Biddyjournal

2012-01-19T16:55:00.002+11:00

Iwaidja Ngabi Inyman from Bruce Birch on Vimeo.

Iwaidja is a highly endangered language of Northwestern Arnhem Land Australia. In this short film, Joy Williams Malwagag talks about how it feels when your language starts to disappear.

A great ad!

2011-07-04T16:21:00.000+10:00

Parable of the unwelcome strangers

2011-06-20T10:58:00.001+10:00

Parable of the unwelcome strangers - Eureka Street

A video of this famous feminist work

2011-06-16T16:34:00.001+10:00

Andrew Harvey: Rumi scholar

2011-06-03T11:50:00.001+10:00

The 'Malaysia' Solution?

2011-05-23T10:54:00.001+10:00

Back to Flipping: INSIDE

2011-02-04T16:14:00.002+11:00

Voki 2: With My Voice

2011-02-04T12:53:00.001+11:00

Playing with VOKI: February 4 2011

2011-02-04T12:21:00.002+11:00

This voice was mechanically produced from written text.

St Kilda Mural

2011-01-20T16:07:00.005+11:00

This mural is protected by Bunjil, the eagle.

Its outspread wings span the top.

Nicholas Carr:The Shallows

2010-11-27T15:05:00.001+11:00

In this interview, Nick discusses his new book "The Shallows"

and whether the Internet is making us trite.

Clay Shirky: How social media can make history

2010-11-27T13:14:00.003+11:00

Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs

help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news,

bypassing censors (however briefly).

The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.

Clay Shirky: How Cognitive Surplus will change the world

2010-11-27T13:12:00.001+11:00

Clay Shirky looks at "cognitive surplus" --

the shared, online (generous) work we do with our spare brain cycles.
While we're busy editing Wikipedia, posting to Ushahidi (and yes, making LOLcats),
we're building a better, more cooperative world.

An ode in song

2010-08-19T18:26:00.002+10:00

Professor Ian Lowe’s (President, ACF) absolute ripper of an ode to failing leadership on "the greatest moral issue of our time", thanks to http://www.live.org.au.

http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2010/08/ssw_20100807_1258.mp3

Kids welcome asylum seekers

2010-06-18T17:05:00.002+10:00

To mark UK Refugee Week in June 2006, media co-op and Oxfam launched 'Primary', a video that brings a fresh perspective to the issue of asylum.

"Kids welcome asylum seekers. When will grown-ups catch up?"

Have your say: www.oxfam.org.uk/ukpovertypost

Nic and Bach at Hermannsburg

2010-06-13T11:48:00.000+10:00

Autumn Ivy 2010

2010-06-03T13:22:00.002+10:00

Blessed are the peacemakers

2010-04-24T19:06:00.007+10:00

Tubwayhun lahwvday shlama dawnaw(hie) dalaha nitqarun. (The language is Aramaic.)

'Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.'

All the major traditions that arose from the Middle East, that is, Jewish, Christian and Islamic have their roots in the same source, the same Mother Earth and probably from the same language. They are believed to have all originally called God either El or Al which means that the One or that One which expresses itself uniquely through all things. From this root arises the sacred names Allaha (aramaic) Allah (Arabic) Elohim (Hebrew), and Elat (Old Canaanite).

(Above translation from Prayers from the Cosmos, Meditations on the Aramaic words of Jesus translated and with commentary by Neil Douglas- Klotz.)

Making more room for women in the Church

2010-02-26T15:26:00.001+11:00

Making more room for women in the Church - Eureka Street

An interview with American Benedictine nun, Joan Chittister...

PS 22 Chorus

2010-02-13T09:31:00.003+11:00

The PS22 Chorus is a children's choir of 60 kids from a New York City public primary school.

Women-only food lines in Haiti

2010-02-02T14:54:00.002+11:00

Source:

http://feministphilosophers.wordpress.com/2010/02/01/women-only-food-lines-in-haiti/

Death of Mary Daly

2010-01-11T20:12:00.003+11:00

"I think she was a central figure for the feminist movement in the 20th century, and hopefully beyond," said Robin Morgan, who edited Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings From the Women's Liberation Movement. "She had a fierce intellect and an uncompromising soul that sometimes gave even her most loving friends indigestion, but it was worth it. She redefined the parameters of philosophy. She called herself a feminist philosopher, and she really was -- she was the first.''

For more, see:

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?n=mary-daly&pid=138207379

Summer 2009-10 ivy

2009-12-30T12:52:00.000+11:00

2009-11-02T15:45:00.004+11:00

The Melbourne Millennium Chorus sings part of the winter concert series 'Our Home is Our Land' presented in Melbourne and Frankston in 2009.

