I am not a number . . .

Until schoolgirl victims of nasty crimes were found to be in the list of phones ‘hacked’ by journalists the general feeling I detected amongst friends and colleagues was of little real concern. I’m…

This is an excellent article on the subject of child protection and how managers scared of their institution being sued ban access and stifle communication.

Someone should now write in a similar…

This animation is from Michael Feldstein at a Sakai Conference in July 2010. I think the conference was about innovation in teaching. I have to admit to not having heard of it before but the ideas…

Once upon a time there was ILT. Then it became e-learning or elearning and now it’s … well … both and yet neither one nor the other. I’ve always liked information learning technology. It…

I’ve got a presentation to make soon to a University about how students can use Microsoft’s OneNote to keep activity logs, notes, plan to meet learning outcomes, liaise with tutors and maintain a…

Something else I need to research is a forum. A colleague at an institution I work with has suggested that we should have one for distance learning students. Now forums, or fora I suppose, have been…

In a couple of months I shall walk into a classroom and there’ll be around 20 new faces looking at me and wondering just what they’ve let themselves in for. I tended to think the same thing some…

And it’s still free, that’s like a bonus! The latest improvement that I’m itching to try is in options available when making Google Forms. Forms are already a brilliant way to add lots of interest to…

This is quite remarkable. The very idea that ‘normal’ people can make applications, sorry, they’re called apps now, for their mobile is just so hard to grasp. Yet it seems to be true and could be one…

We love images. But lots of staff and students still seem to have trouble resizing them to share, whether by e-mail or in documents.

Thanks to an E-learning colleague for reminding me about XP…