It’s been an exciting week, as I am changing jobs. Instead of mostly being at University of Leicester with a little bit of consultancy, I will now be mostly working as a consultant with Reach Further Ltd., headquartered in Leeds, and spend less time working for Leicester, as the Adelie
I was preparing a “checklist” for e-moderators of online communities and thought I’d post some of the more important and skilled tasks that e-moderators need to do and to evaluate themselves on. So often we hear managers who believe that anyone can run a community – they think: “how difficult
Circlo: A tetris shooting gamehttp://www.andkon.com/arcade/tetris/circlo/ Flow in games – strangely addictive creature gamehttp://intihuatani.usc.edu/cloud/flowing/ And some interesting blogs/articles about using games in learning (as if that makes it OK…) Getting It Wrong: Slaying Myths About Video Games (Part 1) Learning in Video Games (a group blog) Futurelab handbook on Games and
The Open University have proved elearning is green (bit of an old study, but I would think computers are even more energy efficient now…) “A study by the Open University found that on average ‘distance/open learning courses used 90% less energy consumption and produced 90% fewer CO2 emissions than the
The University of Leicester is having a Big Green Week from October 15-19 and various events are taking place. In another environmentally friendly initiative, soon all our litter bins will be removed from our offices and we will have to walk to the nearest recycling bin. (May I say that
Having just been interviewed about mobile learning for the new WolF project, I thought I’d jot down some of my thoughts! Good examples of mobile learning: There are several good examples of podcasting in the IMPALA project Students doing work-based learning and work placements benefit from mobile learning in a
Here are some issues that have been mentioned to me (by academic staff) about integrating Web 2.0 technologies into institutional VLEs, and how they might be overcome. Institutional IT policy can be a barrier – you don’t know what’s available.Fear of “what people will say” How to cope with the
http://voicethread.com/This is a great Web 2.0 application – you can put up a photo or picture and others can comment using voice or text… I can see a lot of applications for this one, in learning, art & creativity, leisure, family… Lucy Gray’s blog A Teacher’s Life. Lucy is an
Beware if you’re using Excel for certain calculations. The 2007 version of the software has a bug in it. If you have a copy try asking it to calculate 77.1 times 850. Here’s a clue – the answer should be 65,535 But in Excel 2007 it’s 10,000! The explanation is
Jack Schofield at the Guardian has blown the myth that a black background to Google will save the planet… Blackle.com is a search engine that claims to save thousands of watts of energy by searching Google (to which it has no connection) with a black background instead of a white