Tuesday, May 24, 2011

#teachmeet Five Years of Teachmeets

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Subheading could be five years of teachmeets and the world is a better place but it has not changed. Five years ago some folks working ...
Monday, May 23, 2011

The Case for Open Educational Resources and Open Books

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I would like to see Scottish Colleges and Schools plugged in more actively to the growing open educational resource movement. I have made th...

Talking Dog

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This week we've watched this clip every night - it cracks my kids up. We want to know where we can buy a talking dog ? We'd like...
Saturday, May 21, 2011

#open4ed Open for Education and RSC North and East Last Post

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Attribution: Image: ' One more from the Storr ' http://www.flickr.com/photos/59562171@N00/88904665 and with thanks to Carol Walke...
Thursday, May 19, 2011

Technologies for Learning Strategy #ediff #TforL

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Now the election is over it is great to see some things starting to move quite quickly again. One area is that of technologies for learnin...
Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Amusing Guide to Making Folks Feel Old

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Battleship Potemkin is off the scale then ..

Typing Shop Abu Dhabi

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Typing Shop , a photo by joecar80 on Flickr. I'm sure they will move on to other devices - but worth a pause for thought. These shops ...
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Five Big Mistakes in Virtual Education

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Liked this as a presentation and for way it handles some challenges. Still not certain there is enough learning around this being shared bet...
Monday, April 11, 2011

Get Thinking through Images

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Just thought this was such a wonderful animated gif from Dr Strangelove . I found this and lots of other images that are food for thought at...
Tuesday, April 05, 2011

ELearning Alliance

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Spent this morning with old and new friends at the E-Learning Alliance having a look at ;  their mission, the support they provide to memb...
Monday, April 04, 2011

The Role of New Media in Vocational Education

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I spend a lot of the time trying to explain things that George Siemens seems to have developed a knack for.  Link above links to two really ...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Meta Data in Music and everything else

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3D Data from Decibel on Vimeo . I am not sure how this arrived on my desktop this morning - but it is a great example of how metadata c...
Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Scottish Parliament Dissolution

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The Scottish Parliament election takes place on 5th May 2011, and the formal election period begins on 23 March following dissolution of Par...
Monday, February 28, 2011

The Finland Phenomenon: Inside the World's Most Surprising School System

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As hype continues around Finland's amazing educational achievemennts cynic in me suspects that we might be about to get 5 years of Finn...
Friday, February 11, 2011

New Improved ScotEdublogs

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John Johnstone   and   Robert Jones   have once again been  updating the platform that Scotedublogs sits on .They are stars and I was gla...

I Digress Digress.it

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What is digress.it and why use it? from University of Lincoln on Vimeo . I was enjoying looking around the excellent http://jiscpress.o...
Wednesday, February 09, 2011

Open but Tough

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Open but Tough from Commonwealth of Learning on Vimeo . Here are some very sage words from Sir John Daniels on open education and on a...

1964 JOHNNY SEVEN OMA TOY GUN COMMERCIAL

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Amused friend's kids have finished with antique toy we passed on when we cleared family home and wonders if I want it back. Not sure t...
Monday, February 07, 2011

Future of Mobile Learning

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Near and far contemplating (nfc) View more presentations from andyjb . Here is a great presentation from Andy Black on what is just aroun...
Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Rethinking Education

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Guessing I'll see this a lot of times over next few months. But real question is how are we are using these changes to shift education ...