On Monday 25th June I went to an ALT workshop on evaluating projects.I chose to concentrate on the evaluation of a pilot of the e-portfolio software PebblePad. It looks like we will pilot with staff and a few students in the Autumn Semester 2007 and then.

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Last Thursday I went to the Blended Learning Conference in Hatfield where I gave a presentation on using blogs for learning.Here is the abstract of the talk, if you want more information please contact me by commenting on this post.The use of social...
Topics: Conference

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At a conference today about e-learning [details here in Rod’s post] I found some interesting explanations, in video form, for some web 2.0 technologies:Wikis in plain english which explains the basic concept of using a wiki;RSS in plain english...
Topics: About this blog

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Finally found time to join the conference, even then only the recording. Started with Diana Oblinger’s talk which so far is re-iterating things we all know already but done in a very engaging way. At first there does not seem to be a focus on...
Topics: OCC2007

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I have spent some time over the last two weeks trying to get a discussion group going using WebCT about e-learning to give participants:some experience of things from the student side;an insight into some of the issues about e-learning;an opportunity to..

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