E-mail and xobni

I have yet to properly get my anti e-mail campaign underway on all fronts. I’m waging war on a few small areas. The tide is turning here, but in other areas, people are waging a counter attack.  Reminders about an event coming with full attached copies of all the documentation.  One irony is that the

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Engaged Learning

As a belief statement I think so called engaged learning is important.  I did the workshops in China in 2007 and once again had to face the fact of how shallow some of my thinking really is in this area.  Helen reminded me of this on Monday.  We were in the middle of a workshop

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WordPress and Themes

It’s not been as simple a process to get a new theme as I thought.  Here are a few random links I have traversed in the search for a good theme.

Essential Blogging Resources and Downloads. blogosquare.com/

Blog Tutorials www.blog-tutorials.com/category/design/

An aside, in one of my favourite themes: Cutline: University of Washington Academic advice blog

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Upgraded to WordPress 2.5

This was a suprisingly painless experieince, the first time I have done it completely unaided.  I have decided to not move over the themes: I will engage in a new theme search tomorrow and get some new ones to try.

I’d like a theme that

allows more pages, more content. is widget ready is easy

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E-mail & what can do it better . . cont

I have a well defined, high stakes, major project, with several members in the team, complexities around goals, timelines an politics: the Moodle trial.  A dead sitter for a better way to work.  I am going to find another way.

Week 8 with Luis on his “experiment, or initiative, at work where (he has) diverted

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We have our Moodle Trial

I’m really not sure how I feel at the moment, 6 days into our Moodle trial.  Surfing the forums.  A lot of them.  Just wondering where to delve in . . .

We need: timed release signups for groups [how can you have a supposedly constructivist enviroment without this?] student folders for files [ditto!!] better

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Taking a Free Day.

I posted a little about Dan Sullivan recently. I have just been browsing his website, wondering if it had anything on it about his ‘three day’ philosophy. There must be something there somewhere, but at the moment I cannot find it. However there is this link: on a Free Day.

Just what is a Free

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End of Long Dark Tunnel

Basically, I can now look ahead. Our UCTL integration is complete (except that they are thinking of moving our new buddies at the Learning Skills Centre further away and out of the middle of Campus), we have a website (nearly releaseable), the LMS review committee is moving along, we have a wiki to play with,

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The long dark tunnel

It probably should be the best time of year.  Trying new things, getting up and running for the year.

In fact, it’s not.  It’s largely firefighting, getting little things sorted in a less than decorous fashion, with the exception of Veronica’s project and Nicola’s Creative Thinking – it’s been a lot of business as usual. 

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