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November 16, 2008

Full Fat Feeds

November 16, 2008

It's great to see so many projects syndicating their web and blog content over to the site - it means that the community can share and connect in one handy place. Some of the feeds coming over are restricted however, meaning that people have to click through to the original site to view the entire post. I'd like to ...

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November 12, 2008

What’s in it for them?

November 12, 2008

An interesting discussion at the Repository Day on Monday with one of our X-stream (VLE) team leaders. His question to us could we give him a 10-word summary of the benefits the Repository would bring to an average overworked academic. For the research side it is fairly cut and dried. Research assessment is in future ...

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November 10, 2008

Repository Tools Taster Day

November 10, 2008

Today the Streamline project final got to show of the Metadata prototype to none-project members. As part of a joint taster session with the Repostory and PERsONA projects, we invited members of LeedsMet staff to enjoy a presentation and get hands on with various tools. Over the course of the day various groups were entertained ...

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October 29, 2008

e-framework workshop from John (Heap)…..

October 29, 2008

  I, along with a lot of other bright people, have just attended the JISC e-framework workshop in London.  Well, we thought we were bright when we turned up …. but now we’re not so sure.   We just know we’re confused.    The workshop was not what most of us expected.  We thought we were going to ...

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October 19, 2008

Notes towards Digital Literacy

October 19, 2008

Anyone who has talked to me for any length of time over the past couple of years will have been hard pressed to have avoided my growing preoccupation with the UK's digital literacy agenda, or rather, lack of one. However, while I've been talking about this a lot, I haven't made many written remarks outside of policy contributions ...

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September 25, 2008

Being There

September 25, 2008

Photo credit: Invasion by Henryleelucas Dave White's recent post, Not 'Natives' or 'Immigrants' but 'Visitors' & 'Resident' slipped by largely without comment, which is a huge shame and one I'm happy to try and remedy a little here. It's a must-read post because it does what a lot of people have been trying to do ...

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September 14, 2008

ALT-C 2008: Radio, edubloggers, edupunks & digital divides

September 14, 2008

So this is my round up of some of the highlights of my ALT-C2008, and links to some of the stuff we made & documented. Thanks to ALT for an excellent conference, and to everyone who I was lucky enough to get to hang out with this year. As Steve Wheeler's already noted, it was a excellent ...

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September 11, 2008

Learning Technologist of the Year 2008

September 11, 2008

I'm delighted & honored to have won the Individual Award for 2008 Learning Technologist of the Year (pfd) at last nights ALT-C 2008 Gala dinner. The Award aims to celebrate and reward "excellent practice & outstanding achievement in the learning technology field", and was presented at the ALT conference in Leeds last night by David Cavallo, Chief Learning ...

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September 05, 2008

4th ALT-C Edubloggers meetup

September 05, 2008

Really looking forward to our fourth ALT-C Edublogger meetup next week, taking place at Leeds Student Union Mine Bar, 19.30 onwards. The Alt-C evening meal (for those who are attending the conference & have signed up for it) is served in the adjacent Refectory building, and as usual will provide a handy initial meeting point for some of ...

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September 03, 2008

Digital Divide slam invite

September 03, 2008

I'm off to ALT-C next week, along with most of the UKs edtechs and learning technologists. I'll be pretty busy, supporting the 4th annual ALT-C Edublogger meetup, helping host the Emerge reception & live radio broadcast, and contributing to the F-ALT fringe activities. I'm really excited to be teaming up again with with Frances Bell, Helen Keegan and ...

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