Chris Betcher

We may be just a couple of NYFBs , but I had the pleasure yesterday of catching up with Jenny Luca from Melbourne, author of the Lucacept blog. Jenny was in town with her friend Helen to attend a presentation by Garr Reynolds on how to do better presentations. We made tentative plans to catch up and fortunately things fell into place and we were able to actually meet up. After the ridiculously difficult task of finding a parking spot, made all the more difficult by the fact that I left my wallet at home and so had no money to pay for even meter parking, I eventually found a legal parking spot only a short walk from where we could meet. Thank you universe. Jenny is one of the refreshing voices in the Aussie blogosphere, with so much passion and enthusiasm for education and how technology can make it better. I was very keen to meet up and have a chat. After finally meeting on the corner of Grosvenor and George streets, I suggested we go take a look at the new Sydney Apple Store a...

In previous posts , I've mentioned how nice it is to occasionally convert some of our online connections into real ones.  This week I had the opportunity to again meet up with someone I'd only ever know through the blogosphere. Susan Sedro is a teacher at the Singapore American School where she does ICT support for years 3, 4 and 5.  The first time I "met" her was during a group Skype call back in September last year and since that time we have read each other's blogs, chatted occasionally on Skype and, along with Kim Cofino , even recorded an episode of Virtual Staffroom together. I'd noticed that Susan was asking some very Aussie-centric questions on Twitter a while back, wanting to know the best places to go snorkelling on the Barrier Reef, etc, so I assumed she might be planning a trip down here.  We got in contact and I said if she was in Australia to give me a yell and we'd catch up.  Well, she yelled and we caught up. So last Wednesday night, Lind...