Note: I had fun writing this post with Wendy Taleo, who hosted the Virtually Connecting session.    Plaits. (14 Dec 2012). “Fremantle Horizon.”  Online image, Flickr. Retrieved 12 July 2016. A ping from Wendy Taleo drew me out of my teaching-grading cave to the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA) conference this Wednesday, July 6, also a Hari Raya Puasa public holiday in Singapore. Though Fremantle, Perth (Western Australia) might be closer to me than say, an American conference, work commitments still hold me and many others…