Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • Collecting OERs

    One of the upcoming bits of work I am pretty excited about is once again in the realm of Open Education Resources (OERs) and in particular the second element of Strand C of the upcoming programme of work ‘Enhancing the discovery and reuse of OER materials – Collections of OER based around a thematic area’…

  • Schooloscope from BERG

    I’ve written on this blog before about BERG; they were the inspiration for my weeknotes and I was massively impressed with the Popular Science/MagPlus stuff they did for the iPad but actually the reason I initially subscribed to their blog was a 4iP funded project until recently codenamed Ashdown. Schooloscope (Ashdown) launched today (I think)…

  • Survive or Thrive Conference

    I’m pretty pleased to be involved with the Survive or Thrive conference for three reasons (1) it is occasionally nice to be working on something that I actually feel I know what I’m talking about (2) it has been an opportunity for Stef and I to put into action some of the events related website…

  • [JISC] Weeknote 12/33

    Short week again due to the Bank Holiday plus Friday was a little blurry due to getting sucked in to the election coverage til far too late (and early). Spent alot of this week thinking, talking and writing about ‘synthesis’…..now I have long since given up trying to define what the hell we mean by…

  • Trying Twitter Blackbird Pie

    Yesterday Twitter released a tool that creates an embeddable version of individual ‘tweets’ so they can more easily be used for quotes in blogs etc – it is rather oddly called Blackbird Pie. Using Twitter quotes in blogposts is more and more common and I’ve been known to do it myself on the odd occasion.…