The DVD of the concert series will be available at the launch on Nov 15th 2009. For more information, go to www.boite.com.au

The Boite 30th Birthday Concert

2009-11-02T15:29:00.006+11:00

Excerpts from the 2009 DVD featuring World Music artists from Melbourne performing at the National Gallery of Victoria to celebrate the 30th anniversary of The Boite.

DVD available at The Boite. For more information, visit http://boite.com.au/

Filmed, recorded and mixed by Harry Williamson at Spring Studios, Melbourne.

St Kilda Vege Out Community Garden October 2009

2009-10-20T17:21:00.004+11:00

The music, 'That's What I Like About You',

comes from www.freeplaymusic.com.

My artist friend at work

2009-10-20T13:46:00.003+11:00

As It Is Written: An Exhibition

2009-10-08T11:37:00.005+11:00

The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco presents As It Is Written: Project 304, 805, an exhibition centred around a soferet (a professionally trained female scribe) who will, while on public view from October the 12th, write out the entire text of the Torah over the course of a full year.

It begins with parchment, ink, a hand-sharpened feather quill, and a scribe who states out loud the intention to write a Torah scroll , the most holy and important object in Judaism. One year, 62 sheets, 248 columns, 10146 lines and finally 304, 805 letters later, it is written.

http://thecjm.org/index.php?option=com_ccevents&scope=exbt&task=detail&oid=43

Second Flip trial

2009-09-25T16:43:00.000+10:00

My first video made with my new Flip

2009-09-24T19:51:00.005+10:00

St Kilda Garden, Spring 2008

2009-09-21T14:27:00.001+10:00

Another Spring is with us...

Voxopop: Your dream of e-learning?

2009-09-15T20:18:00.010+10:00

Discussion Topic:

Your dream of e-learning?

VOXOPOP encourages discussions

around topics of your choice.

Shared via AddThis

Image:

Clker.com

public domain royalty free clipart

Quench-fires

2009-09-02T10:54:00.006+10:00

This illuminating article by Gillian Bouras
comes from today's online magazine 'Eureka Street':
Lessons from Greek and Australian 'quench-fires' - Eureka Street

Shared via AddThis

Ramadan 2009

2009-08-28T16:16:00.008+10:00

A link to 39 superb photos of Ramadan

from around the world

on The Boston Globe's online site.

Ramadan 2009 - The Big Picture - Boston.com

Charter for Compassion

2009-08-28T15:50:00.009+10:00

Charter For Compassion from ben kaufman on Vimeo.

Recently Karen Armstrong has moved beyond her role as acedemic observer of religion to become an advocate for inter-religious dialogue.

Sunflowers 2009

2009-08-26T18:00:00.006+10:00

Especially on a wintry Melbourne day,

sunflowers make me smile...

I love TinyURL

2009-08-18T10:29:00.001+10:00

Suesy Circosta

2009-08-16T12:33:00.006+10:00

My friend Suesy Circosta has an exquisite website at http://www.suesycircosta.com.
Above is a sample of her work as a community artist.

Stages of my icon

2009-08-15T18:04:00.006+10:00

From Collages

This collage was made in Picasa.

WE LEARN

2009-08-12T12:04:00.003+10:00

WE LEARN (Women Expanding Literacy Education Action Resource Network) is a community promoting women's literacy as a tool that fosters empowerment and equity for women.

Academic Earth

2009-07-20T16:47:00.006+10:00

Today, after reading about it in 'The Age' Education section, I visited Academic Earth, 'a peek into the classrooms of leading American universities'. This video shows Christine Hayes from Yale giving her first lecture of three on 'An Introduction to the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible)'.

Other online courseware sites mentioned were ITunes U, OpenCourseWare Consortium, ResearchChannel and You Tube EDU.

Windows Live Writer Test

2009-07-11T11:48:00.002+10:00

The table set for the Betrothal Party...

I posted this from Live Writer.

Bottle brush in August

2009-06-25T16:35:00.001+10:00

My first Ning site

2009-06-18T20:04:00.002+10:00

Visit CLASSY CRONIES

iGoogle - Sacred Sites

2009-06-18T14:28:00.001+10:00

Thresholds

2009-03-31T15:27:00.003+11:00

Find more videos like this on ACE e-learning network

I made this video some years ago to evoke some of the adventure and wonder of exploring e-learning or any new world.

The power of 'e'

2009-03-17T17:11:00.005+11:00

The power of 'e'

View more presentations from deliab.

