mooc webinar
On Wednesday 11th July 2012 at 12noon I will be contributing to a JISC webinar What is a mooc along with David Kernohan, Martin Weller, Dave White and Jonathan Worth. My brief is to talk a little about the learner perspective based on my own experiences with a few MOOCs (massive open online course). I though it might be useful [...]
timelines
I have recently completed a series of articles for the JISC CETIS other voices blog which offered a reflective account of three areas of work - Learning Environments, Exchanging Course Information (XCRI) and Open Educational Resources (OER). Developments in each area have been significant for the UK Higher and Further education sector and after speaking to CETIS staff (and after [...]
get the poetry bug
One of my fellow DS106 ers Ben Rimes, has set up a fantastic blog called poetry for people and I am totally hooked. It aims to be a daily poetry-writing prompt and every day an image is posted to inspire your words. I have submitted some images and am going to write at least one poem a day. When you [...]
letter to paypal
Despite being told by paypal that my case is closed 4 days before the deadline and being unable to upload any more documents, I received two more emails today asking me to upload documents to support my case. These were in response to an email I forwarded from the Dumfries and Galloway police expressing their concerns that their report was [...]
paypal epic fail
I am so uspet and weary today after nearly two months of doing everything I can to provide evidence to paypal about the ebay scam I described in detail in my last post. I found out today that they have dropped my claim to get back the £907.50 that I lost to an ebay scammer. This is what they said: [...]
A Christmas tale
It all began on a dark November evening, when out of nowhere a storm brought the town to a standstill. A bolt of lightening hit Whithorn in the middle of the night and killed 8 cows, several computers, internet hubs and phone lines. No humans were killed as far as we know... The motherboard on my son's computer died that [...]
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