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Hi, I'm Jez. Welcome to my blog, where I talk about learning, teaching and educational technology.August 2009
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Followup: Why use technology in teaching?
Some while ago, now, I asked for answers to the question Why use technology in teaching? I was preparing to run an afternoon workshop for some fellow students on a HE teaching course and wanted to present them with some convincing reasons to consider technology in their teaching, so I turned to twitter and the [...]
Quickie: Accepting Jack
I’ve got Radio 4 on while I do the washing up, and I’m listening to It’s My Story: Accepting Jack – Six Years On. It follows a number of families with kids who have special needs, and about 20 minutes in, there’s a wonderful moment when a sibling is describing the benefits of having a [...]
Moving to a more agile VLE
There’s been an interesting debate going on in the blogosphere over the last week about the future of the VLE. It all kicked off with Steve Wheeler’s (intentionally over-polarised) post suggesting we should stick two fingers up at the centralised VLE. Posts from James Clay, Matt Lingard, Lindsay Jordan and many others swiftly followed.
Something a little different
One of my main reasons for having this blog is so that I can experiment, throw some ideas out there and learn from what sticks and what doesn’t. So when I came across Joanna Young’s Mission Im(Possible) group writing project for this month, I thought I’d give it a go. The challenge was to produce [...]
Blog moved!
Well, I’ve been looking forward to this for a long time, but I’ve finally got the hosting sorted out and got on with it. The site is based on WordPress MU and the theme is a customised version of the Hybrid framework. All of the content from my old site is here, so update your [...]
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