Downes & Wiley discuss OER
Are you watching Stephen and David discussing open educational resources? It’s fascinating so far, with their different styles, but I’m not sure I’m hearing much to help move us forward on open...
View ArticleDownes & Wiley discuss OER
Are you watching Stephen and David discussing open educational resources? It’s fascinating so far, with their different styles, but I’m not sure I’m hearing much to help move us forward on open...
View ArticleDownes & Wiley discuss OER
Are you watching Stephen and David discussing open educational resources? It’s fascinating so far, with their different styles, but I’m not sure I’m hearing much to help move us forward on open...
View ArticleDownes & Wiley discuss OER
Are you watching Stephen and David discussing open educational resources? It’s fascinating so far, with their different styles, but I’m not sure I’m hearing much to help move us forward on open...
View Article3D scans with Trimensional app
Fun with the Trimensional app for iPhone4. This first version doesn’t allow you to export animated scans, so I manually recreated this and assembled the image sequence as an animated GIF. See original...
View ArticleSplendid new anatomy teaching app
We at Warwick Medical School are proud of the new anatomy teaching iPhone app from Professor Peter Abrahams. Peter has done a terrific job with his small development team to produce this new app. It...
View ArticleWeblog now iPad friendly
Thanks to the new Onswipe WordPress plugin this weblog is even more iPad friendly. Onswipe detects when a site is being viewed by an iPad and substitutes a nice looking swipe-enabled theme. Read the...
View ArticleKliban Cartoon – I’m the king and you have to do what I command
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View ArticleSemantic schmantic
Like many, I’ve been watching the development of the semantic web with interest but also with a degree of scepticism. Interest, because it just makes sense that expressing in a machine-readable way...
View ArticleTrying Pixel Pumper
Interesting new app and alternative to MarsEdit. Curious name. See original here: Trying Pixel Pumper a2a_linkname="Trying Pixel...
View ArticleKliban Cartoon – I’m the king and you have to do what I command
“I’m the king and you have to do what I command or else I can’t be king any more!” This is perhaps one of my favourite Kliban cartoons. Read the original post: Kliban Cartoon – I’m the king and you...
View ArticleBulletproof blog
As a result of all this unwanted excitement I’ve made a few changes. Most importantly I’ve changed my domain host. I’m now with Bluehost, one of the few hosts recommended by WordPress themselves. I...
View ArticleGoodbye Google Reader hello Feedly
Feedly logo The retirement of Google Reader has forced me like many others to look for an alternative service to manage my RSS subscriptions. I’ve tried a number of services and apps and have decided...
View ArticleWhere will the money for MOOCs come from?
The thing that caught my eye about this report in the Chronicle of Bill Gates’ keynote at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit was: “In the Q&A, Mr. Gates predicted that MOOCs would not be...
View ArticleHappy New Year! (again)
A custom of this now nearly dormant weblog is a post at new year. The first such post that I could find was for 2002. Back then I was using Radio UserLand as my blogging platform. WordPress had yet to...
View ArticleProliferation of researcher profiles
As a research active academic I publish papers and engage in other research activities that hopefully have some impact. Just what that impact is and how to measure it will be the subject of a later...
View ArticleHappy birthday Opportunity
Opportunity rover selfie. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell Univ./Arizona State Univ. Ten years ago today I wrote a short blog piece to note the landing of the NASA Opportunity rover on the...
View ArticleConference Twitter overwhelm, is it just me?
Social Media Information Overload by Mark Smiciklas, on Flickr I was at a conference recently that was actively promoting the use of social media including Twitter. Most conferences do these days it...
View ArticleInstitutional VLEs, why bother?
As part of a current debate on the role of the LMS and the VLE in an agenda of openness, Amber suggests that VLEs can be many things but they are not fundamentally evil: “VLEs can be used as a platform...
View ArticleReflections on the 1:AM altmetrics conference
I recently attended 1:AM, the first altmetrics conference, and I am still considering what I learnt from the various perspectives presented by publishers, funders, policy makers, librarians, and...
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