Challenges

Galway harbourBack from blustery, wet, humid Ireland.  That’s not fair.  It’s true but makes it sound like I had no fun which I did.  It was very beneficial for work too!  I’ve made a couple of posts over on my work blog – one on my presentation to a careers conference and one on a meeting about the National Digital Learning Repository (NDLR).  I had a further meeting on Friday with Sharon Flynn who works for NUI Galway CELT and heads up the Learning Technology side of things.

Our conversation reminded me yet again of how many shared problems learning technology units have.  Not much of a surprise there but I find I tend to forget that between such meetings.  It got me to thinking about more ways of making this happen.  We have an M25 Learning Technology jiscmail & Moodle course with occasional get togethers but I got to thinking that isn’t this something that ALT should be enabling more of.

The HE careers services equivalemt (AGCAS) runs regular courses for its members.  For example there is one called “Challenges” where participants look at national, institutional and personal issues in the context of their service with a focus on contrasting there own experiences and learning from each other.  Perhaps i should drop an email to ALT…

Image: Galway http://flickr.com/photos/phalinn/348920424/

Taking a Leaf out of Charlie’s Blog

book leaf decompositionI keep telling myself I should blog more regularly and when blogging not to worry so much about every post being carefully edited, considered, re-edited, and so on. If I followed the latter then the former would occur…  so here goes!

This has been kicked-started by a talk I attended yesterday by Charlie Beckett, an LSE blogger who writes a really interesting blog on Journalism & New Media.

He was talking to a group of students who are about to leave for China and in the Autumn will be starting the second year of a new masters programme that the LSE runs with Fudan university, Shanghai.  The students will be blogging about their experiences on the Fudan Team blog. Continue reading “Taking a Leaf out of Charlie’s Blog”

Those Horizons (again!)

Coast near Cala Gonone, SardiniaFirst post since my hols (very nice, thank you!) and I’m flagging up something I found before I hit the beach which follows on from my Future Technologies post.

Scott Leslie has shared his recent presentation on the 2008 Horizon Report – 6 technologies on the horizon for educational institutions. There is also a wiki page with links to explore this further. Interesting stuff. I’m still not clear on one of the long-term horizons: “Social Operating Systems” and would love someone to explain it to me but the examples that Scott lists for it look pretty cool and I’ll definitely be trying some out.

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