I may be a swimming coach (amongst several things), but my head coach told me...
English: Jakob Nielsen, web usability consultant. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Think less and get the athletes to do more. Keep it simple. If there is any context however where thinking is the currency,...
View ArticleThe e-learning professional – H800 (Masters in Open and Distance Education)
The podcast H808 e-learning SMEs. (Makes them sound like a prog rock band of the 1960s. Perhaps they were?) [V. Long version here. 4,000 words +. 1,000 or under in H808 Tutor Forum. Edited versions in...
View ArticleFrank Cottrell-Boyce reflected on what an advantage he gopt doing year 6 over...
Frank Cottrell-Boyce reflected on what an advantage he got doing Year 6 over in primary school because he was too young for Secondary School. It is extraordinary how empowering it is to feel on top of...
View ArticlePodcasting – flick record any old time and see what you get?
It seems counter-intuitive to drive 160 miles to record a Podcast but I will reflect in due course on why this was better than recording a Skype conversation. We recorded onto a Netbook through the mic...
View ArticleGetting away from it … not quite
From E-LEARNING A journey across the country to visit family. I find my 85 year old father-in-law translating some Polish to complete a voice over for YouTube clip the Warsaw uprising. This his son...
View ArticlePutting Personal Development Planning (pdp) at the centre of things
I had an interview in London that by fortuitous timing ties directly into the H808 ECA (end of course assessment) that I have to complete and upload in the next 13 hours. What is more, every part of...
View ArticleSerendipty, Social Media and the Zapruder effect
The Hub and Mulberry Suite, Open University Campus An extraordinary end to an extraordinary week capped by what might have been lunch alone, but at The Hub the chances of a meeting with like minds is...
View ArticleAugmented mobile learning
Imagine a room in which students pick an item from a museum then do this with it on their screens. You have their attention. How do they then take it and create a string of memories that take them...
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