I’ve been blogging for over ten years…
I didn’t celebrate my 10-year blogging anniversary, but perhaps I should have! Not many bloggers can claim to have been on the Web for over ten years. In fact I’ve been blogging longer than that. I used to write a regular entry on LitWeb (anyone remember that?) which has now disappeared along with my earliest posts. And
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Why I am a learning technologist
I sometimes wonder: am I seen as a geek, working as I do with technology? If so, it seems an odd thing for someone whose primary interest is in people, learning and words. So how did I get into this learning technology thing? When I was young I read a lot of science fiction. At
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Simple ways to improve Moodle courses and teaching Sustainability
Posts from my Learning Technology Blog in April: Three ways to tighten up your Moodle module for next year April 30th, 2013 Perspectives on Sustainability is truly international April 8th, 2013 10 things you can do today to improve your Moodle module April 5th, 2013
Theories of learning – the ultimate in personalisation
News reached me today of an interesting new model of learning design from the Applied Pedagogic Research Institute of Learning – an international consortium of researchers and practitioners from Finland, Oman, Okayama and Luxembourg – which promises to ‘promote individual attainment through authentic learning practice via user-driven acquisition of learning goals.’ This new model builds
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Creative ways to use Moodle database and glossary / reflections on MOOCs
Post from my Learning Technology blog in March: How to create a tip of the week on Moodle March 21st, 2013 A report-type assessment on Moodle March 19th, 2013 Moodle help sheets added and updated recently March 13th, 2013 MOOCs are an opportunity not a threat March 12th, 2013
St Patrick’s Day chicken & pepper whirls
I’m always looking for recipes that I can use on our fasting days for the 5:2 diet. Here’s a really easy one I adapted myself and worked out calories for. To push the calories further down so you can have another meal add more veg e.g., green beans or sugarsnap peas, and less pasta. And
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Video about technology adoption
Every time a new technology comes along, it take s time to really utilise its potential because we view it through the lens of previous technologies. This was the “digital artifact” I submitted for the assessment of EDCMOOC, the Coursera MOOC I did recently. It was well received, although obviously it could be a lot
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Reflection on OLDSMOOC and OERs
This week I was looking at OERs as part of Week 6 in OLDSMOOC. I tried to find some OERs related to a Moving on with Moodle training course I’m preparing. I’d say this has been a very useful exercise because it’s made me think how I might incorporate OERs and other publicly available materials
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Prototyping Moving on with Moodle (an advanced Moodle course for staff)
Prototyping Moving on with Moodle (an advanced Moodle course for staff) I don’t tend to create course materials that require a lot of programming – the aim of our whole team at my institution has been to create tools to make the production of materials as easy as a prototype would be in the first
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Why a train looked like a stagecoach and other stories of technology adoption
This blog post is a response to the first two weeks of EDCMOOC: E-learning and digital cultures. Technological determinism is obviously far too simplistic a model to explain social change throughout history. The reductionism required makes it deeply flawed. Some technologies have certainly been world-changing – the wheel is the first that comes to mind.
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