Digital by Default

Category: work

  • Putting the Fun in Functional

    Another presentation that has been around for a while but I have only just discovered (thanks to Dave Briggs) is Putting the Fun in Functional by Amy Jo Kim which I have found really interesting and useful. I’m not a gamer in any shape or form, never really liked them, although I did enjoy elements…

  • ‘HE in a Web 2.0 World’ report

    This week saw the launch of the final report from the Committee of Inquiry into the Changing Learner Experience titled HE in a Web 2.0 World.  This Committee (which despite its close ties to JISC is actually independent as I understand it) was formed in my final months at JISC so this report has been…

  • Introduction to backchannels and the amplified conference

    The final section of my introduction to events 2.0 was about the concept of the backchannel and beyond that the whole concept of ‘amplifying’ the conference.  Now as you can see from the links at the bottom of the page I have been thinking about some of these ideas for quite some time now and…

  • Death to Death by Powerpoint

    Introduction to Innovative Presentation Styles The second part of my presentation around events 2.0 was about Innovative Presentation Styles – its pretty thin and could do with being revisited in the future but was essentially filler on this occasion between the unconference stuff I wanted to talk about and the backchannel/amplified conference stuff thats close…

  • Fall of a HERO

    So it seems as if hero.ac.uk – a website that was once a shining beacon of higher education collaboration, and one that still generates enviable traffic and Google rankings – is being allowed to quietly wither and die.  As far as I know there has been no announcement but a quick look at the staff…