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Hi, I'm Jez. Welcome to my blog, where I talk about learning, teaching and educational technology.October 2009
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Annotating the web: Diigo vs. Google Sidewiki
For a long time, I’ve been the sort of person who tends to read and absorb information, without really wanting or needing to scribble notes down. This is probably because my background has been maths and computing, and the elegance of mathematics as a language is in its ability to express big ideas and small [...]
Ask the readers: do you keep a portfolio?
One of my favourite posts so far has been my first Ask the Readers post, so I’ve decided it’s time to continue the series with another request for ideas. I’ve written before about how I kept a digital portfolio as part of my Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education qualification. It’s something that I learned a [...]
Two techniques to help teachers make the most of technology
Someone recently asked me a very interesting question: what two techniques would you use to enable academic staff to make the most of new technology for teaching? A number of thoughts ran through my mind at this point: Ooh, interesting question… Hmm, that depends… That sounds like a blog post in the making… What! Only [...]
Reader poll: how do you follow blogs?
I have several reasons for writing this post. Chief among them is curiosity: I like pulling the universe to bits and poking it to see what happens, and I’m genuinely interested in finding out how readers of this blog actually keep up to date with the blogosphere. Second, I’ve spent a lot of time in [...]
Bringing history to life with multimedia guides
Today’s blog post was inspired by a trip to Down House in Kent, where Charles Darwin spent the latter years of his life with his wife and family, and where he wrote, amongst many other works, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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