Protected: Reflective learning course – week 1
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Is it time to leave Facebook?
I’ve had reservations about Facebook’s privacy for some time. In fact I approach all free commercial applications, from Google to Ning, with a healthy dose of scepticism. Recently I’ve been reading Dan Yoder on his blog Rocket.ly and on Business Insider. He gives ten very cogent reasons why he has
Protected: Reflective learning course – initial impressions
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Call for ideas: Blogs in education
Can you help me compile the ultimate list of resources for using blogs in learning and teaching? A while ago I did a bit of a bibliography on the use of wikis in learning and teaching [Blog post August 2007]. Together with some practical action research with the use of
Serendipity as a career plan?
I feel at the moment I’m at a chapter break in my life, looking for new opportunities in my working life, and I have been pondering how useful it is to set goals. The task of re-assessing one’s life and career path should always start with establishing one’s values, but
Creating online communities: alternatives to Ning
Now that Ning has announced that it is phasing out free services, it’s time to take another look at our Ning communities and to establish what might be a reasonable alternative to Ning. For my longest-running Ning network, ELESIG, we are prepared: a hard-working group from this community of practice
Lessons from Ning
Sometimes I am accused of being a pessimist: I always treat technology, especially wonderful new inventions, services and applications, with a healthy pinch of salt. So I laughed a bit hollowly to read that Ning are phasing out their free social networks (as well as reducing the number of their
What Twitter taught me today about volcanoes and planes…
The unprecedented closure of the UK’s airspace today due to an ash cloud drifting over the country from a volcanic eruption in Iceland brought out the best in social media as well as traditional media reporting. Twitter was alive with links and explanations, from elearning companies providing free resources for
Nottingham is brimming with new media…
The second Media Camp Nottingham on 27th March was at the excellent venue Lace Market House on High Pavement. One might think from the lack of funding and traditional media and other interest in digital and creative industries that there wasn’t much going on in Nottingham. This second event organised
How get readers to your blog
Any Blog Awareness Campaign should have a number of different elements involving attracting visitors with great content, encouraging them to comment, commenting elsewhere yourself, and making relationships throughout the blogosphere. Such a campaign may include: Brilliant and useful content Register blog with search engines such as Yahoo and Google, don’t