Damn few and they’re aw deid!
Famous deid people namechecked at #cetis09
Charles Darwin
Clarence Darrow
Marshall McLuhan (second year running!)
Les Dawson
Aldous Huxley
William Shakespeare
Joseph Schumpeter
Stieg Larsson
Famous deid programmes….
The MAC Initiative
And a couple of deid bands…
The Clash
Lindisfarne (thanks Oleg!)
Here, somewhat belatedly, is a summary of the discussions that followed the presentations at the Open Educational Resources session at CETIS 08.
Much of the discussion focused on technical issues such as infrastructure, the role of standards (or not), granularity of resources, metadata and tagging.
There appeared to be considerable support for the idea [...]
Scott Leslie’s timely and thought provoking blog post on Planning to Share versus just Sharing has already generated considerable comment and discussion on Scott’s own blog and on other blogs including by colleague Sheila’s Work Blog and Dorothea Salo’s Caveat Lector. While I wholeheartedly agree with the issues Scott raises I’m [...]
This was one vision articulated by participants during an interesting and productive meeting earlier in July that aimed to review the JISC Repositories Roadmap produced by Rachel Heery and Andy Powell in 2006. Following an introduction by Rachel Bruce and a discussion of alternative definitions of “repository” led by Rachel Heery the meeting [...]
I’m just back from a very chilled out holiday on Mull in our VW magic bus and have now started working 4 days a week for CETIS, rather than the 3 I’ve been doing since my daughter was born. Hopefully the extra day will make all the difference. I might get round to [...]
