Digital by Default

Digital by Default

Learning 2.0 update 4/9/2008

OK think I am going to try and do some kind of weekly blog post on Learning 2.0 stuff that have caught my eye as well as my usual occasional rambling blog posts. This week has seen a couple of official ‘launches’ (well they have dropped the beta from their sites!) The first was Edmodo,…

September 4, 2008
A last QuickPint for the road..

A few months ago when I first left JISC/HEFCE I wrote here about my ideas for QuickPint a real ale/pub focused website that I was planning on trying to set up – as much as a shop window to demonstrate what could be achieved outside of the geekier end of the web (as well as…

August 29, 2008
Social Innovation Camp – the sequel!

One of the events I was very sorry to miss earlier this year was the Social Innovation Camp – but as it was in London at just about the time I packed in JISC/HEFCE I wasn’t really in a position to head down to London no matter how interested I was (plus I have my…

August 22, 2008
The education 2.0 debate hits Techcrunch!

..well Techcrunch UK – but still its nice to see education get some coverage outside of the usual suspects. The article kicked off an interesting debate in the comments which I contributed a couple of small points to and enjoyed reading the many intelligent comments (while people were not always agreeing it all remained very…

August 21, 2008
Learn 2.0 start-ups

Since I started at Beanbag I’ve been taking more of an interest in the other start-ups in the whole ‘learn 2.0’ space (yea I know – another effing 2.0 but I can’t think of another way to describe it – sorry!). Anyway I thought I would just do a quick post about the sites I…

August 10, 2008