Inside View

Educating knowledge workers

KILKENNY -- Well aware of the global levels of competition faced by my current cohort of college students, I am trying to get more out of each level of assessment. Because I have to increase student productivity if I expect to enhance th...

Teaching Handheld Collaboration

I REMEMBER WATCHING Conn O Muineachain (at left) use his handheld audio recorder when chatting with people during Limerick OpenCoffee and then trying to figure out how we might teach third level students how to do the same thing. It's no...

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Single Touchpoint Views

ONE WEEK INTO an new academic semester at Tipperary Institute and I already have several work practises that I hope become topics of staff development conversations in LIT. The singlemost interesting item is my desire to reduce each majo...

Shout-outs to 20 @Anchor listeners

I SPEND PART of many weekends rewinding social audio conversations and today I've made 20 "shout-outs" to regulars who stop by my watering hole at Anchor.fm/topgold (Click for RSS feed). I've also mentioned a dozen people who didn't get...

Reaching Digital Saturation #digitaldetox

Snap of @topgold's strap-on. I'M STICKING TO MY fitness resolution because I often wear a heart rate monitor under my moobs to remind me what being fat feels like. And I'm also purging a lot of notifications from my life as part of ...

Field Trip to Microsoft Europe

UPDATED 7 FEBRUARY 2020: This is the first blog post I've made that integrates content from my Github Gists. If I continue this practice, I believe I will be able to reduce the number of dead links on my website. That would be a major ...

Journaling with Speech Bubbles and Keyboard Entries

I TEACH JOURNALING to Media Writing students and for the next three years I plan to enhance that creative process with a few specific tips. One is to require a double spread page of speech bubbles and another task is to show a page tha...

Snippets about Leadership in my Second Brain #cong21

I HAVE A LOT OF THOUGHTS about leadership bubbling up inside my second brain. Leadership is a prime topic following me from my days as an Air Force officer and it's the main feature during Congregation 2021.

Impressed by Veed.io #EdChatie

By Bernie Goldbach in Clonmel. Screenshot by @topgold. I STARTED EXPERIMENING with Veed.io on my Samsung Note 9 handset. Here are a few impressions concerning mobile content production, project templates, and workflow.

Appreciating the Focus of Minimalist iA Writer

By Bernie Goldbach in Clonmel I’M TRYING TO reboot writing on my iPad Mini so I’m creating a short blog post by typing thoughts on a Brydge Mini keyboard. I plan to select all the words, paste them into a Typepad editing screen, a...