Well, there are a LOT of people I need to thank for helping me fix a problem of my own making! This is what happened after I posted the story my daughter had written for a competition and which I then forgot to submit for her.
This is my daughter’s story that I forgot to submit to the BBC 500 Words competition. Please help me make amends. Read it and tell her something you like about her story.
TV’s have been a part of our living rooms for many decades and we’ve got used to their status as receivers of information. We now have to adjust to the idea that they are now computers and we should think about them as such.
First ride of 2015. Berwick Hill to Ponteland and back. 15.9 miles in 1:03, 14.9 mph.
As learning technologists, are we helping learners to be sufficiently critical of the tools they are using? We may be enabling students to use technology but are we empowering them to make informed choices? We should encourage learners to be as constructively critical of the nature of the technologies they use as the academic literature they read. This means thinking about business models as much as function and safeguarding.
The sun is setting on my first full week in my new job as a Subject Matter Expert for Jisc. This is the first time in 10 years I’ve been home based. It didn’t enjoy the experience last time around so with that at the back of my mind and the fact that I’m starting a new […]
I’m recently back from celebrating my 40th birthday with my family in Andalusia. Along with all the usual holiday snaps (which get inflicted on my Facebook friends) I tried to take a few more creative photos as I hadn’t caught any images that I was proud of for a while. This is the pick of the bunch. […]
News stories and viral videos about drones seem to crop up on a fairly regular basis but what does the emergence of this new technology mean for education? Here are some of the potential uses of the technology, how it is being used in academia at the moment and considers some of the practical issues.
Too many people say they are not creative when what they actually mean is they can’t draw, dance or play a musical instrument. Creativity is not synonymous with artistic skill. This video of a talk by Aza Raskin shows that creativity is about how you operate within a set of constraints.
Twitter has just rolled out a new Analytics tool to the majority of its users so you can now see a little bit more about what happens in the life of one of your tweets. Just how valuable will this new data set be for most of us?