What works and what doesn’t?
Re-reading an old post by Melissa Milloway, about her eLearning 10 pet-peeves, reminded my of a post I started and never finished last year. Here is the post I (think) I wanted to write then, Read More …
Moving on up
A few of my recent blog posts have started with a lyric from a track I’ve listened to on the radio or on my iPod. This is no different. This morning it’s the turn of Read More …
What does education mean to you? #EducationDay
Inspired by the tweets I’ve been reading today, and from Sheila MacNeill’s post of the same title, here is something that education and learning means to me. As with everything these days, we have the Read More …
Was that meeting useful?
We all have them. Sometimes it seems our days are full of them. Mostly, they’re needed and occasionally they can even be useful. But are you getting the best out of a meeting? The worst Read More …
Long road to ruin
I’ve borrowed the title for this post from Messers Grohl, Mendel, Smear, Hawkins and Shiflett … more commonly known as Foo Fighters. Why? Well, over the 2018 festive break I’ve read more than a few Read More …
Time to Think
As part of my new role at Coventry University Online I have been exposed to the world of the ‘Thinking Environment’. This is, in essence, a series of practical, value-based exercises intended to inform and Read More …
The way I learn
When thinking about what kind of course I want to create and what kind of learning experience I want my students/learners to have, I think about the resources and technology I can use. I also Read More …
Making the most of Lynda.com
I’ve been using the institutional partnership Coventry University has with Linkedin/Lynda.com and have been taking a few short, video-heavy courses to further my understanding in a few area. In light of this I took the Read More …
Conversations
At the moment I’m celebrating some, online, 10th anniversaries – in October 2008 I started blogging, I joined LinkedIn in November 2008 and I joined Twitter in January 2009. These are quite special, I wasn’t aware Read More …
Podcast: What’s in your #EdTech bag (#EdTechRations)
Nearly two years ago I was invited to appear on Vicki Davis’ Every Classroom Matters podcast to talk about self-publishing books and to give advice to teachers and educators on what to do and how Read More …