couldn't get into the site and then other tasks took over. I've been to a whole day seminar in the city on "Second Life" and had 2 trips to Bass Coast in the last 2 weeks.
The "Second Life" day was run by Kathryn Greenhill from Murdoch University . You may have seen some of her stuff on the Librarians Matter blog.
I wanted to find out if we could have a "Second Life" presence but I've come to the conclusion that it would have to be a whole of TAFE sector project - not just VATL but a bit like the TAFEVC. So far I can't even log in at Chisholm - I believe that we don't have sufficiently high end video cards in our PCs.
It was a very interesting day even if the system did keep dropping out until we cut the bandwidth back significantly - it requires lots to run at full strength. another reason why we couldn't use it here at the moment.

Thursday, May 1, 2008

dig

I've now signed up for the "dig" podcast from the ABC. figured I might as well listen to something different - we'll see how it goes.
http://www.abc.net.au/dig/podcast/dig_rss.xml

I'm trying to keep up with all the information (well a little bit of it) that comes into my Bloglines feeds - some really interesting and some just to zip past. It's amazing how you can spend 10 minutes scrolling through stuff only to find new feeds there when you're ready to log out!!