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February 21, 2009
Wiki rebus
February 21, 2009
I gave my second year student teachers a 7 day project to tackle this week. It involved them going off in pairs and researching the psychology of the internet, as represented in a number of activities including blogging, using social networks, and effects such as the reduction of social cues, respellings through txting or 'rebus', and the nature ...
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February 19, 2009
Camera-derie?
February 19, 2009
The new Nintendo DSi games console is set to be in UK and US stores as early as first week in April. Here in the UK it is expected to retail for around £150, and will be available in any colour you like, as long as it's black (or white). It has already been available in Japan since ...
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February 18, 2009
Learning with wikis
February 18, 2009
Today I sent back the proofs to a new article due to be published next month in the journal Learning, Media and Technology. I know you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but LMT is one of the most attractive journal covers I've seen. It's also a quality publication, so I'm delighted the article has been accepted. ...
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February 17, 2009
Sea food
February 17, 2009
The whole event is going to be quite memorable. The 4th Plymouth e-Learning Conference in April is attracting delegates from all over the world and is shaping up into what will be a great two-day event. So far, delegates have registered from Australia, New Zealand, and from all over Europe, Russia, Jordan, Pakistan, Iran, Nigeria, the list goes ...
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February 13, 2009
Being there
February 13, 2009
Well, I finally managed yesterday to get some time to complete a proposal for a workshop at ALT-C 2009. I co-authored the abstract with Tara Alexander, who is in the Faculty of Health and Social Work here at the University of Plymouth. I won't spill the beans on the workshop topic just yet, but it is ironic that, ...
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February 10, 2009
Safe is as safe does
February 10, 2009
There is a lot of talk at the moment about how safe personal spaces are, and about how secure our personal data is on social networking sites. Over on our online e-learning community Digifolios and Personal Spaces we are busy debating some of these questions. As I ponder these issues, I'm mindful of the movie Forrest Gump, starring ...
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February 09, 2009
Hard cell
February 09, 2009
Most readers will know that many schools throughout the UK and other countries have a long standing ban on the use of cell/mobile phones within school grounds. This is due to a number of unhappy incidents involving on-board cameras used to record and glamourize so-called 'happy slapping' and other aggresive and anti-social activities. There is also the concern ...
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February 06, 2009
Imagined worlds
February 06, 2009
Here's my last post reviewing the new publication 'Connected Minds, Emerging Cultures'. When we started out writing our chapter on cybercultures, Helen Keegan and I didn't know that it would eventually end up being the final chapter in the book. We first hit on the idea for the chapter while we were talking together at Online Educa - ...
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February 05, 2009
Give PLEs a chance
February 05, 2009
This is my penultimate post in the series reviewing the new book 'Connected Minds, Emerging Cultures'. This post features Graham Attwell's chapter on the social impact of personal learning environments (PLEs). Graham, as director of the Wales based independent research agency Pontydysgu (Bridge to Learning) is deeply embroiled in the study of emerging learning technologies. In his chapter, ...
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February 04, 2009
Cyborg nation?
February 04, 2009
Here's a continuation of my post-publication review of the highlights of 'Connected Minds, Emerging Cultures' - the book on cybercultures in online learning released last week by Information Age Publishers, USA. Chapter 12 is called 'Cyber Theory and Learning' and was written by Vasi van Deventer of the University of South Africa. Vasi has written an engaging and ...
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