I love this idea. “Baby duck syndrome” is when a shiny new piece of technology, software or gadget comes out and all the early adopters jump on the bandwagon and tweet, blog and generally share that it’s the best thing since sliced bread. Those suffering from baby duck syndrome immediately
OK, I have to throw my hands up and admit – I haven’t been blogging as much in the past few weeks. I’m sure others will sympathise – I’ve seen a few bloggers recently deciding to close down blogs to concentrate on new projects and jobs. I started a new
Back in August 2009 I wrote a post explaining how to shorten a URL in order to share it on Twitter and other social networks. When every character counts, as in the 140 characters permitted per tweet, then a URL can take up far too many characters, and in the
I’ve been looking for a really good way to provide a mechanism that allows readers to share the content on my website. I’ve tried a variety of WordPress apps, but none of them work very well. Now I’ve installed Wibiya (see the toolbar below) which so far works well. It’s
Once a month I like to look back on what I was blogging about this time last year and in previous years. It often prompts reflection on how things have – or have not – changed and where I have moved on to. In July 2009 I was looking at
I often look for people to follow on Twitter who are in a certain area, or have a particular area of expertise. Twitter itself doesn’t have a way to search bios or locations very successfully, so Twitter apps like TweepSearch :: Twitter Profile and Bio Search are very useful. I
Those of us who use Twitter as a Personal Learning Network tool (PLN) don’t need convincing that Twitter is useful for learning. There are innumerable resources discussing this, and even more describing and explaining how to use Twitter for personal learning and for social learning. Jane Hart covers the basics
At the OU Teaching and Learning Conference I was fascinated by a talk on SocialLearn by Simon Buckingham Shum. SocialLearn is the Open University’s social learning solution that is currently being developed. It aims to be a social learning space which can integrate existing tools in the OU and the
Twitter really can take up your whole day! It’s a whole continuing professional education all by itself, if you follow the right people and follow up on links to blogs and websites that people point out. So if you want to have a life as well as reading Twitter (let
A collection of the most useful websites and blogs I’ve come across in the past month: e-learning and social media E-learning The BBC’s learning design toolkit incorporates some familiar elements of thinking about learning, with some new approaches in a conceptual toolkit intended to guide the work of anyone involved