GDPR and your blog
On May 25th, a new set of rules and regulations comes into law for UK and EU online data. This is GDPR … the General Data Protection Regulation. This isn’t going to be an all-out Read More …
Tag: WordPress
Is LinkedIn still relevant?
I have a LinkedIn account and profile – here it is: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/davidmhopkins I think it’s OK – nothing special, nothing outstanding. I’ve put a little effort into making it what it is, making sure it’s up Read More …
Don’t give it to me unless I can customise it
My first car was a 1993 Rover Mini Cooper 1.3i, in British Racing Green (obviously). I bought it second hand in ’97 from John Cooper Garages (JCG) in West Sussex, and the legendary John Cooper himself Read More …
‘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 …
Writing an eBook: Lessons learned on how, where, and why
Those of you know me will know I published two eBooks earlier this year. This post will deal a little with the ‘how’ and ‘why’ I did it, but also I hope it’ll help you Read More …
Alternative Word Cloud Generator: Tagul
I’ve used Wordle and Tagxedo in the past to generate a word cloud of text for different projects, but I recently found this new one that produces an interactive word cloud – Tagul. Using either Read More …
Reflection on the ‘eLearning and Digital Cultures’ MOOC, Wk.1 #edcmooc
Here are some notes, links, conversations, thoughts, and reflections on the first week of the University of Edinburgh / Cousera ‘eLearning and Digital Cultures’ MOOC. This reflection will form part of the work required by Read More …
Nomination(s) for the 2012 Edublog Awards #eddies12
November can only mean one thing … EduBlog Awards (and you thought I was going to say “nearly Christmas”, right?). Nominations are open for the 2012 Edublog Awards, and here are mine: Best Individual Blog: Read More …
WordPress as a VLE or CMS?
My understanding of WordPress is that it is a blogging tool, but I have also used it to run corporate, commercial, charity, and special interest websites. It also runs some extremely powerful (and large) websites Read More …
Measuring user engagement by leveraging the power of ‘copy-and-paste’
A year or so ago I wrote about the system Tynt “What’s being copied from your website?” and I thought it warranted an update, seeing as the service is very different to what it was back Read More …