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jiscel12 shaping up

I've worked on the JISC Innovating E-Learning Conference for several years now and we've been adjusting the format to respond to changing technologies and expectations of delegates. This year there are quite a few changes... The conference will be run in an instance of Moodle managed by the Netskills Team. It seems well suited to the task and will feel [...]

jiscel12 digilit

Students as digital partners and pioneers I wrote last week about a session at the JISC innovating eLearning online conference 2012 on open practices. This will be the seventh JISC online Innovating eLearning conference entitled Shaping the Future which takes place from 13th – 23rd November 2012. Another great session we have planned is looking at the following questions in the context [...]

End of History

My partner Tim Gray has a new photographic exhibition opening today (15th October 2012) at the Glasgow Mackintosh Church as part of the First Creative Mackintosh Festival. The Exhibition shows some of the photographs from Tim's End of History photographic project which records and documents the portraits of re-enactors involved in living history societies throughout the UK. I love this [...]

jiscel12 open session

We are now working on the seventh JISC online Innovating eLearning conference entitled Shaping the Future which takes place from 13th – 23rd November 2012. We have the usual array of excellent keynote speakers which we hope will challenge and stimulate our delegates. (with keynotes by Sue Black, James Clay and Ian Gilbert) One of the sessions that we are offering this [...]

Myscience tender

I have recently been working with Myscience - the UK’s leading organisation for supporting STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education professionals. They have just released an Invitation to Tender (ITT) for a study to review and develop a revised Online Strategy for Myscience education.  The work will be for three months between mid October 2012 and ending no later [...]

asperger syndrome – myths and reality

I don't often just feature someone else's video in my blog but I watched this today and feel it really deserves wide dissemination and appreciation. It is made by KonstantinosPapathanasiou and was self funded. It contains really good contributions from people with Asperger Syndrome and rightly has a tagline - "If you have met one person with Asperger Syndrome, you [...]

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