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Hi, I'm Jez. Welcome to my blog, where I talk about learning, teaching and educational technology.April 2009
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Weekly links: blogging, books and business
Here are a few things that have caught my eye this week and I thought might interest you as well. open…: 10 Things to Build a Blog Readership — I’ll certainly be following these tips. I feel that particularly the first is relevant to practically anything you do. On active reading (aka highlighting books religiously) [...]
Quickie: new Twitter client, Tweetie, released for Mac
I’ve been playing with Twitter for a couple of months now, and I have to say, I rather like it. I’ve graduated from interacting with it purely through the Twitter site, and tend to use a client for most of my tweeting. On my iPod touch, I’ve been using a client by the name of [...]
Weekly links: Twitter bits
I often come across links that I find useful or enjoyable and that I’d like to share, but that I haven’t got time to write a full blog post about. I’ve decided, therefore, to try wrapping a few of my favourites up into a weekly(ish) digest which I’ll post here. This week, a selection of [...]
Does Wikipedia have a place in education?
Like it or loath it, people use Wikipedia. Some use it as a quick reference for unimportant matters, or as a jumping-off point for more detailed research. Some use it, inappropriately, as a source in its own right: English Heritage was recently criticised by Building Design magazine for citing a Wikipedia article as evidence in a [...]
Teaching with social media: engaging the audience
Do you like having an audience? I know I do: that’s at least part of the reason I’m writing this blog post. The social web has greatly lowered the barrier to entry for those of us who want an online presence, and given us the greatest possible chance of reaching an appreciative audience through, for [...]
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