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Connections

Rather shockingly I have not been to work since the end of July.  A holiday, one scheduled operation then, during recovery, a perforated appendix and a second operation.  In total 6 days in hospital, 10 staples and the same number of … Continue reading

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Future Gazing

Lots of very interesting reading this week including “Horizon Report 2011″, “Fostering Learning in a Networked World (cyberlearning)” and Becta’s “Harnessing Technology: Next Generation Learning.”  Having read these I was intrugued to see what UCISA responders saw as priorities. UCISA: … Continue reading

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Assessment: sitting at the feet of students

A good trip this week to Carlisle for Assessment in Higher Education Conference 2011  (I was “helping” with a presentation). I enjoyed all the presentations and identified the buzz phrases as:  “exemplars”, “feed-forward” and “assessment for learning”. One of the … Continue reading

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More Blurring: AT, ET, Smart T and Mobile T

Last Thursday brought a trip to UWE for an assistive technology get together with colleagues from other HEs in England. As, often sole practitioners, its valuable to meet, talk and ruminate on where things are heading. Polling folk beforehand we chose to focus … Continue reading

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Redefining normal

http://www.agent4change.net/events/awards/987.html I have a minor association with the stars of this week’s Northern Grid awards – Woodlawn school (were I am a one of the school governors). Wednesday saw a day of interviews for the headship, so between observing assemblies, … Continue reading

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Unstuck in a land of plenty

I have e-constipation.  More blog posts, emails and tweets than I can handle in the spare moments that I have to browse them.  There’s a real danger of spending more time consuming and filtering information than there is to actually … Continue reading

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Social coaching II

One of my colleagues was looking over my shoulder as I struggled to work out a software problem.  “do you always bring up task manager like that?” He asked.  I was then astounded to find out that there was a … Continue reading

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Holes in the wall and granny clouds

Got talking about this today while chatting about training teachers in Africa and just had to Google even though I should be thinking about student opinon surveys. A bit of the talk relates to Tamil speaking children learning how to explore … Continue reading

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Brand Loyalties

When at the supermarket I try really hard no to spend 4 minutes deciding which washing powder to buy. Without brand loyalty I invariably feel the need to compare prices, volumes and costs per wash and it’s stressful! Its much … Continue reading

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Blog-a-log

Much discussion this week about blogging.  One of the things that surprises me is the diversity of opinion on the value of blogs.  My starting point was “dead useful”  I am really aware that keeping up to date and checking … Continue reading

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