English 4040 Arrived here via a slightly circuitous route (starting from a link in Will Richard’s blog, then to the schedule for Unit 1. This is a list of resources etc., which I suspect will grow as the term progresses. Looking at the blog for the course Since I didn’t really care to read about…
Blogging IT and EDucation
The augmented worker
Jay Cross starts off by looking back to his school days – when slide rules ruled, and pocket calculators just added up. (I’m not quite that old, but maths was definitely log books only, though calculators could be used for Physics etc). The main point though is looking at how things have changed over time…
Computer games 'motivate pupils'
BBC NEWS A third of teachers are using computer games in the classroom and a majority believe they improve pupils’ skills and knowledge, a survey suggests. There isn’t any mention made in the article about what games (if any) were involved in this first stage – i.e what’s going on now. However, they have said…
Upgrading to 2.0
I finally managed it the other day. I’m not sure what I was doing wrong, though I suspect that the fact that I didn’t have much webspace wasn’t helping, when trying to extract files etc. After a lot of attempting to delete whole directories in WS-FTP lite (is there a way to get it to…
An Introduction to Connective Knowledge
Stephen Downes actually posted this nearly two months ago, just before Christmas. I’ve finally read it, and it’s well worth reading. He’s looking at knowledge in general, and with lots of concrete examples, it’s very easy to read. Thanks, Steven….
Free Software as a Social Movement
ZNet |Corporate Globalization | Free Software as a Social Movement An interview with Richard Stallman of the Free Software Movement. Given the title of this article, and his book “Free softwre, Free Society“, (available as pdf, as well as hardback!) it’s not unsurprising to discover that he sees very close links between free & open…
What's going on inside our heads.
Anne Davies has made an insighful post about the reflective side of blogging; she’s got a list of questions she tells her students to think about when blogging; then links to other blog posts about reflection. Demonstrates that she’s well deserved her EduBlog award!…
So I have a blog
Tim Berners-Lee has a blog As he says: In 1989 one of the main objectives of the WWW was to be a space for sharing information. It seemed evident that it should be a space in which anyone could be creative, to which anyone could contribute So, after doing a lot of offline content creating,…
Grading Blogs
Blogs / Weblogs in Higher Education We haven’t yet started to grade blog use, though I have attempted to grade contributions to discussion boards. These seem like some useful pointers though – covering both technical and pedagogic points….
Using Blogs to Teach Philosophy
Using blogs to teach philosophy. This opens with the statement Students taking their first philosophy course often express surprise when encouraged to use I in their papers. Unlike academic writing in most other disciplines, philosophical writing frequently and strongly states the I because philosophers have to develop and defend their own positions. They cannot weasel…