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Non Violent Direct Action. BlogJune 2020/7
IT’S UNFAIR AND WE NEED TO FIX IT COVID-19 has magnified cracks and inequities in how we share what we have. Disproportionate numbers of black people are dying world-wide from the disease. In...
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Owl stage. BlogJune 2020/8
A wise old own sat in an oak,The more he heard, the less he spoke.The less he spoke the more he heard,Why aren’t we all like that old bird?English Nursery Rhyme. Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes....
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What two visual items remind you of your parents? BlogJune 2020/9
This thoughtlet is via snail’s list of things to write. He mentioned that a collection of books on Marx is a visual reminder of his dad, while for his mum, it is plastic forks. I was considering the...
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“Job ready” vs university education. BlogJune 2020/10
I came from industry into a “clinical professional” teaching position at university. My biggest learning curve was not working out what skills I needed to impart to make sure students met industry...
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Giving myself the best part of my day
Three weeks ago I moved. House. Job. State. When the train carrying my furniture derailed across the desert, I was facing an extra week or so, over Christmas, alone in a near-empty strange house. My...
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Synesthesia, kinesthesia and hallway workshopping. Blogjune 17/21
Low bloggage in the next few days as I complete course outlines and online sites for three different courses. Below is what my hallway has become. Ten giant post-it pages, one for each teaching week....
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Tick F***ing Tock. Blogjune. 18/21
So, the federal government has announced that AstraZeneca vaccine is now recommended only for those over 60. And I am under 60. And had an AstraZeneca vaccination last Friday. And the extremely rare...
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Life’s succulent fairy mushroom remix. Blogjune 19/21
Academia suits my work style – where I can keep going until a job is finished and I am on a roll. It doesn’t quite suit my leisure style, which involves actually having some. This new gig involves...
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BlogJune challenge question. 20/21
Today’s post is a page from my journal with a question/challenge for readers… I am about to hunker down in a big creating/making/writing/configuring whirlwind for the next 48 hours or so…
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New, red beanie. Blogjune 21/21
So. Very. Tired. And. Not. Finished. Yet. Great whooshing deadline whooshed past this morning, and I am consoling myself that I am doing the university teaching equivalent of living in a house while...
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Making space for diversity in LIS education. BlogJune 22/21
I was hoping to have made several posts about the concept of “voice” in university study before I posted this info about a session that Kirsten Thorpe and I are doing with Andrew Finegan from ALIA on...
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New normal. No backstory. BlogJune 23/21
I like where I live. I like the people I have met and am settling into step with. Same little group of women growing stronger together in the gym way too early in the cold mornings; the old Kuarna...
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New garden. Or windmill. Or moon. BlogJune 24/21
After 20 years, I finally added solar panels to the roof of my house in October last year. Just before that, I used the pandemic lockdown to spend a lot of time finally turning that old bathtub,...
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Cat or dolphin? You decide. BlogJune 25/21
Busy day today, so just sharing a movie of Chiba imitating a dolphin this afternoon. (You need to click to make the movie appear in most browsers) The story is a little more grisly. A pigeon on the...
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Paying with sweat, and a skull full of mush. BlogJune 26/21
It’s the first week of the Study Period, which means the first Zoom session with a new class. It’s not only about giving students’ brains an outline of the subject, and providing a practical...
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Acknowledging, valuing and making space for diversity in LIS education
I made some changes to the foundational course studied by Masters students in our Information Management program, updating it to better match the Australian Library and Information Association’s...
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Gravestones, coffee, divorce, tyres or a haircut. BlogJune22/11
Walking the 600 metres or so to the yoga studio this morning, I accidentally bought a bicycle. Living in the inner city is much more like the country town where I grew up than the suburbs were. When I...
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I signed up to answer a JuneQuestion tonight. Not gonna. Somewhere in my journal I have a page headed ”How not to get sucked into unhealthy academia again”. It lists several very useful ways to avoid...
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What am I grateful for? BlogJune 22/13
Thanks to Andrew, who is answering almost all of the JuneQuestions this month for inspiration to answer today’s. I am grateful for the social change that has happened in my lifetime. I benefited from...
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