In Kahoots
For years, educational institutions have bought in various voting systems. You know the ones I mean: they come packed in suitcases with dated-looking voting pads and dongles that require blutooth...
View Article‘Tis the Season
It’s conference time, and in the next few months I’m going to be popping up in several venues around the UK and online. The first of these happened on Friday, where I delivered my first keynote address...
View ArticleHow do you make a Horse Drink?
As a part of my new managerial role I will be collaborating with the School’s Digital Literacy Managers to plan, develop and deliver 2 new staff development curricula. One of these will be for admin...
View ArticleTool Roundup Part 2: Making Online Lessons…Online
NOTE: this post was written in August 2014, but has been languishing, unseen, in my ‘Drafts’ folder since then. As a result, it’s probably very out of date by now – technology years are like dog years...
View ArticleIt’s all Academic!
Working as a Learning Technologist (LT) means that it can be hard to feel a true sense of identity. Rather than sitting squarely in one camp – be it academic or professional support – the LT often has...
View ArticleDisgruntled from Cardiff Writes:
Every evening, at 6.30 I settle down to watch the local news, and (just about) every day, without fail, the lead story involves failings within the Welsh NHS. It’s disheartening, and is starting to...
View ArticleMiddle Aged = Digital Native?
It’s been a busy few months with a pretty full social calendar, a dissertation to finish before the end of September, and a landslide of work-based projects, all of which have conspired against me to...
View ArticleIt’s Raining Tweets…Hallelujah?
Last week I went to one of Jisc’s ‘Connect more’ events where, amongst other things, I tried to get back into the swing of networking (I turn into Alan Partridge when having to make professional small...
View Article#Blimage No.1 ‘Apt considering the weather we’ve been having…’
Last week I discovered the ‘Blimage Challenge’ (BLog IMAGE) which came about when Amy Burvall challenged Steve Wheeler to create a learning-related blog post based on one of her own hand-drawn images....
View Article#Blimage 2: just when you thought it was safe…
This is my second #blimage post, and a much trickier one to write. David Hopkins sent me the image you see on the left, and on seeing it, my immediate thoughts went something like this: ‘Ah yes, it...
View ArticleMy Struggles with Camembert
Today my mojo returned. I’m not sure where it has been for the past 6 months – possibly running a pop-up beard trimming shop in Papua New Guinea – but I won’t question it. I’ll just accept the fact...
View ArticleHome in Time for The A-Team and Tea!
According to the Facebook group to which I was added at the weekend, this year marks the 30th anniversary of the graduation of Liskeard Comprehensive School’s class of ‘86. Looking at the roll call of...
View ArticleInnovate or Die!
The NMC’s ‘On the Horizon’ Report is one I look forward to reading at the start of each year. It’s clearly written, it’s honest and, for me, it’s a pretty good gauge of how successfully and...
View ArticleIgnite Cardiff
That’s not a plea to set fire to my current place of residence, but the name of a bi-monthly presentation night hosted at a The […] The post Ignite Cardiff appeared first on e-Learning Feeds.
View ArticleThe Lecture is Dead. Long Live Lecture Capture!
There are two conflicting themes floating around the wider worlds of technology-enhanced learning at the moment – the notion that the lecture is dead, and at […] The post The Lecture is Dead. Long Live...
View ArticleA Knotty Problem
A few weeks ago I provided technical support at a couple of online exams I’d been involved in. Keeping a long and dull story as […] The post A Knotty Problem appeared first on e-Learning Feeds.
View ArticleLecture Capture Fail
Just watch the pretty roses…. There’s an article online by Mark Smithers called ‘Is lecture capture the single worst educational technology use in higher education?’ […] The post Lecture Capture Fail...
View ArticleThe Ripple Effect
Does anyone else get the same feeling of unease as me when developing something new? Based on a recent request I had from an academic […] The post The Ripple Effect appeared first on e-Learning Feeds.
View ArticleTime Out
It first happened by accident a couple of years ago. It was late summer and me and my partner went on a driving holiday to […] The post Time Out appeared first on e-Learning Feeds.
View ArticleTool Roundup Part 1: Presentations
This is the first in a series of posts looking at a range of new and emerging web tools that can be used to enhance […] The post Tool Roundup Part 1: Presentations appeared first on e-Learning Feeds.
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