DEANZ Keynote Speakers

The DEANZ Keynote Speakers have been announced. They are:

Nancy White (Full Circle Associates)

Nancy White — an international expert in understanding and practicing online group facilitation of distributed work, learning and community groups (presenter, writer, teacher, coach, facilitator, rapporteur).

and

Michael Barbour

Michael Barbour — currently an Assistant Professor at Wayne State University in Detroit,
Michigan.

Mark your diaries!

The DEANZ (Distance Education Association of NewZealand's) 2008 conference is coming up:

My Place, My Space, My Learning —
Distance and Virtual Education
Sunday 17 August — Wednesday 20 August
Te Papa Tongarewa, Museum of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand.

Keynote speakers are about to be announced.
Check out the conference site for the latest info.

The Book of Longing

The Book of Longing (Phillip Glass) was the only thing I attended at this year's International Arts Festival.



Interesting
Different
as they say.

You can here more about it at the iTunes Store (iTunes U/Stanford/Fine Arts/An Evening with Leonard Cohen and Philip Glass).

But you can't beat the real thing.

Event Planning

I want to do this
Typeshed11
and
this
SXSW
in 2009

Off Topic

Biked to Pencarrow lighthouse after work yesterday.



First time for AGES. And it took me about the longest time ever (without handicaps of stiff Northerly on way back, or husband). I have to please a slight headwind on way out & flat front tyre in my defense).

Saw lots of sheep, goats, a few fishermen, a couple of joggers & a few other cyclists.

I brought back a sheep skull for the WoWo project (of which more later, hopefully).

Anyway, need to do it a few more times to get up to speed for Wheels Beside the Water on 30 March.

E-Learning in the New Year

eLearn Magazine's predictions for 2008 are here

Webstock News

WebStock has also got CraftStock

Downtime — please!

A whole list of stuff to do in downtime is here at Freelance News.

Extra list item:

• Watch Helvetica, The Movie

Bembo, Bembo, where you going to go-e-o?

Kris Sowersby, a professional type designer from New Zealand has written about the dominance of Bembo as a typeface in New Zealand book design & some of the shortfalls of digital typography.

He talks about the difference between hand cut type for letterpress and how each font size had specific proportions and subtle variations and contrasts this to digital typography where 'one size fits all' and fonts are just enlarged to suit. He discusses how this affects especially Old Style fonts such as Bembo.
Why Bembo Sucks.

2008

A belated Happy New Year.

Back from holiday in Oz. Spent in Melbourne & the Barossa Valley & featuring a photographic 'study' of Aussie wildlife road signs. A selection of which here.