Oct

27

Does it matter if students stop using courseware when the course ends? Digilit musings

October 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment

However, a bigger concern is for those services where I was able to track usage was that after the course ended, so did student use.

via scienceoftheinvisible.blogspot.com
This experience mirrors ours, though I only have anecdote to support it. Courses where PebblePad is used do not seem to engender an extended adoption of the platform for ongoing [...]

Oct

22

If the Twitterverse isn’t fed from outside, it is just an echo chamber #pcthe

October 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment

The question of whether you can rely on Twitter to filter your reading is problematic. Yes following 8,000 people (or however many) will probably serve to satisfy most information needs. I am sure that by some number (10? 100? 1000?) a Twitter follower will be deep into a long tail of duplication. The other 40,000,000 [...]

Oct

19

US Government Cloud Computing strategy; where is the UK in this respect? #ssbr

October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment

The Federal Government will transform its Information Technology Infrastructure by virtualizing data centers, consolidating data centers and operations, and ultimately adopting a cloud-computing business model.
via govcloud.ulitzer.com
This article reports a Booz Allen Hamilton report on the cost model being used to drive US Govt data policies towards the adoption of “cloud computing” platforms. They offer three [...]

Oct

15

Wi-Fi Direct: a step towards the mesh? via Slashdot

October 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Wi-Fi Direct will connect at existing Wi-Fi speeds– up to 250 mbps. Wi-Fi Direct devices will also be able to broadcast their availability and seek out other Wi-Fi Direct devices.
via mobile.slashdot.org
Some of you might have heard me witter on about widely distributed databases (e.g. bit torrent) and mesh networks (e.g. OLPC). I made a few [...]

Oct

15

Fascinating bi-modality in charts of social media use by young Europeans via @GrahamAttwell

October 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment

European survey data on how young people are using social media.
via pontydysgu.org
Either they use it or they don’t. Not much middle ground. 25% use the Internet more than 20 hours a week; 30% less than 5 hours. Well, it is more complex than that, of course, but even stronger bimodality is showm with IM. Not [...]

Oct

14

Why blog? via @AJCann - useful for anyone introducing blogging into their teaching #pcthe

October 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment

My blog:

is a place where I think, plan and reflect
forces me to read in order to gather the input I need for my output
is a place where I play with technology and ideas
often surprises me
is a place where I collaborate
is currently the most satisfying part of my job
is slightly dangerous
is compulsive

via microbiologybytes.com
This page is a [...]

Oct

11

Enterprise (and institutions?) lag in Social Web Savviness: implications for #ssbr

October 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Traditional media campaigns have a beginning and end. Social technology fuels conversation. One, five, ten or ten thousand people could all be stirring up and participating in conversations using social media tools. The conversation has a time dimension that just runs on and on. … this is why social tools adopt a river-of-news style. With [...]

Oct

10

Android, iPhone, Windoze Mobile all boil down to price comparison shopping?

October 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment

ShopSavvy uses a phone’s camera to scan an item’s bar code and look up prices for it online and at nearby stores.
via washingtonpost.com
Now that is the kind of mobile, location aware service that might be useful; but in the end I guess the whole world will be shopping for everything at Confused.com: the [...]

Oct

7

US military cloud computing platform (via RWW)

October 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Just because computing is done in the cloud, that doesn’t mean it has to be insecure and subject to outages. Or so says the U.S. Defense Department who just put into operation their cloud computing services for military personnel.
via readwriteweb.com
Admittedly the missions are different, but higher education really should be looking harder at “the cloud”.

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Oct

6

Digital literacies at Brookes #pcthe

October 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment

More digital literacies at Brookes
One of the key messages arising from national research is that although technology is pervasive in many learners’ lives, learners entering higher eduation lack basic information literacies skills and have little idea of how they can use technology to support their study (see for example JISC Google Generation, Great Expectations and [...]

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