http://www.yammer.com/ One of the disadvantages of using Twitter for business is that if you want to have a closed group – perhaps to talk about a project with your project team – everyone has to set their updates to be private, and then you can’t use the same account for
Just putting final touches to our Season of Inspiration online writing course that starts October 6th. I love teaching these courses as online spaces are really brilliant for writing workshops and students respond well to one another. We use Moodle of course. And we have another set of brilliant exciting
Planning is well in hand for tomorrow’s Women on the Web in Leeds (17th September). This all-day conference at exciting venue NTI will bring together over 40 businesswomen. A Forward Ladies event, it is sponsored by NTI and Reach Further, who are organising it. With Meg Pickard as our keynote
This is the first of a series of posts reporting on papers and happenings at the ALT-C conference held this week in Leeds. Bob Rotheram (Leeds Met) reported on the Sounds Good pilot about giving audio feedback to students, both formative and summative feedback on coursework. The technology involved direct-to-mp3
I really should be blogging about the ALT-C conference… I’ll be attending the fourth (but my first) ALT-C Edublogger meetup next week, taking place at Leeds Student Union Mine Bar, Tuesday 9th September, 19.30 onwards. Apparently: ” We may be moving on somewhere else but we’ll stay at the Mine
Think small – while great things are happening in the world at the moment, it seems that several of the bloggers I read have turned their thoughts to the micro scale. From the importance of finding a creative space of your own, however tiny, from blogger Quinncreative, through the microbloggers
You’ll find Reach Further partners in many social networking spaces – we “practice what we preach” and are members of many social networks and online communities. Time is finite, so we’ve found it makes sense to carefully choose the networks and communities that you belong to. Choose those that have