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“Here is London, giddy of London
Is it home of the free
Or what?”
— Morrissey, Hairdresser On Fire
Today was a sprint through south and west London to see several Morrissey and Smiths sights. (more…)
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“So I broke into the Palace
With a sponge and a rusty spanner
She said: “Eh, I know you, and you cannot sing”
I said: “that’s nothing – you should hear me play piano””
— The Smiths, The Queen Is Dead
Today was all about tourist sights in central London. (more…)
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“Always look on the bright side of life”
— Monty Python, Always look on the bright side of life
This being my last full day in England I decided to take it easy and try a tour. Little did I know it would be far from easy going. (more…)
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“Tomorrow,
Will it really come?”
— Morrissey, Tomorrow
Today was just a last ride on the train and tube to get to the airport.
I’ve finished the mid-May 2-day secure360 conference here in St. Paul. It was generally quite good even though it was very corporate-focused. Security is security no matter what you’re protecting. But first off I got my lanyard! That’s a Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. reference for those not familiar.
The best session was the first one I attended – Users: your first line of defense (click for Slideshare) which had many immediately useful tips. Taking cues from social psychology, Ari Elias-Bachrach focused on methods for influencing people for making effective training. Some tips include
Now, on to the social psychology tips. Some of those included (more…)
Well another Educause annual conference has come and gone. It’s been a few years since I attended the annual conference so it was a joy to return. There were more sessions that I wanted to attend than I could attend. Several time slots had multiple presentations that I wanted to see. With more and more sessions recorded I can catch some of those later. My priorities this year were student success (retention/advising), analytics and vendors. We are implementing Hobsons Retain/AgileAdvisor/AgileGrad suite which includes a CRM (retain), case management advising (AgileAdvisor) and a degree planner (AgileGrad). I was also recently on the team architecting a reboot of our institutional research operation that will be the Office of Planning and Effectiveness so analytics are of particular interest.
The conference kicked off with an entertaining and engaging talk by Sir Ken Robinson. This article captures much of the talk. The very telling video (below) shows one of his points, how you stifle innovation by asking the wrong questions.
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