The Accidental Technologist

Ponderings on Space, Learning, Technology and Choice

We have been given a couple of research papers for critically evaluation. One of them is by Dunleavy et al (2007) which looks at the "value addedness" of the one child per laptop (OLPC) project. What struck me here is that there are similarities between...

Design Personas and UCD

My University is involved in phase two of JISC's Institutional Innovation Programme:"This programme represents a £13.08m investment aimed at supporting existing institutional strategies by providing solutions to institution-wide problems, based upon...

Behind the Green Door

The Stallion of the South

So now we know, the 50m (that's as tall as Nelson's Column or the Statue of Liberty) Ebbsfleet Landmark that will be towering over Ebbsfleet International to the tune of £2m (don't worry whereas "The Angel" was funded with public...

Gnaws

It probably has hasn't escaped your notice that something very sinister and very disturbing is happening in Britain's woodlands It would seem that squirrels are now developing some very bad press of late, a long catalogue of misdemeanours include: setting...