"Network West is a network for neighbourhood houses and community centres in the Western Metropolitan region. Net-work West aims to strengthen our communities by building networks between neighbourhood houses and community centres, communities, business, and government in the west."
We recently finished redesigning the Network West site. The original site was developed in static html. The current site was developed in Drupal and now incorporates a range of Web 2.0 functionality.
Having been paralysed for way too long from committing digits-to-keyboard, I resorted to reading about not writing to see if there was anything miraculous that would entice the literary muse to return.
My muse (Medusa Metropoulos of Thebes) is an ornery vixen who demands that the house be lickably clean, every picture straightened with a spirit level, the laundry washed dried, ironed, hung in categories that then drill down to color gradations, the evening meal cooked, every local, national and international news story consumed (including the entertainment gossip for octo mum and angelina) and the inbox so empty tumbleweed ...well tumbles.
6 degrees blogstars are not just any old hokey blogsters. They are people that digitalKulcha is connected to in some way. They are wild 'n wacky people we know directly or indirectly in some fashion.
They are featured here because we think they are one or all of the following:
1. mad geniuses
2. odd/peculiar/suspect
3. great writers
4. actually have something to say or contribute
5. gut smashingly funny
6. a relative that we one day may inherit some zlotes/drahmes/rubles from
We however, take no responsibility for what they say, who they may insult or what their personal predilitctions may be (within reason). Despite this ENJOY!!!!!
By what degree is digitalKulcha connected to Dale Pobega? Answer: 1 degree.
Dale Pobega is a longstanding colleague and friend. He's wonderfully odd and quirky and to my mind one of the best ESL teachers I have had the priviledge to work with. We met in the last century where we both taught literacy and English as a Second language at Duke Street Community House.
He was a pioneer of e-learning in Victoria, Australia and conitnues to be so. I include his blog because it is a supreme example of ESL content that does not patronise with hokey, outdated notions of what English language learning learner's 'should' be learning. He fearlessly engages and challenges his student with online materials and tools.
Dale's description of his blog :: A weekly resource of lessons and activities used to supplement my own students' classroom work within the Victorian ESL Frameworks Certificates 1, 2 and 3. Others are most welcome to participate.
Go to Dale's ESL blog http://dalepobega.blogspot.com/
By what degree is digitalKulcha connected to Makis Karayiannis? Answer: 1 degree.
digitalKulcha's director Toula Karayannis is a relative (yep folks a clear and unashamed case of nepotism). Despite this fact he happens to be one of Greece's best new literary talents. He has written two books that have been shortlisted for a range of some of Greece's highest literary awards. He is also a literary critic and it is this that his blog is dedicated to.
So much of the web is anglo-centric, so this Greek blog is a way of reminding us that other languages and cultures exist beyond our own. His blog is written in Greek, so it's a bit useless for those of you that don't read Greek but for those of you who knock yourselves out.
You can read Makis blog at: http://mkaragiannis.blogspot.com/
