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 [...]

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 [...]

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 email and [...]