Category Archives: Blogging

From the web: tools for project management and how to contract developers

Over on the IE blog Andy McGregor has a useful annotated list of some of the online tools that he has used to help with programme management.
Many could be just as useful projects - distributed or not.
http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/2008/11/06/web-tools-for-programme-management/
On a related note David Flanders has a useful and extensive reflection and how to guide on contracting [...]

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Journals and the right choice of words

Erik Duval has just blogged about the first issue of IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies.
His blog post is available at http://erikduval.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/ieee-transactions-on-learning-technologies/
I’m glad to see the launch of a new journal in the field of learning technology and very glad to see that the content is going to be Open Access after a 12 month embargo [...]

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Transistions

Some of you may be aware that I’ve been working halftime for CETIS and halftime for the CDLR (Centre for Digital Library Research). From today I’m now working full time for CETIS.
I started working for CDLR during my studies at Strathclyde, and over the past four years have had the chance to work on a [...]

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Give me all your bookmarks…

or Adventures with Firefox 3, Del.icio.us toolbars, and Wordle
I’ve been using del.icio.us for a while for work and find it a really good way to keep track of stuff. Although to be honest I find it most useful as an ability to keep track of other people’s stuff. I spend a few minutes each morning [...]

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Blogging revisited

Why do people blog? (revisited)
It’s something I thought about a little at the start of this blog and something I return to briefly now. In part because I’m thinking about of some of the triggers for blog posts.
I’m not the most prolific blogger - in part because I find that there are certain types of [...]

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LibraryThing

A quick note that some of you may have noticed I’ve stuck a link to library thing on my blogroll (I’ll try to sort out how the sidebar is arranged eventually). This is the contents of my office bookshelf. a few non-work-related things may creep in (if I leave my Neal Stephenson in the [...]

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Blogging part 2

Just a quick note to say that it seems the world is awash with people in e-learning who are talking about the pros and cons of blogging. Elearningtech produced a summary of a recent debate on the learning circuits blog about Should All Learning Professionals be Blogging?

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Hello world! - what is a work blog?

A first post; Welcome to my blog.
I’ve avoided blogging so far in life, but it now seems to be part of my job.
I’m not sure if I’m relieved or confused by this. I’m perhaps relieved as it gives me an excuse to write reflectively without having to justify why I should inflict my musings on [...]

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