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Apollo Bay 2006

This is my first attempt with a digital video camera.

Bollards 2

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

St Brigid's cathedral, Kildare

Now, I'm clipmarking an image.

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

My first clipmark

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

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She was created in Voki.

del.icio.us link

Quick Topic

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

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

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

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

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

I called it, 'Seasons in My Garden'.

Purple a-plenty magnified

This is the second photo mosaic I tried,
a different arrangement this time.

Voice Thread

This is Voice Thread that allows multiple contributors.

WalkieTalkie

AFLF E-trends June 2007 online event

Here are the slides I prepared for the Australian Flexible Learning Framework (AFLF) June 2007 E-trends one-hour panel conversation called 'The Realities of E-learning in the 21st Century'.

The panel members were:
Leigh Blackall – Educational Technologist, NZ
Wendy Zammit – E-learning practitioner, Sydney
Tony Carr - Co-ordinator: Staff Development,South Africa
Delia Bradshaw - Nomadic Adult Educator, Melbourne.

It was chaired by Michael Coghlan.

AccessACE Workshop, June 20 2007

I created a Slide Show!

Another irresistible plaything, slide.com...
snapshots from my 60th birthday at Bud's.

Slideshare: good for PPTs

Slideshare allows me to upload Power Point files

such as this one that I made

for the Converge 2006 conference in Melbourne.

Birthday orchids

It is nearly six weeks

since Di gave me these

for my 60th birthday.

Each day, I revel in

their beauty and longevity.

Chelsea

We are having a good time.

I made this post as part of a session at Chelsea Longbeach Centre last Friday. Afterwards, I walked down The Strand, past the spot where I spent three years of my life in late adolescence. As with the Cheltenham post office residence, my home is no longer there, demolished for more modern buildings. It was beautiful to walk right onto the beach. When I lived there, I was barely aware of this glorious location, my mind being so university-centred.

Me in Second Life

GippsTafe Students originally uploaded by joannamkay.

The avatar in red and blue is me, Biddy LaFontaine. This is the momentous day of the launch of the resort, last Monday.

My Podomatic now lives here too

St Kildascape, Winter 2006

St Kildascape, Winter 2006, originally uploaded by deliab.

I'm glad I took this photo, at our back door, about a month ago. Already, the splendid moment is passed.

I posted the photo here directly from Flickr.

Another view of WOMAD

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Not wooden women

I joined You Tube today.

It's marvellous to be able to send my digital story straight to my Biddy blog.

I made this early work in summer last year.

Winter splendour in St Kilda

I love this photo!

I am going to send it from here, Writely,

(a truly magical online word processor),

to my Biddyjournal blog.

Scarfscape

I have had a delightful day today,
filming a diversity of scapes around St Kilda.
I blogged this row of my scarves straight from Picasa.

 

A test e-mail post: Global Voices Online

I sent the information below to this spot by e-mail.

The world is talking. Are you listening?

A growing number of bloggers around the world are emerging as “bridge bloggers:” people who are talking about their country or region to a global audience. Global Voices is your guide to the most interesting conversations, information, and ideas appearing around the world on various forms of participatory media such as blogs, podcasts, photo sharing sites, and videoblogs.

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/globalvoices/top/about-global-voices/

Another ODEO post: Amergin with music

powered by ODEO
This time I uploaded an mp3 file to ODEO and then uploaded it from there to here. I also chose a different design for the audio player. Links to a podcast are below.

http://odeo.com/audio/1403614/view

Another ODEO post: Amergin's poem read aloud

powered by ODEO

I recorded an audiopost at ODEO and then uploaded it from there to here. Links to a podcast are below.

http://odeo.com/audio/1403481/view

An ancient Celtic poem

I posted this poem from Word.

I have been in many shapes
I have been a narrow blade of grass
I have been a drop in the air
I have been a shining star
I have been a word in a book
I have been an eagle
I have been a boat on the sea
I have been a string on a harp
I have been enchanted for a year on the foam of the water
There is nothing in which I have not been.

