Dr. Ringmar, from the LSE, has been officially reprimanded for his blog. This actually seems to be the end of a story, and one that’s got several aspects to it. From the summary on the Guardian Website, he’d said during an Open Day (for prospective students), that most lecturers were busy doing research, and they…
Blogging IT and EDucation
Email as collaboration.
Central Desktop Blog have made two posts about various aspects of email as a collaboration tool. The articles concentrate on the “good” & “bad”, though the comments tend to cover both! Central Desktop themselves market a wiki tool for collaboration, though say that a lot of their internal communication is email based….
Coming of Age: An introduction to the NEW worldwide web
Anne Davies linked to this book edited Terry Freedman; he’s got an impressive list of contributors, and the book is one good idea following another. She quotes Peter Ford saying: Terrys view was that this should be a free download to encourage the widest possible audience To do that, it’s best to go to his…
Windows Live Academic
Windows Live Academic Home Page. Yet another “Google got there first, so we’d better catch up” idea from MS. This time it’s the ability to search academic texts. How it will compare to Google Scholar and/ or existing services such as Emerald etc., remains to be seen….
Pupils to sit first online exams
BBC NEWS | Scotland | Pupils to sit first online exams. In this case, it’s going to be multiple choice questions in Biotechnology. I hope that at some stage (preferably not too far away), some of the types of question that were tested by students in Northern Ireland can be used. I’m no longer able…
Watch the Fource
Watch the Fource Episode 3 features a female tecchy….
It's getting noisy
Konrad Glogowski has a wonderful description of his blogging community … I feel like I am in a very noisy place. Its like being in a tiny cafe where, around each tiny table, there are conversations that you overhear as you order your latte and check your pockets for change. I’d love our MSc eLearning…
Wiki supporting a book.
The Wealth of Networks has a wiki to support the book. What’s not entirely clear is if the intention is to develop an independent network of readers, or if it’s more of a way of advertising the book. The book is available for download. There’s a link to Amazon, if you want to buy the…
HigherEd BlogCon
HigherEd BlogCon is over now, but there’s a wealth of information deserving a closer look up….
The world as you've never seen it before
Worldmapper: Starting with a map that’s more or less the Peter’s Projection, the WorldMapper group have re-drawn the map looking at a number of different statistics. From several different links….