See also: Social Media Strike! — FAQ about the project to decentralize social media — Resources Humanity has been contemptuously used by vast digital empires. Thus it is now necessary to replace these empires with decentralized networks of independent individuals, as in the first decades of the Internet. As our participation has been voluntary, no one doubts our right to take this step. But if we are to persuade as many people as possible to join together and make reformed networks possible, we should declare our reasons for wanting to replace the old.

Microsoft has recently released the iOS version of its new Whiteboard app and I recorded this quick video to give my first impressions. There is certainly already sufficient functionality here for me to want to use it in my classes. https://youtu.be/23XokK95DAo The features that I like are: Infinite size canvas – like in OneNote. Ruler for drawing straight lines at various angles. Ink to shape. Share to OneNote (as an image).

In honour of the silver jubilee of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT), ALT Conference 2018 Co-Chair Martin Weller has been compiling a personal history of the development of Educational Technology (Ed Tech) covering the years 1993 to the present. The final episode, 2018 Critical Ed Tech was published yesterday. Ranging from AI, through the web, eLearning, MOOCs, back to AI and on to blockchain – like Lasers in the 60s, surely a technology looking for an application – it’s an entertaining look at all the disrupting technologies that somehow failed to disrupt education.

This just seen on Twitter. A great resource from @teachermarija on using OneNote and OneNote Class Notebook in the classroom distributed as a OneNote notebook. https://twitter.com/mtholfsen/status/1029902658134454272

Last month I started this sequence of posts on using OneNote Class Notebook as a VLE by posting a simple 3-question survey using Microsoft forms. There have been four submissions (one was mine), so please have a go if you want to improve these results. Here are the results. 1. Do you use a VLE? 100% of those who took the survey said yes! 2. What kinds of content do you deliver through your VLE?

At last year’s SALT conference (#SUSALT17), I ran a session on using the OneNote Class Notebook (ONCN) with the same title as this post. The title, of course, was meant to be provocative, but having used the OneNote Class Notebook for three years now, I believe that it has great potential, is getting a lot of love from Microsoft, and deserves to be more widely known. In this series of posts, I will attempt to open up my 2017 talk to a wider audience and bring in a discussion of Teams for Education, demonstrate the new ONCN plugin for Blackboard, and showcase my own use of ONCN in teaching.

It’s graduation next week, the official end of the University year and the start of the summer battery recharge. Inspired by a comment from my friend and colleague Chris Hall made at yesterday’s #SUSALT18 Conference, I thought that it was time to reactivate my blog with a few thoughts on what I want to achieve over the summer. So here, in no particular order, are the things on my todo list.

Cross-posted from the LTEC Blog. For those who couldn’t make the 10th SALT conference held at the Bay Campus, here is a Wakelet I made of the tweets from the event. If you want to learn more about Wakelets and how to make them, the new way to curate social media posts and create stories using @wakelet by Sue Beckingham (@suebecks) is an excellent introduction. Comments: Diwrnod 4 #SU5DoT: Hashnodau – su5dot - May 4, 2019

So the January 2018 run of Bring Your Own Device for Learning (BYOD4L) is over! Thanks to the team, Sheila McNeil, Alex Spiers, Neil Withnell, Debbie Baff, and Suzanne Faulkner for their expert guidance! I didn’t do the tasks, but I did do a fair amount of connecting, communicating and curating this time. My TiddlyWiki record of #BYOD4L 2018 is byod4l.cpjobling.net. It’s one HTML page (index.html) which you can copy by pressing the save button.

I created this page as a proof of concept using CoDog’s link extraction tool on the story that was curated by Sheila McNeil. Observations, long tweetchats like this should be edited in the Text view in WordPress. Rendering the tweets in the Visual HTML editor view is not something that the WordPress can cope with, but is probably necessary if you want to add commentary to a chat rather than a straight record.

It’s time for Bring Your Own Device for Learning 2018 (my 6th) and this year there are 5 additional C’s (Confidence, Capability, Copyright, Community and Celebrating) to add to the usual menu of Connecting, Communicating, Curating, Collaborating, and Creating. I’m probably not going to have the freedom that I had last year to contribute as much as I would like, but I will be using a new curation tool – TiddlyWiki – and its mobile editing app Quine.

[Cross posted from my Work Blog.] https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/949747428848295936 [caption id="" align=“alignleft” width=“439”] Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet, with Yorick’s skull (photographer: James Lafayette, c. 1885–1900). Image from Wikimedia Commons as published in Hamlet (Wikipedia).[/caption] I’ve had a work blog, courtesy of my employer Swansea University, for a number of years, but rarely use it. Instead, I tend to post most often in this personal blog. So, at the start of this new year, a time for reflection and resolutions, I find myself asking myself should I keep this blog and start using it more systematically or should I abandon it?