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Closing the door on open education..
..for a while anyway. Even before I returned to JISC for a year I had become extremely interested in the whole open education movement. At JISC I was lucky enough to work on the OER programme a little which meant meeting a whole army of incredibly intelligent and committed people working in the area. I…
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Feeling better about [#bebettr] ?
Well not really 😦 When I decided to take on running Be Bettr this time and make it something much larger scale and a little bit more formal I thought I would either still be working for JISC or maybe freelancing – either way I would have had available headspace for Bettr. As it happens…
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Back to school(ish)
Many years ago (1997) I was pretty competent writing HTML from scratch in Notepad. The sites were basic but I kept up with the standards and was pretty proud to have taught myself how to contribute to the web. A couple of years later I added some basic CSS knowledge to the mix and some…
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[#drumbeat] reflections
I’ve had a week to reflect on my Drumbeat experience now and am feeling more able to report on it in a more balanced manner. I did have a great time and found the event inspiring in places and never less than interesting but it wasn’t without its problems as well. I really struggled with…
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[#drumbeat] tagcloud
…powered by Tagxedo (as always). Did a little bit of data clean up and it is based on tweets from the week of the conference rather than just the two main days but I think it looks pretty good 🙂 Also here is a link to the Summarizr analysis of the Twitter activity around the…