Tales from the chalk face

It’s summer so there must be time to blog! Right? Ignoring the fact that I failed to follow through on my last promise to do better, I’ve decided that after surviving another year of Interesting Times (See Alleged Mandarin Curse) there are a few “tales from the chalkface” that I could usefully recount. So watch this space! I’ll also try to reboot by 366 Crispy Things blog to provide a daily serving of goodness....

July 18, 2013 · 1 min

What no star?

I just noticed (because I haven’t used it seriously for a while) that Google Reader has gotten rid of the “star” which I used to use to share articles that I had read with my FriendFeed and my own Crispy Feeds feed. It’s been replaced by G+ and Share with Google+ buttons. I suppose it makes sense from Google’s point of view that the default way to share from its feed reader should be through it’s own social network, and to be fair, other sharing options are still available from Google Reader via the Send to option....

December 6, 2012 · 1 min

Need to blog again!

With my daughter now staring her own blog, I feel guilty that my blog has been silent for so long. “I’ve been busy” is some kind of excuse, I suppose, but I know that I’ll be even busier next year. Perhaps I need some inspiration. Anyone got any ideas for me?

December 6, 2012 · 1 min

BlendKIt2012

I’m registered to participate in BlendKit2012, the open, online course on blended learning. I thought you might be interested in joining me. If you haven’t heard about it already, it’s a five week opportunity to get ideas and develop materials for blended learning courses. There is no registration fee, and you can set your own goals for participation based on your existing time commitments. For more information or to register, please visit: http://bit....

September 6, 2012 · 1 min

Moving to Moodle

A series of talking heads discuss the move of the Bloomsbury Learning Environment to Moodle 2 from Blackboard 8. Videos provided on the ULCC Events Channel. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=videoseries?list=PL797550437607675C&hl=en_US]

June 8, 2012 · 1 min