Season of Inspiration online writing course There are still some spaces left on our latest online writing course Season of Inspiration 9-week online writing course. Starts 8th October 2007 for 9 weeks. Join us in making the most of seasonal colours and scents, metaphors of the season, place and time
This is a 2D barcode of the URL of the ELKS community. Apparently these barcodes are all the range in Japan where people use their web-enabled mobile phones to read them and then surf to the URL. They are used, e.g., on a poster for a radio station to encourage
Online Tutoringe-book by Carol Higginson, from 2000http://otis.scotcit.ac.uk/onlinebook/ Common Ground“The intersection of art, philanthropy, and the environment.”http://www.commonground2008.com/ EduToolsOld VLE comparisonhttp://www.edutools.info/item_list.jsp?pj=8New peer review versionhttp://www.edutools.info/static.jsp?pj=4&page=HOME “e-learning – making it work”A major national one-day conference for the Learning and Skills sector jointly organised by QIA (the Quality Improvement Agency) and ALT (the Association for
I’m the convenor of the ELKS community of practice – that’s E-Learning and Knowledge Sharing- and it’s a community of expertise in e-learning in HE, which is run for the UN’s GAID (Global Alliance for ICT in Development) initiative by BDRA out of the University of Leicester. It has several
Blogging as-you-go isn’t as easy as I thought. I was too tired last night to blog about yesterday so now I have two days’ worth to try to encapsulate! I’ve decided I don’t like live blogging – I’m too chicken to blog directly into Blogger, and have been trying it
The session on mobile learning by Dr Agnes Kukulska-Hulme, Dr John Cook, Professor Tom Boyle, Mr John Traxler was very interesting. Agnes and her colleagues were good presenters. I did, however, find my personal devil’s advocate surfacing. So much of mobile learning seems to be about the devices, and it
I was certainly nodding at Tim Rudd’s exhortation to us to think about learning spaces for the future without being “held back” by starting from where we are now. We must not be bound by cultures and habits from existing methods of teaching and assessment – let’s be innovative! That
I certainly picked a mixture of different topics at ALT-C today. There are so many sessions it is really difficult to choose, and as I’m changing jobs at the end of this current project I don’t really know what subjects will be most appropriate! So I picked some topics that
An article in The Observer about the maverick Web entrepreneur Dan Wagner is sceptical about the millions to be made in social networking sites. Although most have yet to make a profit, several social networking sites have sold for enormous sums. Wagner is launching shopping website Osoyou: which aims to