katielou

May 2009



blogging at 95

Saturday, 30 May 2009 9:34 P GMT+01
I found out about this - the granny who was perhaps the oldest blogger - after the event, from all the news coverage over Maria Amelia's death, and am a little sorry that I never read about it before. This last post by the family has now been tr
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Art Box and the art of taking pictures

Saturday, 30 May 2009 9:16 P GMT+01
(or, I should blog more about my second life part two!)Second, a particularly groovy art place, 'Art Box' (slurl) which lets you take part in famous paintings. Thanks @graymills for sending me in their direction, where I screamed along with M
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Re-post from work :-)

Saturday, 30 May 2009 9:14 P GMT+01
At the end of April, over 120 people came together from the region and further afield to an event hosted by the Regional Support Centre at the University of Sunderland on Second Life and education "Learning in Virtual Worlds". (Follow this
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I really probably should blog in SL separately...

Saturday, 30 May 2009 8:58 P GMT+01
First, an update to my earlier post on the SLanguages.net conference. That's two presentations I've given in the last 2 months being videoed (the first I'll post in its totality in a moment), but rather differently. The presentation I ga
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more 3D pics

Saturday, 30 May 2009 7:31 P GMT+01
These are as good as the ones painted on the road - a set of trompe l'oeil on buildings . Amazing. Have no idea how they do it, but they look fantastic.
Katielou

no pain, no gain?

Thursday, 21 May 2009 6:50 P GMT+01
We often say that, usually when we are grimacing en route to the gym or some such. I've just found an alternative which has touched me. I'm at home grabbing a few minutes peace and quiet before going out again, reading a little bit more of Wi
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picturing forgiveness

Tuesday, 19 May 2009 11:39 P GMT+01
I'm doing a course on forgiveness (no sarky comments, thanks) and tonight the last portion of the session was a series of images of the story of the Prodigal Son from Luke's gospel. There were 26, so it was impossible to discuss a whole class
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to podcast or not to podcast

Thursday, 14 May 2009 10:48 P GMT+01
Had a very interesting discussion this afternoon about podcasting sermons. It's not uncommon any more, but it isn't done in Durham. I would have thought that people would be concerned about the technicalities of podcasting, but less concerned
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speaking at slanguages2009

Thursday, 7 May 2009 12:45 A GMT+01
Suddenly realise am almost nervous about my first inworld presentation at the SLanguages.net conference on Saturday. Also that I must write a vague text for the presentation to be available in the speakeasy, eek. Also (#2) I hate timezones, so I *thi
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