Reading: Hashtags and retweets
I’m getting back into reading around things I enjoy and things that matter to me. What better place to start than with the archives of the RILT, the ALT Reasearch in Learning Technology open access Read More …
Tag: Web 2.0
‘The Survival of Higher Education’ by @timbuckteeth
“The embedding of digital technology into the fabric of everyday study has also changed the way students learn and is more in keeping with what younger people expect. Now students can assume more responsibility for their own learning and design their own study trajectories.” Read More …
The Future of Search (video) #edtech
I came across this excellent little video on The Guardian website (via Flipboard): “The future of search … made simple – an animated guide” “How will new mobile phones, technology such as Google Glass – Read More …
Designs on eLearning #DEL12: Usman Haque
The final keynote for the Designs on eLearning conference today is from Usman Haque, founder of Pachube (www.cosm.com), a real-time data infrastructure for the Internet of Things. Usman is credited as the creative architect behind Read More …
Pinterest, what’s the fuss?
In the fast-paced world of Internet start-ups and social media companies Pinterest has been around for a couple of years already. It has however gained a lot of interest in the past few months after Read More …
Making Smartphones work
I love my smartphone, my iPhone. In addition to this, I love my iPad, but I’m not as enamoured by it as I am with my phone. Since I got my iPad I have found Read More …
What is a Learning Technologist (part 5)?
Depending on where you work you might use the title Learning Technologist, Education Technologist, Instructional Designer, or something else, but essentially these roles are the same. See the ‘related posts’ section below for links to Read More …
Do students understand their ‘digital footprint’ and how it can affect their employability?
Last year I presented to a group of 1st year Business School students on the topic of their use of Social Media and Social Networking websites and how this could have implications on their employability. Read More …
QR Codes: Rise of the Code
I found a couple of really interesting infographics this week that I thought you might like. I am still very confident and enthusiastic about using QR Codes in education, in classrooms, in inductions, in libraries, Read More …
Foursquare: getting the students to go outside?
A recent study by the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth found that almost every Higher Education Institution in the US is on Facebook and 84% of them are also on Twitter, and are using them Read More …