Rob the Geek

Category: Education & Innovation

  • Foocamp Day Three

    This is part three of my three part coverage of FooCamp 2009. You can also read part one and part two for more. On the final day of foocamp there was only time for yet another delicious breakfast (gotta feed the brain/clear the hangover) and two final sessions. The wrap-up followed the second session and […]

  • Day Two of Foo

    This is part two of my three part coverage of FooCamp 2009. You can also read part one and part three for more. Again, this entry is written under the constraints of FrieNDA and will summarise only those observations which are non-attributable to anyone but myself. After the big brain squeeze yesterday, I kicked off […]

  • FooCamp 2009, Warkworth, New Zealand

    This is part one of my three part coverage of FooCamp 2009. You can also read part two and part three for more. Well – here I am at the 2009 FooCamp New Zealand it’s 11:30 as I start writing this piece and I’d say that things were winding down for the night but I’d […]

  • Expanding the mind

    I was discussing the consumption of information with a colleague this afternoon as he was telling me he, like I, has just started adding a bunch more RSS feeds to his reader in an effort to access different thinking above and beyond what we traditionally follow (i.e. dropping some of the IT specific feeds in […]

  • The Snowball Effect (or, how #GoTech came to be)

    This morning an innocuous observation on Twitter sparked what would turn out to be (for me at least) a far-reaching discussion concerning the teaching of Information Technology and its related fields in New Zealand. For background, the statistics referred to by @littlehigh (Paul Reynolds, not the Telecom CEO) come from this NZ Herald article. The […]

  • Video: Company Values

    This link has been bouncing around the NZ twitter space this morning, it’s very well constructed video of a young company and their employees explaining what it means to be, and work at the company. It reminded me of my early days at an NZ IT start up, and also of the early days at […]

  • Critical thinking

    In a world where information overload is becoming a serious issue in terms of what we believe and how we choose to educate ourselves, one of the most important skills to ensure you are taking a balanced view is that of thinking critically. In this article by Dr. Linda Elder and Dr. Richard Paul, Learning […]

  • The Geek *will* inherit the earth…

    My eye was caught this morning by an article referencing some research published mid-this month from UCLA. The article stated that “…this is an evolutionary change which will put the tech-savvy at the top of the new social order.” The geek will inherit the earth after all? This is tempered somewhat by the need to understand […]

  • Speaking at the UCB International ‘Online Media’ Forum

    Last week I was fortunate enough to be asked to present to a group of broadcasters at the UCB International On-line Media Forum. My topic was Digital Content, Communities and Conversations – specifically, I looked at the strategies and technology choices available to a new entrant into this space. 200810 Communities&Conversations View SlideShare presentation or […]

  • TelecomONE – Warkworth, October 3-5, 2008

    The last three days were invigorating, exhausting and challenging all at the same time. After 8 months of organisation, seeking permission (or forgiveness) and juggling schedules, a group of motivated individuals converged on Mahurangi College in Warkworth about an hour out of Auckland, New Zealand. The attendees were from across the spectrum of Telecoms business […]