Posterous users flock to WordPress: Technology shelf life

  by  theogeo  So WordPress saw a 250% increase in imports from Posterous within 24 hours of the announcement that it had been acquired by Twitter.  Only 18 months ago, in August 2010, Posterous was announcing that WordPress was a dying platform.  It was quite aggressively encouraging bloggers to use its import tool to move over to [...]

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Exporting Kindle book clippings to Evernote

I’ve been using my Kindle for reading PDFs of papers and it’s been very handy being able to harvest clippings from these via the text file these aggregate in to support various documents I’ve had to write.  Most of the books I’ve read on the Kindle have been fiction, but more recently I’ve been buying [...]

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Smoke: The convenient truth

Slideshare have announced the winners of their World’s best presentation 2010 competition.  The winning presentation is Smoke – the convenient truth.  No death by bullet points here, if only lecture slides were like this!  

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Learning by doing

I came across this video of JP Rangaswami on his blog, Confused of  Calcutta, where he was Musing about learning by doing. I like what he says about enlightened teachers not getting upset by students referring to Wikipedia for the their homework, but rather telling students their task is to write a wikipedia article. I’ve [...]

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Becoming a student again

Today I became a student again as I started my Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education.  The course is run by my institution, the University of Dundee, and there are about 30 of us enrolled in this cohort.  We kicked off today with a one day workshop, and whilst we predominantly study by distance [...]

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Did you know? … and mobile learning

I came across this video via David Hopkins‘ blog e-Learning Blog//Don’t waste your time. It’s the fourth in a series of videos which have looked at current and future global trends relating to technology and populations etc. One of the things that stood out to me in the video was the statement at the end, [...]

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Preparing medical students for electives in resource poor countires

Many medical students will be getting ready to go off on their medical electives this summer.  Whilst some will be going off to exotic places there are others who choose to go to resource poor countries.   At Dundee we have links with Malawi and some of our students go there for their electives.  The key [...]

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Motivators for engaging in e-learning

One of the things I am reflecting on this week is what motivates teachers to engage with e-learning.  Many of the people I’m starting to interact with via blogs and Twitter are already pretty engaged in e-learning, but what was it that got you motivated to get engaged.  Do you find it easy to get [...]

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Basic controlled research into e-learning

I’ve been scouring the literature recently to see if I can find some evidence of the impact of e-learning and the use of some Web 2.0 tools on student learning outcomes.  I haven’t yet found anything much of note.  A number of the papers I’ve read end up highlighting the need for more research. Donald [...]

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Getting started!

I’ve just come to the end of my first week in my new post of Lecturer (e-Learning) at the Medical School at  Dundee.  As with most new jobs the first week has been spent getting to know people and arranging meetings to introduce myself to individuals.  As I meet my new colleagues the key things [...]

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