Sunset at Glastonbury

Sunset at Glastonbury, a photo by Chris P Jobling on Flickr. At Glastonbury 2011 we had rain and mud, then the sun came out on Saturday afternoon, and Elbow was singing “On a Day Like Today” on the Pyramid Stage as the sun went down. Glorious! More pictures on Flickr.

June 28, 2011 · 1 min

Testing markdown

Just installed extended php-markdown plugin and this post is written in markdown as a test. Here’s some emphasisstrong emphasis and code. A bulleted list another item A numbered list another item The code: Just installed extended [php-markdown](http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/) plugin and this post is written in markdown as a test. Here's some *emphasis* **strong emphasis** and `code`. * A bulleted list * another item 1. A numbered list 2. another item I’ve turned off the visual editor but WordPress still shows the simple HTML icons....

June 14, 2011 · 1 min

My Top 10 Tools of 2010-11

Two heads are better than one. Helen Davies, one of our Learning Support Team, has put out a call for the annual top 10 tools at Swansea University. A now annual survey that was inspired by Jane Hart’s long-running survey. As I’ve just come out of a busy teaching term, my list reflects the tools that have dominated my course preparation, delivery and assessment. My browser (Firefox or Chome used about equally!...

June 9, 2011 · 2 min

New developments

I’ve just launched a new blog called Crispy Development in which I hope to document my various open-source projects that are hosted on GitHub. This is likely to be on the technical side, and is mostly to help me plan, document and remember stuff. But it may be of interest to someone.

March 31, 2011 · 1 min

You've got an "ology"?

Zaid Ali Alsagoff shared his discovery of schoology.com at last week’s Wednesday presentation on #CCK11 so I’ve posted the link in a blog post “You’ve got an “Ology”? on the Swansea Learning Lab community blog. We also discussed lecture capture at a pan-Wales meeting today, and I included a postscript about the CCK11 model of meeting capture with Elluminate. Brits of a certain age, will need no explanation for the title of this post....

March 21, 2011 · 1 min