An ancient Celtic poem, The Song of Amergin

Keeping track

I now have so many sites, I am being more conscientious about gathering them together in the one place. del.icio.us is ideal.

http://del.icio.us/deliab/deliamb

Lavender power

May the healing powers

of lavender

permeate my blog!

Another online repository

* I have just opened a new site at http://multiply.com.

* Slowly, I am trying to work out the distinctive qualities and virtues of all these online repositories and aggregators.

* On my site, you can see a photo of Biddy Bannon,

my Irish grandmother and this blog's namesake.

Delia's multiply site

A Change of Scene

On April 20th, I gave a presentation
called A Change of Scene.

I have a wikispace
called A Change of Scene.
You can find it at
http://snipurl.com/rpak.

For a sound and sight show, visit http://michalk.id.au/ala/aChangeofScene,
where Michael Chalk houses
his multimedia record of this event.

Venus Bay

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My first ODEO phone blog

Testing with Audioblogger, May 29 2006

VALBEC 2006 Conference, May 5th 2006

These are the websites recommended in a handout distributed at the 2006 VALBEC conference. The workshop, co-presented with Michael Coghlan, was called
Different Voices, Different Spaces.

Audio tools
AUDACITY
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

AUDIOBLOGGING
http://audioblogger.com/
http://npaudio.blogspot.com/
http://mikecogh.blogspot.com//

PODOMATIC
http://www.podomatic.com/
http://michaelc.podomatic.com/
http://deliab.podomatic.com/

SKYPE
http://www.skype.com/helloagain.html

Other resources
ACAL
http://www.groups.edna.edu.au/course/view.php?id=221 (ACAL’s ‘Literacy Live’)

DIFFERENT VOICES, DIFFERENT SPACES website
http://dvds.flexiblelearning.net.au/index.html

DIFFERENT VOICES, DIFFERENT SPACES project report
http://www.flexiblelearning.net.au/flx/go/home/projects/2005/pid/126

DIFFERENT VOICES, DIFFERENT SPACES CD-ROM resource (2005)
http://www.flexiblelearning.net.au/flx/go/home/projects/2005/pid/126

MICHAEL’S SITES
http://users.chariot.net.au/~michaelc/mater/easy_voice.htm
http://users.chariot.net.au/~michaelc/nz/CLESOL/keynote_language.htm

NEW PRACTICES IN FLEXIBLE LEARNING 2005
http://www.flexiblelearning.net.au/flx/go/home/projects/2005/pid/54
(Resources for: Beyond Text, Connecting the Dots and Social Interactions Packs)

PODCAST DIRECTORY FOR EDUCATORS
http://recap.ltd.uk/podcasting/index.php

THE KNOWLEDGE TREE
http://knowledgetree.flexiblelearning.net.au/index.html

Source: Different Voices, Different Spaces workshop, VALBEC 2006 conference

WOMAD 2006: Towards utopia 2

Was this my favourite spot, the chai shop, The Holy Cow?

In honour of Brigid

Brigid's feast day is the 1st of February, Imbolc in the ancient Celtic calendar. Imbolc is the mid-winter celebration held to herald the return of light and fertility as the Earth prepares to awaken from her winter hibernation.

Coloured sands

This is my favourite image from WOMAD 2006,

the sands used by the Tibetan monks for their sand mandala.

WOMAD 2006: Towards utopia

These splendid lanterns festooned the whole park.

Below is a short digital story.

One of our garden plaques

This always takes me back to Sicily.

This is the photo for our New Year's Breakfast invitation,

a threshold taking us

from the past year into the one ahead.

Isn't this heavenly?

Chinese celestial bliss?

(And in Sydney at the 'Chinese Garden' in 2005!)

In praise of the human voice

Papyrus in the park

Bill, Rob, Geri and I had a picnic in Footscray Park today. We chose a spot near this papyrus cluster in the lake. We had a happy, sunny time together.