This is the slideshow for my presentation at the 'E-learning showcase' this coming Friday morning, the 20th March, in Melbourne.

A 'Wordle' composition

2009-02-18T18:14:00.002+11:00

House parties for Obama

2008-12-09T11:36:00.000+11:00

Ning member badge

2008-12-04T11:29:00.004+11:00

View my page on ACE e-learning network

Cover It Live

2008-11-25T17:36:00.003+11:00

For live coverage of an event...

Susan Greenfield: The Quest for Identity

2008-09-19T15:24:00.003+10:00

Yesterday, I went to hear Susan Greenfield speak at the State Library of Victoria. Her latest book is ID: The Quest for Identity in the 21st Century. She posed the question: Is individual identity in crisis? In other words, instead of being SOMEONE or ANYONE, could we be heading towards being NO-ONE? In exploring these questions, she differentiated between 'People of the Book' and the 'People of the Screen'. To explain the latter, she listed the effects of screen culture on thinking, identity and risk-taking. She believes that an emphasis on sensory stimulation and sensational fragments leaves little room for a continuous narrative, a characteristic of book culture where cognitive meaning-making develops a conceptual framewok for navigating the world. She sees a focus on creativity as vital for the future...

Two of many reviews of her book and ideas can be found at:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/may/31/scienceandnature.society

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article3901315.ece

Delia's family

2008-09-16T14:45:00.004+10:00

Here is Delia's family, photographed in 1907.

My father is the youngest child,

sitting on his father's knee.

Homage to Delia Bannon

2008-09-15T11:16:00.005+10:00

I am back writing letters to Delia Bannon,

my Irish Grandmother.

This fuzzy photo was taken in 1912.

I love it.

The fountain is flowing again

2008-09-13T17:46:00.003+10:00

First sign of Spring 2008

2008-09-12T11:49:00.002+10:00

I took this photo yesterday,

at the entrance to my upstairs studio.

It is the first leaf on the vine.

Thirst

2008-09-06T10:46:00.002+10:00

This is an educational Slideshare presentation made by Jeff Brenman exploring humanity's water use.

THIRST

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: design crisis)

Organ Pipes National Park

2008-09-04T17:19:00.001+10:00

Mildura sculpture

2008-09-04T16:58:00.000+10:00

Russian icon

2008-09-02T18:09:00.004+10:00

Many scholars consider Rublev's Trinity

the most perfect of all Russian icons

and perhaps the most perfect of all the icons ever painted.

I prefer to call it 'The Three Graces'.

clipped from http://www.rollins.edu/Foreign_Lang/Russian/trinity.html

The Anthroplogy of YouTube

2008-08-10T19:14:00.002+10:00

This was presented by Michael Wesch at the Library of Congress, June 23rd 2008. It is 55 minutes long and WELL worth a look.

Society hard-wired for a fall?

2008-06-18T16:21:00.006+10:00

Peter Wilson, Europe correspondent
The Australian
June 14, 2008

Here is a sample of an article on Susan Greenfield, ‘a passionate advocate for taking science to the masses’. It can be read as a companion article to my previous post:

People who spend many hours a day in front of computer screens and televisions, she warns, are going through an unprecedented process in which the brain is churning out and consuming excessive amounts of a natural chemical called dopamine. Other brain scientists agree that heightened levels of dopamine could produce important changes in the fine wiring and functions of the brain, suppressing certain types of more sophisticated thinking.

The hard scientific evidence is limited but Greenfield believes the result of all that screen time and addictive dopamine will be the biggest physical changes to the human brain since the Neanderthals 100,000 years ago, producing changes in behaviour and thought patterns that amount to nothing less than a different type of person.

Older generations - she describes them as "the people of the book" - have developed powers of imagination, empathy, context and meaning which she fears will be much reduced in "the people of the screen".

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23858718-28737,00.html
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Is Google making us stupid?

2008-06-18T15:50:00.008+10:00

Nicholas Carr
Atlantic Monthly
July/August 2008

Here is a sample of this extremely important article subtitled 'What the Internet is doing to our brains':

Thanks to the ubiquity of text on the Internet, not to mention the popularity of text-messaging on cell phones, we may well be reading more today than we did in the 1970s or 1980s, when television was our medium of choice. But it’s a different kind of reading, and behind it lies a different kind of thinking—perhaps even a new sense of the self. “We are not only what we read,” says Maryanne Wolf, a developmental psychologist at Tufts University and the author of Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain. “We are how we read.” Wolf worries that the style of reading promoted by the Net, a style that puts “efficiency” and “immediacy” above all else, may be weakening our capacity for the kind of deep reading that emerged when an earlier technology, the printing press, made long and complex works of prose commonplace. When we read online, she says, we tend to become “mere decoders of information.” Our ability to interpret text, to make the rich mental connections that form when we read deeply and without distraction, remains largely disengaged.

