Embedding LAMS sequences

September 29, 2011
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This is just a quick test to illustrate the new embed feature of LAMS sequences. You can now get embed code for sequences from the LAMS Community site. You should be able to preview this sequecce, and edit it using LessonLAMS if you have an account. A great step forward from the LAMS [...]

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Social Media and Academia

September 23, 2011
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Glasgow is one of the participating cities in the global Social Media Week. I was pleased to be able to attend the Social Media and Academia workshop at Glasgow University earlier this week; organised by Edinburgh Beltane, Beacon for Public Engagement and EDINA.
The event generated a really interesting discussion around use of social media [...]

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How would you build a widget authoring tool?

September 15, 2011

Yesterday along with about 20 others I attended a Design Event organised by the Widg@t project, which is being funded through the current round of JISC Learning Teaching Innovation Grants (LTIG).
The aim of the day was to help the team "define the design specification for the WIDGaT toolkit, in particular the Design Decision Maker and [...]

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Design bash 11 pre-event ponderings and questions

September 8, 2011
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In preparation for the this year's Design Bash, I've been thinking about some of the "big" questions around learning design and what we actually want to achieve on the day.
When we first ran a design bash, 4 years ago as part of the JISC Design for Learning Programme we outlined three areas of activity /interoperability [...]

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Summer round up from the institutional DVLE projects

September 1, 2011
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Summer generally provides a bit of time for reflection and gathering of thoughts. It also marks the start of the final phase of the current JISC Distributed Virtual Learning Environments (DVLE) programme. For the five institutionally based projects, this summer has provided a short break before some major implementations and evaluations get underway [...]

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