Recently I have been reflecting on reflection… At the moment I am tutoring both a How to Blog course and a couple of Online Tutoring courses. In both of the contexts covered by these online courses, although in very different ways, reflection is key. In the case of a blog,
Thinking about the “Art of Digital” had me reminiscing about my years as a digital writer and artist and remembering all the wonderful creative online writing and digital art projects we did as part of the trAce Online Writing Centre. When I did my MA in Writing my dissertation was
In order to get out information from Iran about the aftermath of the recent disputed elections, blogs and Twitter have been vital. Iran has one of the highest numbers of bloggers per head of any country in the world, and the social web is proving that it is impossible to
There’s a new service from Google called Subscribed Links. http://www.google.com/coop/subscribedlinks/ It enables you to create custom search results that you can add to your Google search pages. Users can display links to services for their customers, as well as providing news and status information updated in near-real-time, answering of questions,
With so much happening in the country at the moment and enormous changes happening daily and affecting the highest levels of government, I thought this might be a good time to look into change management. The government isn’t the only organisation that is in a state of flux. Companies large
The JISC Regional Support Centre (Yorkshire and Humberside) annual conference yesterday was a great day. So good to share practice with so many other practitioners in FE, and hear about some great work going on around the region. Reach Further had an exhibition stand as well as giving a short
One of the sad side-points to this week’s revelations about MPs expenses is that a remote worker is seen as not an appropriate employee. At a time when flexible working of all kinds is supporting companies through the recession as well as providing a better work/life balance for countless employees
Here’s an inspirational video about the changing nature of learning by replacing classroom with community and other innovative strategies. “The death of education – the dawn of learning” Stephen Heppell Originally published on reachfurther.com
Twitter has failed and your shared online calendar is down. The lag on your task list server is too great for the overloaded wifi you’re currently using and you’ve forgotten your password for that Google Doc you were working on… Would this scenario paralyse your day to day work? I’ve
Let’s hear it for the women who are learning to conquer the web… Today (24th March) is Ada Lovelace Day, an international day of blogging organised by Suw Charman-Anderson to draw attention to women excelling in technology. The FindingAda website explains: ” Women’s contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom