The last 3.5 weeks were filled with meeting Mahara users on the East Coast of the U.S. in New York City, New York State and Boston. I had already started writing about my experience in the MUG post, but will write about that a bit more later. This time, I want to share some of […]
Waiting is an annoying activity that travellers have to deal with. It seems that especially air travel is plaqued by long unwelcome waits. Some people have the necessary money or status miles to travel in style and avoid queues. Mere mortals, however, can conduct a study on how boarding for example is being conducted in […]
ULearn10 (6-8 October 2010) is “New Zealand’s premier education conference” according to CORE Education, the organizer. It is a huge teacher conference with approximately 1,800 participants from all over New Zealand. Some Aussies could also be spotted. Everybody congregated in Christchurch and I guess hoped that there wouldn’t be any major aftershocks. We were lucky. […]
Today I realized that I did not know half about the Luxembourgish transport system. As I went to the airport early enough for students to be on their way to school, I encountered tens of bus lines that I had never seen before. It seemed like the regular city and cross-country busses are only about […]
Coming back from a conference in Passau, I had two sensations of déjà vu. The winter storm “Emma” that swept over large parts of Germany on Friday, February 29 (and Saturday) reminded me of “Kyrill” last January. As in 2007, I was caught up in it and had to struggle to get from Passau to […]