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 [...]

Aug

21

how HESA normalises black, mixed and other ethnic group graduates to reduce their impact by a quarter! http://bit.ly/gsVwv

August 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Or, at least that is one possible reading of this following example from HESA’s Guidelines for the use of the DLHE Longitudinal Survey Dataset.
To illustrate how this is done:Black, mixed and other ethnic group graduates accounted for 21.9% of the selected Sample A.
From the initial census it is known that these graduates represent just 4.9% [...]

Aug

15

Josie Fraser (@josiefraser) on 3 ways to characterise online identity

August 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment

There are three main ways we can characterise most peoples online internet and mobile activity and presence. Let me state up front that these distinctions are purposely blunt, but do act as effective and critical distinctions, especially when talking to people about how and why they can manage their online identities.
via fraser.typepad.com
Josie Fraser characterises these [...]

Mar

21

passaggiato continuo: work life balance

March 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment

I was talking with our Head of Elearning at Brookes about why I find Twitter a-good-thing. He worked for many years in Italy. I described Twitter as the passaggiato of the Internet. I have also heard it described as the virtual office corridor or the space around the water cooler. But, this led me to [...]

Jan

9

A digital identity question for parents

January 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment

An interesting question is raised by a Design Pattern problem, Others First, identified by Yishay Mor in the Pattern Language Network wiki:
Parents who create an online identity for themselves that includes any images of and text about their children inevitably create an online identity for those children. The children have no control over how they [...]

Dec

30

Personal learning environments (PLEs), please

December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment

The term PLE is going to come into its own in 2009, because of the prominence of the digital literacy/academic literacy and lifelong learning debates. There has been much discussion of PLEs over the past four or five years (yes, that long). I was led to this reflection by Graham Attwell’s post, How my Personal [...]