Central ITV news filmed me in a mini workshop at a school in Nottingham. Yesterday the story ran on prime time local news about the search by a group of young French artists to find the artist who drew Fat Gourg in our Kids on the Net project, Monster Motel.
One of the steps to facilitating deeper learning is to get your group of learners to “gel”. Icebreakers and group work can help to get students working together and supporting each others’ learning. This needs to happen in the online environment as much as in the classroom and is one
Our academic colleagues, clients and partners might be interested in the webinar we are running tomorrow, Friday 27th June, in the ELESIG community. ELESIG (the Higher Education Academy’s Special Interest Group for the Learners’ Experience of Elearning) is a community for researchers and practitioners who are looking at evaluating the
Recently I’ve been finding that a lot of emails promoting events and conferences, and even company newsletters, are arriving in my inbox just in image form – or PDF – with an email saying no more than “see attachment”. I find these very frustrating and here’s why. Am I the
This is a summary by Lynn Tveskov of part of the recent discussion in the Best Practice Models community on Communities of Practice. From here this post is all Lynn’s summary: In the spirit of the practice we are setting up around public blogging about our discussion, I will put
Stephanie Booth recently posted an argument against threaded conversations on blogs. I have to say that I disagree to a large extent with what she says as well as the people she quotes, although I don’t deny some of her points. I believe that there is a very good case
A post from 2006 in Learning Alliances defines the concept of “technology stewardship” “Technology stewards are people with enough experience of the workings of a community to understand its technology needs, and enough experience with technology to take leadership in addressing those needs. Stewardship typically includes selecting and configuring technology,
There are all sorts of reasons why one wants to analyse an online community – finding out who are the busiest and most informative posters is one possible requirement. I just spotted an old article from New Scientist (well, July 2007) that describes how researchers at Cornell University, New York,
I will be attending the NLab Social Networks Conference in June. The conference aims to explore the benefits of social networks for business http://www.nlabnetworks.com/ Thursday 19th & Friday 20th June 2008 De Montfort University, Leicester, UK * What is a social network and how can it generate wealth for your
Following the publication of Dr Tanya Byron’s report Safer Children in a Digital World for Ofcom, much is being said in the news media about the dangers for children online. Parents are being frightened into believing the only safe solution is to sit beside their child whilst they are online,