I was intrigued to see that in Canada they are reporting that the use of social networking and other web tools such as Twitter and Facebook is damaging the quality of students’ English skills. Apparently academics at Waterloo University, Ontario and Simon Fraser University, British Columbia are finding that many students
A study at the University of Plymouth once looked at graduate students’ use of Web 2.0 technologies when they were studying in their daily working environment. The study found that at least 50% of the applications students had open at any one time were actually leisure applications. The kind of
Blogger Alan Levine recently commented on the problems of social media and web applications letting you down just when you need them. In Don’t Cry When Social Media Flops, Just Move On he talked about what happens when the tool you use goes down, particularly in the context of conferences
Today I learned how to solve outgoing email problems. The problem: Email was coming into a new installation of Thunderbird but outgoing mail was throwing up an error message. We checked: The details of the outgoing mail server The usernames and passwords of the relevant accounts The security requirements of
There’s been an interesting discussion over at the ELESIG community (ELESIG is the HEA Special Interest Group for researchers into the learner experience of elearning),about “What was your first experience of computer technology?” and how it affected people’s subsequent ventures into using computers for work and learning. I’ve been interested
The BBC reports today on the closure of two digital radio stations, The Jazz and Planet Rock from GCap Media. They state that “DAB Digital radio is being portrayed in some quarters as the 21st century’s version of Betamax, the video format that lost out to VHS in the 1970s.”
You may like to know about www.venturenavigator.co.uk. It’s a free software based business evaluation engine. It’s the first thing I’ve found (apart from going through a Dragon’s Den process!) that helps you see if an idea could be turned into a sustainable business. It can also be used by an
So there’s nothing to worry about – healthwise – from mobile phone masts. That’s certainly reassuring – for most of us. Mobile phone masts are not responsible for the symptoms of ill health some blame them for, say researchers at the University of Essex. Dozens of people who believed the
1. SmartBoard – saved Flickr favorites in a mosaic, 2. Wireless world, 3. montage, 4. kid_camera_rwanda photography workshop 2006, 5. Pioneer’s” Hologram, 6. Ballroon Dancing Robot, 7. Nasa Exhibit, 8. Da Weeg (is nerdcurious), 9. The Techno Two
So often those who start using learning technologies (or creative technologies, or social technologies….) carry over into the new context assumptions, methods and processes that were appropriate in the old context but not in the new. However, it can take time for new ways of working to be discovered and