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Top Ten Web Tools of 2013
This is the sixth time I have compiled a list of the top ten web tools I have used during the year. I am finding it interesting looking back over 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 and 2012 which tools I still...
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e-Learning Stuff – Top Ten Blog Posts of 2013
A little later than planned. Well 2013 was an eventful year for me, moving jobs after seven years at Gloucestershire College. I have continued with writing blog posts. There was a lot less writing on...
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Steering a supertanker…
…it’s quite easy actually. We often use analogies to explain why something is challenging or difficult. One analogy that is often used is the iceberg, a good example of this is Schien model of...
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Scared of the Screens
This is an interesting article on the response to recent media reports on the negative impact of screens on young people and how the art of conversation is been lost. Reading the article I was...
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Still Predicting
So where are the flying cars, the silver jumpsuits and video phones which were going to be part of everyday life in the 21st Century? Making predictions about the future of technology is easy. However...
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Visual Clutter
So why do we feel the need to fill the space with signs and notices. At my local library/community space, I noticed how cluttered the new café area was with notices and signs. The end result was not...
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On the tech side…
As some will now as well as talking about e-learning stuff, I also like to talk about the tech side of things too. Over the last few months I have been talking about things I have written about on...
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Just checking the e-mail…
What’s the first thing you do in the morning? What’s the first thing you do when you sit down at your desk at work? I suspect you are probably checking your e-mail? It wouldn’t surprise me that you...
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Show me the evidence…
I think this line is really interesting from a recent discussion on the ALT Members mailing list. …in particular to share these with academics when they ask for the evidence to show technology can...
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It’s not what you say you do, it’s the way that you do it!
I was thinking the other day that I don’t have enough readers of the blog and insufficient engagement. So the solution has to be that the name of the blog isn’t right. First idea would be change the...
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You too can be a millionaire!
Yesterday was A Level results day, for over 800,000 students they got a letter explaining the outcome for most of two years studying. For some it will be an amazing result and they will progress onto...
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Survivorship Bias
In my recent blog post I reflected on the wealth of news articles about highly successful people who failed their A Levels, or how everyone can be a millionaire I was reminded of this great XKCD...
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We once went there, it was nice…
co-authored by Lawrie Phipps, Donna Lanclos, and Chris Thomson. Beyond Metaphor: New Iterations of #JiscDigLead t’s been three years since we ran the the first Jisc Digital Leaders Programme. During...
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Time is a solution…
Is time the solution to the problems we face in education? It can be nice to have the time to do new and interesting things, but the reality in which we live, work and learn, is that time is limited...
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Hey Siri, are you real?
Following on from my recent blog post about installing voice assistants on campus, I recently read an article, Giving human touch to Alexa or Siri can backfire, on how trying to make voice assistants...
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Still Predicting
So where are the flying cars, the silver jumpsuits and video phones which were going to be part of everyday life in the 21st Century? Making predictions about the future of technology is easy. However...
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Still Predicting
So where are the flying cars, the silver jumpsuits and video phones which were going to be part of everyday life in the 21st Century? Making predictions about the future of technology is easy. However...
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Visual Clutter
So why do we feel the need to fill the space with signs and notices. At my local library/community space, I noticed how cluttered the new café area was with notices and signs. The end result was not...
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On the tech side…
As some will now as well as talking about e-learning stuff, I also like to talk about the tech side of things too. Over the last few months I have been talking about things I have written about on...
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Just checking the e-mail…
What’s the first thing you do in the morning? What’s the first thing you do when you sit down at your desk at work? I suspect you are probably checking your e-mail? It wouldn’t surprise me that you...
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