Graduation versus Learning. People don’t want to learn they wan’t to graduate. This isn’t their fault. In fact its ours. If we wanted people to learn we’d tell them to go read wikipedia, read the bible, read the works of shakespeare, read Jung, Popper, Knuth, Shirkey, Taleb, Buddah, Confuscius, Kawasaki, Seuss, Ellroy, Dawkins, Poe, De [...]
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I smiled when I read the title of Jon Dron’s paper “Any Color you like as long as its Blackboard” which is about Virtual Learning Environments. Blackboard, TopClass, FirstClass - it’s interesting how we use metaphors from our existing practice to brand eLearning Platforms.
Within the field of technology acceptance models however [...]
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By definition not everyone can be an innovator. If everyone were being innovative innovation would be the norm. Innovation will always be aberrant. Because we cannot predict the future we cannot say whether a given innovation is good or bad, only that it is different from the norm. In the research [...]
These tools are not sexy. They do not integrate with Twitter or Facebook. They will not transform the way we teach, learn, think or live. They are only useful for some of the small tedious tasks that go on behind the scenes of e-learning:
pdf to html convert a PDF document to html. Incredibly useful. Free. [...]
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If you live in Europe you know that the mobile operators are serious cash cows. If you live in Ireland you feel this pain pretty acutely as everything has become ludicrously dear here (isn’t this what happened in Iceland towards the end?).
The problem is that the mobile operators, like the broadband ones, have [...]
Because I am lazy I always have a list of things I would like to blog about but never seem to get around to. I may write about some of these things in the future but I will need to chose which one(s). Here is today’s list - anything grab your fancy?
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I have been thinking about Moodle and Twitter lately. They share something in common. From a certain vantage they both look like a stream of babbling data. People frequently complain about the amount of emails they get from Moodle forums or how they can keep up to date with active Moodle forums and not get [...]
Want to make Moodle and Twitter talk in a basic way? Very simple, just turn on RSS feeds in your forums and run it through a Twitter account. If your system administrator is too busy fighting fires in the server room (i.e. playing online games with Troll in the title) to enable RSS there is [...]
I was in a meeting very recently. In a discussion on promotional material bookmarks were suggested. Some thought that this would not exude a high tech image. One wag referred to them as “anti-social bookmarks” with a wry smile. The bookmarks idea did have a nice ring to it though. It’s retro and bookmarks are [...]
