Michael Coghlin, Keynoter, Southern Pacific
For a thousand very compelling reasons we are absolutely delighted that Michael Coghlin, from Adelaide, Australia will be our Keynoter. These are warm and friendly waters “down there”, last visited by me when Michael arranged for me to do a keynote/webcast in front of a large crowd in Melbourne.
We admit to some worry about Michael’s presence. He’s just returned from New Zealand where just about the smartest e-educators on the planet gathered; the good news is they rode all over the place sharing, sharing, sharing. The bad news is a trip like that leaves one pretty brain-dead for a long time. I can assure you this will not be the case with Michael.
Let’s hope I did not make his job harder. We put a brand new wrinkle into the Opening - at the end of it we will play a 20 minute recording from Derek Keats in South Africa, welcoming our ship to the Southern Hemisphere. Annette Stock, a Kiwi from Rotorua, North Island, will follow with a welcome of her own….followed by Michael who will keynote, followed by Annette and her presentation about how she uses rap music to do her own magic…..followed by conversation, I suspect, from many of those who went on the Kiwi road trip a couple weeks ago.
Here are some links about Michael…a great guy who I had the pleasure of having as a guest in my home in San Diego:
Michael Coglin links:
Michael’s home page and his Articles/Presentations
A podcast - Indigenous Knowledge Traditions and the Future of Networked Learning click here
The Future of Learning in a Networked Learning Conference click here
Michael Christie: Aboriginal Knowledge Traditions and Digital Technology click here