I am daily impressed at what an excellent reference manager Zotero is

Zotero (http://www.zotero.org/) deserves a much longer pean than I am going to give it here. A web-native application, it knocks the spots off EndNote. It is developed by researchers for researchers at the Center for History and New Media (http://chnm.gmu.edu/) at George Mason University and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Institute of … Continue reading I am daily impressed at what an excellent reference manager Zotero is

Looking forward to a week of study leave

Next week I am on leave to try to crack my analytical framework and to structure what ever it is I may have found. Last week was discouraging. It has been really hard doing this part-time. Picking it up and putting it down: three steps forward two steps back. I have to reinvent myself as … Continue reading Looking forward to a week of study leave

Flourish: PebblePad Technology for professional development #HEAtpd

Sarah Chesney discusses the aims, ethos, key activities and the PS portfolio developed under the Flourish project. Evaluating the use of an eportfolio for CPD for admin and academic staff. Used to ease the admin burden and provide personal learning system (PLE?), within which is an eportfolio. Academic model practice before students. Over reliance on … Continue reading Flourish: PebblePad Technology for professional development #HEAtpd

Developing the SSBR Platform

It has been a fraught three days working on the new JISC-ssbr platform. After a long time of indecision we are pushed to cement something in place and live with it. I am writing this as much to check that feeds into the various blog components work.

@heloukee – Sparks off of the conversation prism to social entrepreneurship

The links through the conversation prism (http://bit.ly/rg26k) to its creator JESS3 (http://jess3.com/) and one of the sites they did (http://www.busboysandpoets.com/) led to "B Corporations" (http://www.bcorporation.net/). This appears to be a nascent US social entrepreneurship standards setting and certifying initiative. The B-rating system attempts to go further than "triple bottom line" accounting (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_bottom_line) and corporate social … Continue reading @heloukee – Sparks off of the conversation prism to social entrepreneurship

Coruisk thru horizontal sleet

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Pinnacle ridge

Posted via email from George's posterous

Horizon 5-year meta trends in emerging technologies for learning #shock09

Seven metatrends in emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression within learning-focused organizations include: the evolving approaches to communication between humans and machines the collective sharing and generation of knowledge computing in three dimensions connecting people via the network; games as pedagogical platforms the shifting of content production … Continue reading Horizon 5-year meta trends in emerging technologies for learning #shock09

4 dimensions of digital literacy #shock09

I was discussing an unpublished draft of a working paper on digital literacy at Oxford Brookes. It struck me that a communication theory model might be useful when looking at the tools we might use. The four dimensions I recognised in the paper were: n-0: solitary reflection 1-n: broadcasting ones self: blogging, writing for publication … Continue reading 4 dimensions of digital literacy #shock09

tonight we suspended the Emerge Elgg service

After a long deliberation we decided that the Emerge Elgg site should not continue to operate in its current form. From midnight 31 March/1 April 2009 we discontinued log-in to the Emerge Elgg site and suspended all feeds into the site. I would like to thank all who have been instrumental in creating a vision … Continue reading tonight we suspended the Emerge Elgg service