Reading, explains Wolf, is not an instinctive skill for human beings. It’s not etched into our genes the way speech is. We have to teach our minds how to translate the symbolic characters we see into the language we understand. And the media or other technologies we use in learning and practicing the craft of reading play an important part in shaping the neural circuits inside our brains. Experiments demonstrate that readers of ideograms, such as the Chinese, develop a mental circuitry for reading that is very different from the circuitry found in those of us whose written language employs an alphabet. The variations extend across many regions of the brain, including those that govern such essential cognitive functions as memory and the interpretation of visual and auditory stimuli. We can expect as well that the circuits woven by our use of the Net will be different from those woven by our reading of books and other printed works.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google

HOPE

2008-06-12T11:03:00.013+10:00

Hope is a film that documents the fate of the people-smuggling vessel SIEV-X and the 353 people who died when it sank en route to Australia. Here is the link to the official website: http://www.hopedocumentary.com.au/hope/index.htm

For the past three years Steve Biddulph has been working to build a suitable memorial in Canberra for victims and survivors of the SIEV X sinking. The photo above that shows a few of the 353 memorial poles is taken from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIEV-X#SIEV_X_Memorial

The Medieval Imagination

2008-05-30T15:17:00.009+10:00

There has been a a marvellous series of free lectures at the State Library of Victoria around the event, 'The Medieval Imagination', an exhibition of medieval manuscripts. The above video reminds us of the disruptive nature of the new technology of 'the book' and this link gives a taste of the exhibition, including a gallery and audio tour,
http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/programs/exhibitions/kmg/2008/medieval_imagination

Aramaic

2008-05-07T20:30:00.006+10:00

This is the Lord's Prayer in Aramaic, the language that Jesus spoke. It illustrates so well the distinctive sound and flavour of Eastern Christianity, much of which has been forgotten and lost in the West. When I listen to this being chanted, it reminds me of the whirling dervishes, both their music and movement. I read once that prostrations were a common practice in early Christianity, something associated with Islam today.

The tree is blooming

2008-04-30T15:22:00.003+10:00

These purple flowers symbolise the growth so far

and the promise of growth to come.

From little things...

2008-04-23T16:57:00.001+10:00

A Tree of Knowledge

2008-04-22T16:59:00.006+10:00

This 'Tree of Knowledge' was made

by the 2008 BALD students.

Season of mellow fruitfulness

2008-04-21T17:37:00.003+10:00

Right now, the deck still looks much like this but soon...

It will look like this, a photo taken on our deck last autumn...

My third Jing/screencast.com combination

2008-01-28T10:00:00.002+11:00

I took this photo in Janey's kitchen last week.

My second, this time still, Jing

2008-01-27T21:54:00.000+11:00

My first Jing screencast, a video

2008-01-27T17:48:00.003+11:00

New Year's Breakfast 2008

2008-01-09T17:46:00.002+11:00

THE INVITATION

NEW YEAR’S BREAKFAST 2008

Journeys: Past and Future

Journeys change us - emotionally, intellectually, politically, aesthetically and spiritually - so that we are never the same as before.

Australia is now embarking on a new journey.

From our experience of journeys, what message do we have for our fellow Australian citizens for 2008?

As a starting point, we suggest you bring A PIECE OF WRITING OR IMAGE related to travel – to any destination, for any reason. This might be a postcard (sent or received), a photo, a letter, a journal extract or aerogram.

WHEN: 11am, Tuesday, 1st January 2008

THE BREAKFAST TABLE -

before and after

Different seasons in my garden

2008-01-05T17:58:00.001+11:00

In our water-deprived garden, this lush mosiac made in the middle of last year feels especially precious...

A library mosaic

2007-11-25T17:43:00.001+11:00

Zorba the Greek Yolngu style

2007-11-14T15:22:00.000+11:00

Frank Djirrimbilpilwuy from Milingimbi has been in the Indigenous Media Industry for many years and has been a long-standing member and supporter of the Top End Aboriginal Bush Broadcasting Association, TEABBA Radio. As the man behind the camera and release of the video, Frank is also representing the dance group who call themselves "The Chooky Dancers". Frank has said that he filmed the footage at this years Ramingining Festival on the 30th September 2007 and knew it would be "something special" as soon as he saw the boys rehearsing.

