Different is Memorable

21 September 2009

Whether for holidays or business, flying is one of those things that has become so common that we rarely give it any thought. In particular, most people give the appearance of ignoring the pre flight safety briefing. So if you want people to pay attention and learn, it makes sense that you should do something [...]

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Tweet Psych

15 June 2009

Just ran myself through Tweet Psych. Not entirely sure what this says about me, but here are the results; Cognitive Content Present tense Positive emotions Tentative Future tense Upward motion Insight Senses Past tense Cognitive processes Space Occupation & work Motion Primordial, Conceptual and Emotional Content Abstract thought Social behavior Constructive behaviors Concreteness Glory Restraint [...]

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9 Free Tools That Help Mac Users Build Better E-Learning

5 May 2009

Over on the Rapid E-Learning Blog, Tom Kuhlman has come up with a list of his 9 Free Tools That Help Me Build Better E-Learning. Bearing in mind that Articulate is a Windows based tool, it’s not surprising that the tool listed are for that platform. So here is my list of 9 equivalent tools [...]

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Open Source LMS – 10 Alternatives to Moodle

8 April 2009

Since the economic downturn began I’ve noticed much more interest in open source Learning Management Systems (LMS), and it’s no surprise that when people ask what the options are, the answer is usually Moodle. Now, there’s nothing wrong with Moodle, but it certainly isn’t the only open source LMS out there. Because there is no [...]

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Facebook and democracy

26 February 2009

It’s a sign of  how quickly things move in the field of social media, that I was half way though composing a post about content licensing and the recent furore over Facebook’s changes to their terms of service, when what should pop into my feed reader, but another bombshell from Mark Zuckerberg and co. Only [...]

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Don’t blame PowerPoint

16 February 2009

Jay Cross has written a post called PowerPoint is tyranny, about whether offsite conferences need to change. I’ve not seen Jay’s presentation, but I don’t think we can lay the blame at PowerPoint’s door. Like everything else in this rapidly changing world, conference organisers need to demonstrate value. It will no longer be acceptable to [...]

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Learning Technologies – A week later

3 February 2009

It seems impossible that seven days have gone by since I was getting packed for Learning Technologies. It’s been something of a whirlwind. As always, I came away exhausted and with a head full of ideas. It was great to catch up with people I hadn’t seen for a while, and to meet a whole [...]

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Twitter and RSS

27 January 2009

Twitter has had a great deal of media coverage this month, from worldwide news stories like the Hudson River crash and Obama’s inauguration through to its discussion by Stephen Fry and Jonathan Ross (@stephenfry and @wossy respectively) on the latter’s Friday night talk show. I wanted to share a handy way of using RSS feeds [...]

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Nothing Important to Communicate?

26 January 2009

Setting up this blog is something that has been on my mind for close to a year. That’s an embarrasing confession for someone who spends a great deal of time telling people that starting a blog is easy. There are several reasons that it’s taken so long to go from idea to reality, not the [...]

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