Something hard to maintain in my working life as a learning technologist is the thing called ‘balance’. On a daily basis, there seems to be too much technology and not enough learning. When software developers work hard on improving their products, it’…
Category: technology
Slow musings …
I just noticed that my last entry (about the Brookes Learning and Teaching Conference in July) is already more than half a year old, and I’m asking myself if there isn’t that much happening any longer which would be worthwhile musing about.One of the t…
Slow musings …
I just noticed that my last entry (about the Brookes Learning and Teaching Conference in July) is already more than half a year old, and I’m asking myself if there isn’t that much happening any longer which would be worthwhile musing about.One of the t…
Thing 5: Emoji’s and Diversity
Thing 5 asks you to consider the impact of diverse representation via the emojis we all know and love. I wrote a blog about the impact of emoji’s taking over how we write things, certainly in a colloquial manner. I remember when it was in the news not so long ago, regarding the ability to […]
Thing 4
Thing 4 requires you to consider the data you share with the apps on your mobile and tablet devices. I was encouraged to download an app and then have a look through the list of permissions each of my apps have. Some want to know your exact GPS location, which is understandable for apps such […]
Dream Wall Pitch
This partition of the dream wall, which was created at the JISC Digital Festival 2014 (11/12 March) in Birmingham. At first I wasn’t sure if I should post it, because it seemed a bit ‘out of context’ on its own, but I just discovered that it fits in re…
Dream Wall Pitch
This partition of the dream wall, which was created at the JISC Digital Festival 2014 (11/12 March) in Birmingham. At first I wasn’t sure if I should post it, because it seemed a bit ‘out of context’ on its own, but I just discovered that it fits in re…
Synchronous or asynchronous – is that the question?
The TeaLaB session (Teaching and Learning at Brookes) on Friday 31 January was titled ‘Synchronous technologies – the answer to poor online engagement?’ Its focus was on Abi Ball’s research about the use of synchronous and asynchronous technologies in …
Synchronous or asynchronous – is that the question?
The TeaLaB session (Teaching and Learning at Brookes) on Friday 31 January was titled ‘Synchronous technologies – the answer to poor online engagement?’ Its focus was on Abi Ball’s research about the use of synchronous and asynchronous technologies in …