Oct
1
What should we expect of a keynote address?
October 1, 2008 | 4 Comments
Without question it should be inspiring, entertaining, thought provoking, and even leaving you feeling inadequate but promising to do better from here on. The speaker should be directly relevant to the premise of the event (conference). They MUST be a good public speaker with something to share. It should not an advertising session nor should [...]
Sep
30
Wikipedia by a real live wikipedian (ACEC 08 session)
September 30, 2008 | 1 Comment
“Teaching responsible use of Wikipedia
Taking an abstinence approach to Wikipedia is practically useless, so teach responsible and sensible use rather than ban. So what is it?
1. An encyclopedia a secondary source of information as a doorway to further digging and research. Houses featured articles.
2. Multi-Website: wikimedia; wikinews; wikibooks; wikiversity; wikisource; wiktionary; wikispecies; wikiquote; wikimedia [...]
Dec
13
ITSC’07
December 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment
The apple end of year technical event is well worth attending. Aimed primarily at beginner to intermediate level, the three days are a useful opportunity to spend some hands on time with some classroom useful applications.
