For my second module, I’ve chosen to undertake “Effective Course Design in e-Learning“. As a full-time learning technologist, an apsect of my job is to ensure that our staff are using the VLE (Blackboard in our case) as appropriately, effectively and efficiently as possible. We are not talking about using a VLE to replace traditonal […]
Wow, kudos to Jen Ross for getting my EduSpaces blog entries into the Holyrood Park / Elgg site so quickly and relatively painlessly. Perhaps I should start a “Give Jen a Pay Rise” community group on here Update Jen informs me that she can’t take all the credit for the smooth transition from EduSpaces. A […]
So here we are, the final leg of a 12 week journey that is “Digital Environments“. This is the first time that I have done an online course taught at a distance. I already had some experience with a correspondance course; which I did, in part, to test the waters to see if I had […]
Came across a rather interesting blog article from EduSpaces user AWyatt called “Academic Facebook: Lessons learned so far“. AWyatt has been using Facebook to talk to students outside of the class and offers some interesting insights upon it’s use: Things I have done that I thought were positive: Have messaged conversations about issues that matter, […]
I came across Lynetter‘s Flickr account whilst looking for a picture on “digital natives” / “digital immigrants“. She has an area called “Interesting Snippets” which used to be called “Online Developments“. This is my personal dumping ground for various cool quotes, the odd stat, as slides to talk around when describing how things are changing […]
The notion of “Millennials” (Howe & Strauss, 2000), “digital natives” (Prensky, 2001), “net gen” (Oblinger, 2005), “technological generation” (Monereo, 2004) and Frand’s (2000) ten attributes of the “information-age mindset” is of great interest to me. Why? Well, my institution was awarded, this year, with some HEA Pathfinder funding to equip some of our lecturers with […]
In my first blog entry, I mentioned that I had read Dreyfus’ “On the Internet“, which I described as a: …fascinating, philosophical and accessible tome that looked at the Internet and, in particular, distance learning in a critical and provocative way. Oddly enough I went to see Dr David Starkey (“the rudest man in Britain“) who […]
The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself falling down what seemed to be a very deep well. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, L. Carroll (1865) I am still feeling quite […]
Five years from now a social networking site without a 3D universe will look like a dinosaur. Mark Kern, President of Red 5 Studios. March 2007 I went along to the Tuesday evening induction session for Second Life that was conducted by Fiona and Sian. This was followed up by a session on how to […]
Reading Landow’s seminal work brought me crashing back to 1997, when I was tentatively experimenting with web pages and got all hot and flustered when I discovered a new literary form called HyperFiction. The world wide web was so new, shiny and unsullied – an undiscovered country waiting to be explored. …hypermedia is an enabling […]