November nasturtiums

Once, at a CAE tutor's party, I asked everyone to say what flower the'd like to be, and the reasons why. On that day, I declared 'nasturtiums' because they are both cheerful and hardy. The mass that returns at the back of our place each year testifies to their beauty and resilience. I took this photo yesterday afternoon.

Some open source folk music

http://ia300108.us.archive.org/1/items/Some_free_source_folk_music/JustEnough_folk_from_Delia.mp3

RSS success

http://ia300114.us.archive.org/2/items/RSS_success/RSSsuccess.mp3

This is a huge technical milestone, for me.

Bendigo Gardens, Spring 2005

Written in 1999

NAME: Delia Mary Teresa Bradshaw (nee Will)

Comments
Delia was the name of my paternal grandmother. She was born Delia Bannon in Galway, Ireland, and emigrated to Australia in 1884 as a young woman.

Mary was the name of my maternal grandmother. She always discouraged talk about the country of origin of her Knox forebears, wanting to leave ‘all that’ far behind. Nobody knew or cared what part of England (or was it Northern Ireland? Or Scotland?) or when.

Teresa is the name I took for confirmation at the age of ten. At that time, I had Teresa of Lisieux in mind; today, I’m more inclined towards Teresa of Avila. But then, these days, I’d probably choose a different name altogether.

Bradshaw is a welcome relief from my original name of Will which always prompted "Well, where there’s a will, there’s a way" or equally irritating proverbs. Bradshaw, meaning ‘broad wood’, is an old border country name evoking trees and groves and a love of place.

Reflections
Naming is a powerful act, exerting a huge influence on identity formation. How we are named and how we name ourselves, the names we prefer and the nicknames we detest, all contribute to our own and others’ sense of who we are and who we want to be. As a child and adolescent , I was called ‘Del’. In early adulthood, I favoured and introduced myself as ‘Delia’, disliking the truncated ‘Del’. Now, easier with myself and relaxed about honouring different times and stages in my life, I’m happy with either. At this stage of my life, I am more drawn to the meanings embedded in the names, and especially preoccupied with my grandmother Delia’s story, taking great sustenance and pleasure from identifying with her cultural roots and uncovering what we share in common.

KEY LIFE INFLUENCES
· Being the first (much feted) daughter after three sons
· Attending ‘Kilbreda College’, a Catholic girls secondary school run by Brigidine nuns
· Coming under the spell of my Swiss-born French teacher in Year 11
· Reveling in my first boyfriend at the age of 17 and losing him at 19
· Discovering, at Melbourne University in the mid-60’s, that writers, poets and ‘intellectuals’ are live today, and don’t only exist in books
· Making friends with and visiting the homes of women from a range of European backgrounds, elated by the sights, tastes and sounds of other cultures
· Joining a university women’s group, the first of dozens to come
· Working as a secondary school teacher, throughout my 20’s, in a variety of places – in south-east Gippsland, in a working class suburb in Melbourne’s north-west, in a English borstal, in the ‘hippie’ hills on the outskirts of Melbourne – each of which called me in a different way to examine ALL my beliefs
· Living overseas for two years, in my mid-20’s, in Europe, the Middle East and South-East Asia
· Learning about lesbianism from my first friend who ‘came out’
· Working on a migrant women’s project for 3 years, a magic passport that gave me entry to dozens of largely invisible ethno-specific women’s groups all over Melbourne.

Comments
This is but a tiny sampling, almost chosen at random, that stops in my early 30’s. It is suggestive and certainly not comprehensive.

Reflections
What do I make of this small sample of life highlights gathered together in this way? I realise that I love being the age I am. I love being able to look back on a stretch of history, to discern patterns, connections and origins. In this collection of early life experiences, I see the seeds of my feminism, my socialism, my multiculturalism. Whilst I cannot explain why I was drawn, as if magnetically, to particular people and places and situations, I can see how these encounters have influenced my life since.

