According to Global Knowledge, a CISCO trainer, there are a variety of IT skills which are dying – in that the demand for these skills is dying. And apparently ColdFusion is one of them. Taking figures from US job postings, Global Knowledge discuss the “death” of ColdFusion: “ColdFusion users rave
Just a few notes from Moodleman Julian Ridden’s workshop on theming at the recent Moodlemoot. Why might one need to create a Moodle theme? to meet brand requirements to match an existing site to present a more engaging design for your particular audience – engaging content eg in schools, or
Textiles, narrative & technology… A post for Ada Lovelace Day Throughout history women have used craft work as an outlet for their creativity. Often deprived by domestic circumstances of education and work, they turned to craft, and particularly needlecraft, to express their creative energies. Simple household objects such as quilts
SCORM is a standard for online elearning materials for a single user – typically self-paced modules. It stands for Sharable Content Object Reference Model. It’s a very technical specification that governs how the learning materials are created and delivered to learners. The basic idea is that if you create a
So in America it’s National Napping Day. Apparently a NASA study shows that a few winks after lunch can boost a worker’s output by as much as 34 percent. An afternoon nap ‘is good for your heart’ reported the BBC two years ago. Various studies have shown that a “power
In his article “Jurassic Web” Farhad Manjoo in the online magazine Slade talks about how unrecognizable the Web in 1996 was compared with the Web today. He concludes that despite early trends which predate blogging and user-generated content, it was all fluff and nonsense. I beg to disagree. In 1996
Rhonas Sharpe has made a couple of posts about ELESIG (one of the academic networks I manage the online space for) on her blog. She asked members what benefit they found from the experience of being a member of the community, and got some great answers: From Esyin Chew’s “I
How do we get more students from lower income families to go to University? Aimhigher and similar projects have not had the impact that was hoped. In fact, widening participation may be purely about financial aspects of studying. This was brought home to me the other day when someone pointed
eLearning Papers is looking for essays on topics related to the new learning culture and generation impelled by ICT. The papers may address themes such as new social media in learning, changing learning cultures and habits and learning through mobiles and games. Article submission deadline: 30 March 2009. More information
I was musing on some eportfolio features: An eportfolio should sit between one’s personal space/personal learning space and the institutional learning space (eg VLE) Possible uses of eportfolios assessment application for certification job application personnel record continuing professional development career management Some desirable features: A good app for creating an