...and thinking there might be some kind of electoral process underway here at the moment - there has been the odd passing reference to it on the news - yes, I'm loving it.
Typical travel shenanigans and the sun is shining in the sunshine state. Conference starts tomorrow with pre-conference workshops, so the blog may be pretty quiet today as I get stuck in to usual Sheffield Hallam work stuff. Though I guess it is only polite to get one of the games kicked off.
Shumanteau II (the revenge of wordjam)
Guess the meaning of the following (very easy) warm ups
twitteratii
advertorial
sheducause
3 points for the correct answer, 2 point for any funny Educause/conference/SHU-related suggested translations, 1 point for a funny non-related suggestion.
Also there is 1 point available for any newly-made Educause/conference/SHU-related portmanteau.
Please note this is a public blog - so keep them nice ;-)
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"Richard in first to comment on blog post shocker"
twitteratii: important people to follow on twitter
advertorial: an advert that is a tutorial in disguise, or vice versa. Or an editorial/advert - like an 'advertisement feature' maybe?
sheducause; is the SHU prescence at Educause
Paul at Educause is PHeducause...
full points to richard and an early lead is claimed: 3 + 3 + 3 + 1 = 10
(btw I'm liking the idea of a "phed")
Seeing as Richard has romped home first with that task - well done Richard, here are a couple of my portmanteaux from the Educause programme:
emerologies and digent (hoping they've not been done before!).
Loving the look of 'Feel the Spirit' - can we have a pic of Phed with Elvis please?
And I really like the time zone clocks.
Enjoy!
well done richard! i thought that advertorial was an advert that relied on lavatorial humour (eg, "here at points of view we have received a number of complaints that the surelock advertorial was broadcast before the watershed"), so thank goodness you got in there first and prevented me from embarrasing myself in public.
i know this is kind of cheating, as i tweeted it a while back, but could someone who tweets to 2 separate accounts be a twitzophrenic?
Thanks for the praise!
I think twitzophrenic works! (I did see your original post on Twitter)
I too like the timezone clocks, very handy
twitteratti - a twitter about TurnItIn?
well done guys, more points are coming flooding in:
Anne - 2 pts
Liz - 2pts
Brian - 2pts
some new ones??
margaritaville
SLecture
microcontent
and don't forget, Annes are available for serious or comedy guesses.
A SLecture is a lecture in Second Life, which is not what we'd tell people to use it for.
I'll leave the other two, but Anne's Emerologies could well be emerging technologies
(Yesterday, whilst reading comments, I saw a word verification thing that actually meant something: 'Malmo', city in Sweden. The one here is 'gerness', which means 'german harness')
more points for Richard (3 + 3 + 1)
couple of new ones I spotted this am:
ecohangers
taxonomics
Seem to have lost a post I made here in response to Richard so will try and re-create it - yep, you've guessed correctly on emerologies - do I have point-awarding authority Louise? This boy is doing far too well for my liking.
Gutted that I am not going to be making my acceptance speech at the Lifetime Acheievement Awards Ceremony - had the speech ready and was going to borrow your high heels Louise. May have to take a day's leave to work on this one - amazing what you come up with when you Google florida, shed, oars and duke all in one go - many e-books on the topic.
and if you search 'digent' on flickr you get a picture of a yacht race - no idea why! anyone know?
Blooming hell Richard - give us a chance. And so I'm left to attempt margaritaville and microcontent:
Both are obviously to do with cooking and food: margaritaville describes a place or community that exists on margaritas (I know the spelling is wrong, but who cares at this stage?) - so people that drinks cocktails and eat lots of cardboard packed pizzas. Microcontent is also obviously food that can be warmed up in hotel rooms using the microwave (and perhaps not just food, but lets no go there). Some people think microcontent is small nibbles (dare I say nuggets?) of fodder that can be used by educators and educated to add a bit of authenticity and spice to the procedings (unlike this dissertation - no actually this is microcontent too).
Slecture - surely that's a post pub teaching session?
I'm finding these postings confuseful...
Taxonomics - economic policies relating specifically to tax? (although it's really a scientific classificatory scheme)
Ecohangers - small creatures that live on dust and hold your clothes up in the wardrobe?
digent - a polite man online
digent - digitally divergent - those who live in an alternate universe and believe computers don't exist
microcontent - a sound-amplified Educause conference presentation
ecohangers - misspelled angry yodellers?
My word:
twilitic (courtesy of word verification no less!)
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