I see the significance of certain values and habits I learnt at school. It was made very clear to us that we embarked on a quest for learning not primarily for ourselves but for the good of the wider society. We were encouraged to approach everything we did through the framework of ‘look, judge, act’. I’ve only recently realised that I still follow this methodology for social justice today – ‘what is the nature of the situation? What are the ethical issues? What is to be done?’ Action, doing something about a ‘problem’, was an imperative.

BEST LOVED BOOKS
· Wuthering Heights
· Gaining Ground
· The Harem Within
· A Map of the New Country
· Eva Luna
· The Dinner Party
· Australian Women Artists
· Journal of a Solitude
· The Cancer Journals
· Letter to a Child Never Born
· Women’s Ways of Knowing
· Snake Cradle and Snake Dreaming

Comments
Again, I’ve not compiled this list in a rigorously studious way nor does it cover my life span to date. I jotted down whatever came to mind on the day of writing. I know there are dozens more and that a different day would bring a different list.

Reflections
What does this list of books tell me? Almost exclusively, I read books by women, for women and about women. I love stories about spiritual journeys, those narratives that trace the sources and significance of values and beliefs. I can never read too many autobiographies, those attempts to make meaning of a life. The life stories that captivate me most are those about artists, philosophers and others struggling to express richer ways of seeing and understanding and living.

HEROES/IDOLS/SOURCES OF INSPIRATION
· Isadora Duncan
· Joan Baez
· Tonie Fajdiga (my French teacher)
· Saint Brigid
· Rosa Luxemburg
· Virginia Woolf
· Emily Bronte
· Isabelle Eberhardt
· Hildegard of Bingen
· Roberta Sykes
· Robyn Archer
· Grace Cossington Smith
· Mary Robinson
· Sally Potter
· Judy Chicago
· Clarice Beckett
· Sweet Honey in the Rock

Comments
As with Key Influences and Best Loved Books, this is a spontaneous, not a meticulously organised, compilation. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of women who have inspired, breathed life, into me.

Reflections
What can you tell me from this collection?

ASPIRATIONS
· To excite adult educators about the powerful personal and social possibilities of their work
· To write well, with passion, clarity and cogency, about the relationship between adult education and social well-being
· To participate in projects that are on the pioneering margins
· To be a thoughtful and energetic contributor to the communities (including families, friendship circles, workplace groups, internationalist networks and the local neighbourhood) to which I belong
· To compose and bring to life rituals that draw on all the arts to commemorate key life moments
· To laugh and dance more

Comments
This is a shift from the past to the future, from receiving to giving.

Reflections
What, of all I’ve read and thought and done, now really matters in my life? This involves making choices, often hard ones, about what is both desirable and possible. It invites the marriage of values and actions; it requires reconciling values and constraints. What I decide will not only reveal basic truths about ‘who I am’ but will also profoundly determine ‘who I will be’. It will also contribute to what sort of society we will be. Every micro decision I make has macro consequences; every action we take (or don’t take) is weaving, however minimally, the socio-cultural texture of our future.

ENDNOTE
What if I’d written this:
· A year ago?
· Five years ago?
· Thirty five years ago?

Comments
Something I did write five years ago is another way of contemplating this conundrum of identity, what I now call ‘this multiplicity of selves’. In a discussion about how to deal with a difficult relationship, a friend had suggested that I engage in an internal dialogue about the nature of the difficulties. I decided to do this, in writing, in my journal. To my surprise, when I sat down to write, two selves appeared, one calling herself Miss Prim, the other The Fairy Selves, two very articulate characters who spoke from different parts within me. Their dialogue with each other revealed the plurality of voices and allegiances within me, presumably within all of us.

A month later, sensing there must be more selves keen to express themselves, I sent an invitation to my inner world inviting all interested selves to afternoon tea. I knew that it wouldn’t be till I opened the door that I’d know who would come. To my amazement and joy, in came, one by one,

* Metaphor Mary
* Claire the Clear
* Brigid, the Icon-lover
* May, the journal Self
* Tapestry, the seeker after patterns of Beauty and Meaning
* Sprite, the Spirit of Ideals, Values and Ethics .

