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
A wiki is a universally-editable website with minimal formatting. The word comes from the Hawaiian wiki-wiki which means “quick”. Advantages of using wikis in learning and teaching No special software needed Immediate posting of content Low graphics content – fast loading Simple or complex hypertext structure as required Can have
A lot more information has been added to the wiki bibliography post.
I will be attending the ALT-C conference : ALT-C, Beyond Control, Learning technology for the social network generation in Nottingham on 4-6 September 2007. I’ll be there with my colleagues Ale Armellini, Sylvia Jones and Gilly Salmon. We’ll be running a practical workshop on Wiki-tivities. I’m writing it now… it
From my mailbox… You are invited to the grand opening of the Literature Factory at Kula 2 (187,7) in Second Life. What is a Literature Factory? Well now, that’s a silly question, it’s simply a factory that makes literature. According to Wikipedia: “The term “literature” has different meanings depending on
I’m really excited to be teaching a new Season of Inspiration writing course in October. This will be the fifth time Sharon Rundle and I have taught this course together over several years. We work brilliantly together online, yet we met for the first time in real life only a