Recent reads - 13 Dec 09 - Part I

A couple of months ago, I experimented with Delicious in an attempt to share what I’m reading with others. I kept up with it for a few weeks, got busy, and never returned to updating the bookmarks. Now that I’m finally rebuilding joeycoleman.ca, I need something to…

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-12

* @alexsevigny [http://twitter.com/alexsevigny] Spacing is a hot item these days, and leading the "community building" revolution for magazines. in reply to alexsevigny [http://twitter.com/alexsevigny/statuses/6372359863] # [http://twitter.com/JoeyColeman/statuses/6377629489] * @qui_oui [http://twitter.com/qui_oui] yeah, Christmas parties are fun 🙂 in reply…

Why the lack of posts and tweets from WISE 09?

A few people have emailed me to ask why there hasn’t been much communication from me during the conference. There are a couple of reasons. the primary reason is that I’m busy trying to learn as much as I can from as many people that I can. The…

WISE 2009 - Day Two

Good morning from Doha, It’s 0900hrs local time (GMT+3) and I’m well into my second full day in Qatar. Today’s agenda is as follows: 1000 (0200 EasternTime) – depart for conference at Ritz-Carlton 1230 (0430EST) – interview with Dr. Abdulla bin Ali Al-Thani, vice-president education of the Qatar…

Responding to WISE questions from Twitter

@aratisharma asks [http://twitter.com/aratisharma/statuses/5772034808]: anyone recording the presentations?f Response: Yes, I’m told the panel discussions are recorded. All official media is being uploaded to the Press Room section of the WISE website: http://www.wise-qatar.org/en/newsroom I will keep an eye out…

Canadians at WISE 09

The following list of Canadian delegates to the WISE 09 conference was provided to me. There are many familiar names for those of you who follow Canadian post-secondary education, and a lot of unfamiliar names as well. You may, like me, find the number of people involved with Aboriginal/Inuit…

First World Innovation Summit for Education - intro post

This is my first post from the World Innovation Summit for Education in Doha, Qatar. As most of my readers are in Canada and the Northeast United States, much of my “live” blogging will be read hours after the events. The time difference between Doha and the Eastern Time Zone…

Put down your Blackberry and focus on driving

Today, I was crossing the street in Toronto with the right of way at an on-demand streetlight. Luckily, I was paying attention because a person driving an SUV wasn’t. They ran the red-light. Why? Due to the fact they were busy playing with their Blackberry. Guess they didn’t…