June 22, 2008
I have just arrived back in the UK via Bristol airport and have driven straight over to the beautiful city of Bath. Tomorrow I will be speaking at a staff development workshop on Web 2.0 at the University of Bath, on the invite of the Head of e-Learning, Andy Ramsden. I keep bumping into Andy all over the place, ...
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June 19, 2008
It’s the first day of the Polish Virtual Universities conference here in Warsaw and I must admit I’m feeling a little lost. I opened the conference with the first keynote of this three day event, and then it was all downhill from there in. The audience was disturbingly quiet, but I’m told that this is the way they listen ...
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June 09, 2008
I'm taking part in a live podcast tonight for Emerging Mondays using Skype direct from my new wireless laptop. I actually managed to get the blasted software to download on the third attempt. Must have been a flaky wireless connection. I'm going to be talking about social software and open content for e-learning, and will be in conversation with the show's ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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April 26, 2008
I have just posted up a FaceBook site to announce next year's Plymouth eLearning Conference (23-24 April, 2009). Next year we will be under the banner of 'Crossing Boundaries: Redefining Learning Space'. As with this year's conference, we will be in the eyecatching Roland Levinksy Arts Building (pictured). All are invited from any sectors of education and training, and ...
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April 25, 2008
Just enjoyed an interesting half hour testing out the Elluminate Live! platform in preparation for a panel session I will be doing with Helen Keegan and Nicholas Breakwell for the Sloan Consortium Conference. It will be held on 9 May and hosted by Pheonix University, Arizona. The moderator for the session will be Gary Morrison, and my invite to ...
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