In light of all the discussions we’ve had in the team recently about the dangers of technology starting to drive learning, rather than the other way round, Natalie shared a paper with us examing issues of carts and horses (Sankey 2020). It’s a very readable paper, and has lots of things that are very relevant…
Category: Web 2.0
It’s the end of Semester – but not as we know it!
Exams are over, students would have been leaving Dundee, had the year not changed so dramatically in March. I didn’t post last week – I think that ABC’s (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) article “the dreaded third quarter of lockdown” rang very true for me, in particular You’ve hidden the notifications from a recently downloaded exercise app…
Just a 4 day week :)
Two four day weeks, actually, with a 4 day weekend between. That really helped me this week, I think. I’d not realised how tired I was getting (or grumpy, though I suspect colleagues may have …) The weekend was spent well away from the computer – mostly in the garden, trying to prepare a bed…
“On this day”
Facebook’s “On this day” often throws up things I’d totally forgotten about. Today’s was work related, and, in many ways, it’s still as relevant now as it was 7 years ago: I’m recently starting to think more and more about Web2.0 and teaching; more specifically how much is actually web2.0 (on the assumption it can…
Wordle – Twitter.
As I’ve not written anything here to Wordle, thought I’d try creating one from my twitter a/c … (Created with the help of Tweetstats)…
Uni's Closed – but how did you know.
Following a post from Brian Kelly, I started thinking about how University of Portsmouth let students/staff know that it was closed today. We had a number of sources: Twitter: @portsmouthuni @portsmouthsu @uoplibrary Websites One on the Uni site & one on the Student Union Site Email … though there only seemed to be an all…
Web2.0 or …
Im recently starting to think more and more about Web2.0 and teaching; more specifically how much is actually web2.0 (on the assumption it can be defined) and how much is what Im getting the students to do (or, indeed, what I, as I extend my own knowledge am doing). Is just looking at videos on…
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SlideSix
I’ve not had a chance to look at SlideSix yet, but the review at FreeTech4teachers & what I can see so far, it looks as if it could be a good rival to SlideRocket – which I rather like. (I’m also hoping to test out Prezi at some point in the not too distant future!)…
Examples of digital innovation in government
The DUIS have set up a site to list examples of digital innovation in government. It’s created using the tag digitalgovuk in Del.icio.us – so updates as new sites are added. At the moment, it’s an interesting looking list of useful sites (&, so far, not spammed to death!)…