Digital by Default

Digital by Default

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)…

May 12, 2010
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…

May 10, 2010
[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…

May 8, 2010
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.…

May 5, 2010
[JISC] Weeknote 11/33

So last week I was 1/3 of the way through this little experiment with weeknotes. The main thing that happened was that I realised that I was in danger of completely losing the plot as far as managing my work load. One of the defining elements of life as a JISC Programme Manager is that…

May 3, 2010