The Chooky Dancers are a group of 10 energetic young men who had healthy living in mind when they choreographed the performance. Frank's son Lionel is the lead dancer in the video footage at front and center. "They (the Chooky Dancers) begun working on this just after this years Garma Festival in Gukula and worked very hard on it, they also do a Bollywood style performance which is also fantastic" Frank said.

A vision of students today

2007-11-08T12:28:00.000+11:00

This is a short YouTube video summarizing some of the most important characteristics of students today - how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams, what their lives will be like, and what kinds of changes they will experience in their lifetime.
Created by Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University.

Crossing Thresholds from 20th to 21st Century

2007-11-07T16:37:00.000+11:00

I made this slide show quite a while ago but still love what it says.

The music is courtesy of www.freeplaymusic.com

In honour of the Garden Gals

2007-11-04T18:36:00.000+11:00

I made this digital story after our latest gathering yesterday.
We have been meeting every six weeks for over ten tears.

The music, 'Arriving Abroad', is courtesy of www.freeplaymusic.com

Maria's roses

2007-10-24T16:46:00.000+10:00

BubbleShare: Share photos - Here comes Halloween!

These are an enduring memory of our day in Euroa.

The Classy Cronies assemble again

2007-10-14T18:26:00.000+10:00

I made this story in honour of our group
that has been meeting for fifteen years or more...

The music, 'Tea for Two', is provided by www.freeplaymusic.com.

FANCY FOOTWORK arrives!

2007-10-12T18:43:00.000+10:00

This post featuring 'Women of Spirit', with photos taken a few months later, complements the earlier one.

Circulating ACE Wisdom

2007-10-11T16:11:00.000+10:00

I prepared this slide show for the first 'Circulating ACE Wisdom' project workshop early in August.

Women of Spirit

2007-10-07T10:19:00.000+10:00

During the course of planning our book, Fancy Footwork, Helena Spyrou took these photos, in case we wanted portraits in the book. Later, we decided not.

For information about Fancy Footwork, visit the VALBEC site, http://www.valbec.org.au.

The music, 'Lotus Blossom', is provided by www.freeplaymusic.com.

The angel on our deck

2007-10-06T20:44:00.001+10:00

I used fd's Flickr Toys, http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/captioner.php, to create this caption.

Doorways and openings

2007-10-03T14:50:00.001+10:00

A colleague and I took these photos around St Kilda just before 2000, in preparation for a conference presentation called 'Crossing Thresholds'.

A 'Google Docs' experiment

2007-09-20T19:57:00.000+10:00

^{Who knows if there's another book coming?
Only Brigid can tell...}
^{She will let me know.}

Would you like to add yourself to this Frappr map?

2007-09-15T20:34:00.000+10:00

Apollo Bay 2006

2007-09-07T15:33:00.000+10:00

This is my first attempt with a digital video camera.

Bollards 2

2007-09-07T14:14:00.000+10:00

Today, I have been playing with YouTube and
hence this embedding of an early digital story.

St Brigid's cathedral, Kildare

2007-08-15T09:56:00.001+10:00

Now, I'm clipmarking an image.

clipped from kildare.ie

Early Christian motif piece possibly dating from the 10th. century

My first clipmark

2007-08-15T09:52:00.001+10:00

This is my latest discovery.

clipped from kildare.ie

<H1>Saint Brigid </H1><B>St Brigid - Mary of the Gael - is second only to St
Patrick in the esteem of the Irish people. She is, of course, specially
associated with Kildare and the whole area of Magh Life (The Liffey Plain).
</B><BR>

Meet my talking avatar

2007-08-13T13:48:00.000+10:00

Get a Voki now!

She was created in Voki.

del.icio.us link

2007-08-08T14:43:00.000+10:00

Quick Topic

2007-08-06T11:10:00.002+10:00

QuickTopic is a free message board hosting service that provides an instant online discussion space. You can try it here.

Discuss reflective learning

Finding a map of Australia

2007-08-03T12:35:00.001+10:00

Live Search Maps

http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=-31.278551~124.760742&style=h&lvl=4&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&encType=1

Here is the angel

2007-08-03T11:51:00.000+10:00

As I could not upload this image via Windows Online Writer (without FTP),

I did it inside Blogger.

I want to bring the peace and goodwill that she represents into this blog.

Windows Live Writer

2007-08-03T11:50:00.001+10:00

This is the first time I have tried Live Writer.

I chose the angel on our deck

to announce this change

but am having trouble uploading images.

My first photo mosaic, now enlarged

2007-07-23T19:50:00.000+10:00

Today, I learnt how to make a photo mosaic in Flickr.

I called it, 'Seasons in My Garden'.