Inside View

Help Us Get Graduates Ready

AS WE APPROACH 2022, I'm watching Honours Degree students develop systems, programs, and research that can predict trends for the rest of the 2020s. What do you think will be on the immediate horizon? If you have an opinion, we have a survey that would take less than three minutes to complete.

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Assembled with Protean Thinkers #cong21

Screenshot by Dermot Casey

I'M SPENDING A cold Saturday on a Surface Book beaming into a hybrid conference held in Cong, County Galway, Ireland. Although the conversations will be stimulating, I know what I'm missing while separated by miles in the ether.

Buying a Christmas present for family

BECAUSE SPOTIFY SERVES ME the 90s or K-pop instead of the music rut I want to occupy, I've finally decided to pay for a family membership so I can control my listening pattern. I prefer podcasts on Spotify instead of my 13yo's tracks.

Planning to iterate CMD at TUS-Clonmel

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Based on feedback from a survey creative media graduates, staff on the TUS-Clonmel campus are reviewing the Creative Media Design (CMD) degree. One future iteration of the programme could result in three clearly defined elective streams that would start no later than the fifth semester. One stream would be for web development. One stream would teach UX. And the third stream would give graduates strong expertise in digital marketing. If you have time, please take a three minute survey by clicking the hyperlink or by tapping the blue Launch Me button above. You will be helping to support our planned revisions.

Using Microsoft Teams for Big and Private

AS THE IRISH GOVERNMENT mulls over options to control an unexpected fourth wave of COVID-19, I'm auditing the technology I use that enables me to work from home. Near the top of the list is Microsoft Teams because of its ability to manage both large groups and private meetings.

TUS Students on TippFM #podcasting

THREE STUDENTS from the Clonmel Digital Campus joined Fran Curry live on air for the Friday panel on TippFM. Marie Cowan, Frank Murphy, and Shane O'Callaghan discussed climate change, COVID restrictions, and overuse of social media. You can hear the conversation on Spotify or download "TUS Students on TippFM" Transcript.txt (30.7K).

2021 TUS-Clonmel Graduates

THE FIRST TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY graduates to finish on the Clonmel Digital Campus represent an array of creative skills. My hat is off to this proud group of finishers who maneuvered through a host of challenges while the world was locked down due to COVID.

[Bernie Goldbach teaches creative media for business on the Clonmel Digital Campus of the Technological University of the Shannon.]

Habits to Expand Personal Knowledge Management

I STARTED this blog post because I wanted to offload a bubbling mass of information about the atomic habits I've developed in support of effective personal knowledge management (PKM). Then I paused in mid-sentence to for my daily review with my Readwise app.

"You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems." That's one of the takeaways I've learned from James Clear.

It Takes a Family Effort to Reduce Carbon While Driving

THE WORLD LOOKS on as global leaders suggest ways to reduce carbon emissions. When all the climate action plans trickle down to the family level, I discover that unless we change what we drive and how far we travel, it's all just talk.

Excerpts I read in The Irish Times [1] and Sunday Business Post [2] suggest “core measures” of Ireland's Climate Action Plan involve changes to some previous targets for a variety of climate measures. Some of these changes include increasing the amount of car kilometres to be delivered by electric vehicles (EVs) by 2030 to 40-45 per cent of total car transport, up from 35-40 per cent in the 2019 plan. Another facet of the government plan proposes a 25 per cent decrease in the kilometres traveled in cars alongside a wider modal sift involving public transport and a condensed development strategy.

I reckon there are mountains of public opinion to shift before the public endorses the mileage targets by changing their modes of transport.