Archive for September, 2006

creativity

Saturday, September 30th, 2006

If Ofsted says it and the BBC reports it, it must be true.  Creativity is good for learners.  The BBC picks up on creativity in relation to school children working with creatives (designers and writers for example) but in the broader picture, this strengthens the impact of iLife in education.

how not to ask for IT support

Friday, September 29th, 2006

At the time, of course, I felt entirely justified in ranting on about the college IT policy. But as it hasn’t got me anywhere, it clearly wasn’t worth it.
For the 2nd time in 3 weeks, I was expecting learners to listen to audio online and found that (another set of) PCs had had the [...]

jobs in music

Sunday, September 17th, 2006

I’ve been thinking about a project to create short videos of conversations with musicians, talking about their job roles – what do they involve, where does the work come from and so on. The sort of thing that guest lectures are great for, but then guest lectures are difficult to set up.
LSC likes to [...]

Am I odd or something?

Sunday, September 17th, 2006

OK I know the answer to that one.
Here I am lapping up the feeds and podcasts of a world community exploring learning technologies with such enthusiasm and beautiful pedagogy, and in my own instituion (hundreds of staff) the interest is virtually zilch. And this at a time when moodle is being rolled out. [...]

ECDL – revisions

Monday, September 11th, 2006

Great news from this interview with David Baugh – ECDL is being revised, hopefully to become more than just a hommage to Bill Gates, but a meaningful qualification for all tech users. Were equal ops addressed when ECDL was devised?