TurningPoint and large lectures
Yesterday evening, Helen Carr (Director of Learning and Teaching and module convenor for LW588 Public Law 1) and I took 100 TurningPoint handsets over to Woolf Lecture Theatre for a lecture Helen was...
View ArticleOn the move
That’s right, I’m on the move. After two years at the Law School I am moving over to UELT on Monday 14 December 2009 to become the Faculty Learning Technologist for Social Sciences. As a result, my...
View ArticleTechnology in the snow
Being a Learning Technologist, it’s only appropriate that I write a blog post about all the technologies that I’ve been using during the snow. Some of the examples below are technologies I’ve been...
View ArticleWhy I won’t be buying an iPad (yet)
I’ve spent the last hour and 40 minutes following live feeds from Apple‘s ‘latest creation’ event where Steve Jobs has just announced the latest shiny Apple toy to grace our palms: the iPad. First, I...
View ArticleOERs in a year or less? We’re not convinced
The learning technologists here at Kent have been reading the 2010 Horizon report preview and we’ve made an initial response here:...
View ArticleOverwhelmed by multiple email accounts and social media accounts? Try Threadsy!
Tired of having to log in to multiple email accounts and social media accounts every morning to check for all your messages? Then perhaps you should try Threadsy. What is Threadsy? Currently in beta,...
View ArticleThreadsy update
Since I last posted about Threadsy, they’ve pushed out some new updates which have (in my opinion) made it even better. For a full description of the changes that have been made, see Threadsy’s blog...
View ArticleOpen Education Resources – How open are you?
Tomorrow I will be attending the Beyond Borders 2010 conference in London. This year the focus is going to be on Open Education Resources (OERs) and how it can best use and support collaboration and...
View ArticleWhy is Twitter useful?
I get a lot of questions about Twitter and it’s uses as a professional tool. This video by JISC goes some way to explaining some it’s uses: http://blip.tv/file/2247053 With thanks to Stuart Johnson at...
View ArticleFinding the true me – reviewing my Digital Identity
Don’t worry, I’m not going through an identity crisis or worried that I don’t have a True Purpose. I have, however, come to realise that my ‘Digital Identity’ (my profiles and online information) are...
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