Dear Apple.
iTunesU should be something of an easy sell. However, iTunesU is not KeyPointDemoU or RacistJokesU.  You failed horribly at the Monday night seminar.  The prerehearsed to within a SteveJobsian inch of its life presentation was bordering on bad with the cliche mobile pulling over time as “students” in the video clips aptly repeated the [...]

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In a whiny voice, Newsweek complains about the Homeland Security agency attending a conference in Hawaii.  Sure, there are probably valid points, but this has to kill the article dead in the water for credible statements.
But that doesn’t mean Hawaii is picking up the tab for the federal officials. U.S. taxpayer dollars [...]

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On Monday, I have my bi-annual performance review - in 2006, I was tasked with publish two journal papers and a set of choices of a third journal or refereed chapter.
Since starting at ANU in 2006, I’ve published the following…
Chapters (4)

In press

Hughes, A and Dann, S. “Australia” in Lees-Marshment, J and , [...]

I’ve spent the day sitting in the same room as the man who developed the Higher Education Contribution Scheme (HECS).
It’s quite odd to be in the room with one of the people who most radically reshaped higher education in Australia.

Have laptop, will travel.
14 days after landing in Brisbane, this laptop seems like a part of me - and with the mobile wireless broadband, I’ve got the operational capacity to post, research, e-mail and goof off on Facebook from anywhere in Australia.
This is civilisation at its finest.
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(On the road again…)