I’m still looking forward to the day when we ask students to switch on their phones rather than to switch them off, so I like this post from John Hardison on the Getting Smart blog. It has a long list of good ideas
The NMC Horizon Report claims to be “an unbiased source of information that helps education leaders, trustees, policy makers, and others easily understand the impact of key emerging technologies on education, and when they are likely to enter mainstream use.” There are
I recently attended the first day on the 13th annual Durham University Blackboard USer Group Conference, which brings together many colleagues working in the field of TEL to share good practice. There were a number of sessions I was particularly
During the OER project meetings I’ve been sitting and thinking. In the olden days I used to make little resources – things like animations or spreadsheets that illustrated some abstruse aspect of analytical chemistry or simple web pages. At the time I
This project (and my learning technologist buddy Russell!) has prompted me to achieve another first! I have increasing used my iPad during class to capture and share outputs from group activities etc but for the first time I have created
Just completed a project overview vodcast for the HEA conference in early July – I had hoped to rope in other members of the team but due to holidays etc we were stuck with me – many thanks to Paul
As expected this was a stimulating conference and I have brought back lots of ideas we could follow up on here – I intend to chat to Paul Durston about what might be worthwhile/possible to progress. There was a good
Why are there never enought hours in the day? One of the key learning points for anyone contemplating developing a DL module or programme is how much time it takes. Thought I’m well aware of this, its still a surpise
Firstly let me start with offering my thanks to Durham University Learning Technologies Team for organising the event and being great hosts. Also apologies that I have a limited amount of photographs as I did not play the role of the paparazzi this year. The ones I do have, mainly of the food as I was very impressed by the catering, have already been used by Chris.
This year the theme was Location, Location, Location and they definitely have the right location to host this conference; a picturesque and beautiful city…
One of the questions which was raised at Technology Enhanced Learning Working Group last term about anxieties – or whether we should be anxious – about the use of social media by students, staff and students and staff together. On
