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Over the last two years of owning the iPad, I have downloaded lots of different apps, some of which were free and a fair few that cost hard cash! At the recent JISC RSC SW TurboTEL event in Taunton I...
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Three years ago I wrote this blog post on the “end” of Twitter. Three years later Twitter is bigger than ever… Was I wrong? No in that article I wrote One day we will no longer be using Twitter and...
View ArticleA Closed Group
Back in 2009 at ALT-C we had the VLE is Dead debate. My view back then hasn’t changed much in the last four years. To save you watching the video, the heart of my viewpoint was that the VLE was the...
View ArticleThe Real Generation Gap
So how do people across different age groups use social media? An infographic that explores the differences in how various age groups use social media. As you might expect the teens do dominate social...
View ArticleGreat Scott! – Back to the Future at FOTE15
There wasn’t a FOTE conference in 2015, which was a pity as it was one of my favourite annual events. I spoke at many of the conferences, most recently in 2014 when I spoke about the conflict between...
View ArticleSocial Media in FE and Skills – #jisc50social
So are you using social media effectively to enhance, enrich teaching and learning and assessment in FE and Skills? Maybe you are using Twitter to enhance learning through the use of Twitterchats or...
View ArticleJust checking the e-mail…
What’s the first thing you do in the morning? What’s the first thing you do when you sit down at your desk at work? I suspect you are probably checking your e-mail? It wouldn’t surprise me that you...
View ArticleDown the #altc road
Reading Maren Deepwell’s recent post about her #altc journey, it reminded me of the many conferences I have attended and like her the impact that they had on my life and professional practice. Going...
View ArticleLost in translation: mapping your teaching
Image by Dariusz Sankowski from Pixabay With the rapid change to emergency remote delivery because of the coronavirus pandemic seeing universities being forced to undertake an emergency response to...
View ArticleRevisiting Visitors and Residents
I was in our Bristol office for an in-person workshop. I was attending a community manager training understanding behaviours workshop in Bristol. The workshop was led by Dave White. The focus was on...
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