During the course of their conversation, it became clear that another self, the one that pre-judges and forecloses prematurely, seemed to be absent. It was Sprite, my voice of conscience, who pointed out that Primadonna was indeed there: it didn’t take much prompting from Sprite to see that there was something of the shadow in all of the selves present.

Reflections
At any moment, we are a fusion of many selves, many voices, many roles, an ever-changing blend of who we’ve been, who we are and who we could become. The combinations and permutations are infinite. Which do we want to favour and which discourage? Are some now unnecessary, to be thanked and farewelled? Are some needing encouragement and an energy boost?

OTHERS’ PERCEPTIONS
Who knows?


Delia Bradshaw, March 1999

Crossing thresholds

This is one of a series of photos

I took around St Kilda

for the December 1999

ALA Crossing Thresholds conference.

Trial 5

Will this fifth attempt sent from my e-mail arrive?

As explained earlier, there was a LONG delay between the sending and the arriving of this e-mail posting. Was it 5 days? I wonder if this length of time is normal or abnormal.

Trial 3

I am trying to send a post to my Biddyjournal by e-mail.

Hooray, it has arrived today, even if several days after its despatch!

Judith Wright speaks

THE FLAME TREE

How to live, I said, as the flame-tree lives?

To know what the flame-tree knows – to be

Prodigal of my life as that wild tree

And wear my passion so?

That lover’s knot of water and earth and sun,

That easy answer to the question baffling reason,

Branches out of my heart, this sudden season.

I know what I would know.

How shall I thank you, who teach me how to wait

In quietness for the hour to ask or give:

To take and in taking bestow, in bestowing live:

In the loss of myself, to find?

This is the flame-tree; look how gloriously

That careless blossom scatters, and more, and more.

What the earth takes of her, it will restore.

These are the thanks of lovers who share one mind.

JUDITH WRIGHT

Bronte beauty

I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after,
and changed my ideas;
they’ve gone through and through me,
like wine through water,
and altered the colour of my mind.

Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

Another experiment:

I posted both the Bronte quote and the Judith Wright poem directly here from Word.

Lavender October 2005

Lavender October 2005, originally uploaded by biddy_bannon.

I took this an hour ago. I love the late afternoon sun.

Golden light

Golden light, originally uploaded by biddy_bannon.

Our garden shines in late autumn. Flickr seems more reliable than Hello.

Martha Nussbaum speaks in 1997 and for today too

I'm so happy I can add audioblogs!

Is the miracle still happening?

A trial audio post

Eureka!! It worked!!

A Celtic poem

...
A shade are you in the heat,
A shelter are you in the cold,
Eyes are you to the blind,
A staff are you to the pilgrim,
An island are you in the sea,
A fortress are you on land,
A well are you in the desert,
Health are you to the ailing.

Yours is the skill of the Fairy Woman,
Yours is the virtue of Brigit the serene,
Yours is the faith of Mary the gentle,
Yours is the tact of the women of Greece,
Yours is the loveliness of Emer the Beauty,
Yours is the tenderness of Darthula the delightful,
Yours is the courage of Maeve the battler,
Yours is the charm of the mouth of Melody.

You are the joy of all joyous things,
You are the light of the beam of the sun,
You are the door of the chief of hospitality,
You are the surpassing star of guidance,
You are the step of the deer on the hill,
You are the step of the steed on the strath,
You are the shape of the swan of swimming,
You are the grace of all lovely graces
...

Traditional Celtic song

Trentham Cushions

I took several photos on our two day holiday to Trentham, Bendigo and Maldon.

Two inviting paths

The Murray at Echuca, originally uploaded by biddy_bannon.

I love this photo of the Murray at Echuca that I took early in 2005. Sometimes the path made by others beckons. Sometimes the more fluid one does.

Magic slippers

These magical slippers could transport me anywhere.

My podcast on podcasting

I am wondering if this link to my podcast will work. Let's try!

http://ia300815.eu.archive.org/1/items/Talk_about_podcasting/talkaboutpodcasting.mp3