DeeKnow’s Grotto

WmChamberlain posted some thoughts this week over in the “At the teachers desk” blog about the value of online conversations. I started a response which ended up being a post of its own, which I present for your edutainment
The online conversation attention problem worries me more than the asynchronous nature of the conversations that do [...]

I’ve had a pretty good history of local library use, priding myself on the knowledge obtained at relatively less cost than sponsoring a local big-chain bookstore. However my book reading habit has involved paying my fair share of fines to the point where I feel I’m almost owed an annual rates rebate from the Council [...]

Just now I was wandering back across campus to my office after another thrilling meeting and had one of those flashback moments. It’s a beautiful clear blue winters day in Hamilton today. It wasn’t quite a frost early on but its cold and still even now at midday. The suns shining and warming just [...]

Like most lads growing up in NZ at the time I played Rugby as a kid. At primary school we charged about in bare feet all through winter skating across thick frost with feet so numb you couldn’t feel them. At intermediate age and for the 1st couple of years of high-school I played club-rugby [...]