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Heed the tab count

Ria — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 23:23:33 +0000

When is it time to quit for the night?

“You are about to close 47 tabs. Are you sure you want to continue?”

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End of the Non-aligned Movement

Ria — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:24:36 +0000

First HDR photo using a tripod, which means no more caffeine-induced wobbly hands and blurred photo merging.

What do you think?

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Victim of my own success

Ria — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:46:30 +0000

After the summer break, I got busy setting up a new eLearning platform for our local university. It was an upgrade from a version I had introduced to a limited group of students last year, and offered lots of features for interactive learning with a sleek interface.

In the last two weeks, my colleagues and

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Come together

Ria — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 22:21:35 +0000

Ten days into the summer break and I feel a change coming on: no longer thinking about teaching projects and grading, my mind has been increasingly filled with personal geeky projects, driven in large part by the recent purchase of my first smartphone. I’m not going to give in to the boring clichés (it’s like

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Content still counts

Ria — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:44:35 +0000

The law of diminishing content

First off, a disclaimer: I love discovering and using new Web 2.0 technology and tricks. However, it sometimes seems that the people I would most like to share with are the least likely to use the technology; worse still, the people who tend to dominate new media are the

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A little light relief

Ria — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 13:35:52 +0000

We are just entering a two-week period of exams and already my desk is beginning to overflow with papers to grade and regrade. While invigilating one exam this morning, filled with familiar faces of students taking the same exam for the nth time, I was inspired (actually the opposite) to make a little satire of

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Student howlers

Ria — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:37:10 +0000

After several days of solid marking, I’m relieved to say that I have finished all 100 exam papers from my nursing students. On reflection it was too easy, some of the sections getting 100% correct answers in every paper; either that or I have exceptionally gifted students, or they have an exceptionally gifted teacher. :-D

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Wordle your scrobble

Ria — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 21:06:11 +0000

As if I didn’t have better things to do, including 48 assignments to review on Moodle, I got distracted — intrigued then captivated — by a nifty java applet to represent my Last FM recent listening into a wordle, or text picture. Here it is:

Image of my recent listening

Now back to the

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Hiatus interruptus

Ria — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 12:43:31 +0000

Since the start of classes in September, I’ve had very little time to blog. In addition to teaching and its concomitant demands, I’ve been getting busy with developing a learning management system (LMS) for the modern languages department. It’s based on Moodle, one of the most popular LMSs around, and offers almost infinite possibilities of

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Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’

Ria — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:20:52 +0000

Keep those wagons rollin’ …

Life is rollin’ on chez les Bacon — school’s almost out for summer, my contract at the university has been extended for another year, baby Didi is up and walking, and we interviewed a woman last night to come help clean for us, which of course meant we spent a

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