What are people saying:
EdTech - mobiles, sunnies, sarnies
May 13, 2008
Picture credit: Mom & Mrs Pat Butcher by virgo200745 Grab your floppy hat and sun screen and head out to the bright new day that is the EdTech Summer Picnic: Hyde Park, June 15 2008. This one's in honor of Instructional Media Analyst Stella Lee who's on loan to us from Athabasca University, Canada, ...
From: Josie Fraser - Read more
PERSoNA (Personal Engagement with Repositories through Social Networking Applications)
May 12, 2008
The JISC funded PERSoNA project will develop alongside our main repository project (software to be announced very soon!) and the related Streamline project with the main aim of building a community of users and promoting use of the repository amongst that community via social networking applications. Such applications may include social network websites (Facebook is the most well known ...
From: Nick Sheppard - Read more
Straws in the wind
May 11, 2008
“How’s it going?” That’s a common question, one which is easy to ask and often hard to answer. Why might it be difficult? Well, first, what’s being enquired about? My health or some combination of the various activities in my life? Second, does the questioner really want to know? Can I unburden myself for the next twenty minutes, ...
From: Bob Rotheram - Read more
EDEN on the Tagus
May 09, 2008
This year's EDEN (European Distance and Elearning Network) conference looks like being a real blast. It will be in Lisbon, Portugal, in the middle of June. Last week, I was informed that my paper had been accepted (I will be talking about blogs, would you believe?) and so this week I booked my hotel. Today the message below was ...
From: Steve Wheeler - Read more
Conference announcements
May 07, 2008
I've noticed several conference announcements on Emerge - which is of course fine, as Emerge provides an interested audience. If you have a forthcoming conference to publicise, you may also think about posting to these two sites:Eventseer.net RSS feed: RSS do YOU find out about possibly interesting conferences? Do announcements sometimes clutter your email in-tray? Do you ...
From: Roddy MacLeod - Read more
Skills development conference
May 07, 2008
A date for your diary possibly. The University of Teesside will be hosting a conference on 15th October 2008 featuring papers from 4 U&I Projects working in the 'student skills' cluster : ARGOSI, AWESOME Dissertation, SkillClouds and UKAN-SKILLS. It will be free but with an admin fee for delegates who cancel late or do not attend. More details will ...
From: Paul Mayes - Read more
FreeSat
May 06, 2008
The new free satellite service being offered across the UK probably won't cause any dramatic changes in pay-to-view TV in the coming months. But we could certainly see the demise of FreeView, which the new service could make completely redundant. According to the BBC News service article, FreeSat is going to be made available in 98 per cent of ...
From: Steve Wheeler - Read more
ticTOCs prototype
May 06, 2008
Less than ten days to go now, until the release of the new ticTOCs prototype, which we trust will be much improved on the one currently available, and which should enable us to get the service out there and get some good solid feedback, from the likes of yourself, I hope :-)ticTOCs - Journal Table of Contents Service ...
From: Roddy MacLeod - Read more
Selection of RSS feeds of interest to academics
May 06, 2008
I posted here a selection of RSS feeds which should be of interest to academics. All of these feeds, plus many more, will be harvested by the Gold Dust ...
From: Roddy MacLeod - Read more
devising a classification matrix for uses of Twitter
May 06, 2008
As some people might be aware I've got my teeth into Twitter at the moment. As part of this, I'm wondering if I could devise a robust-ish classification index for the different types of Tweets. The intention is to use this as a way of ...
From: Andy Ramsden - Read more
Emerge community members:
Latest BLOGs