Missing the old Joey Coleman
I’m working on a story related to Oshawa continued anti-student posturing tonight. As part of my story, I’m reading all the coverage I did for *Maclean’s *and getting nostalgic. Erin Millar and I did an amazing job of covering higher education back in 2007 and 2008. She did…
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 write…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-12
@alexsevigny Spacing is a hot item these days, and leading the "community building" revolution for magazines. in reply to alexsevigny # @qui_oui yeah, Christmas parties are fun 🙂 in reply to qui_oui # @alexsevigny According to @qui_oui status, she’s at a CFS-O mtg. I’m working on my writing.…
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 as 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-Carlton1230 (0430EST) – interview with Dr. Abdulla bin Ali Al-Thani, vice-president education of the Qatar Foundation…
Responding to WISE questions from Twitter
@aratisharma asks: anyone recording the presentations?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 for unofficial recordings @davescrivener states: wow, its pretty business heavy and leans…
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…
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…
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 get…
Learning to love the opera
The following article was published in the Arts and Entertainment section of the McMaster Silhouette in June of 2009 Opera, just the word conjures up memories of Looney Tune cartoons with a fat lady singing and a bunch of old men with bad toupees; a false childhood stereotype…