This last week I finally got my hands on an iPad (apart from that one in the States) without visiting the Apple store and waiting in a terribly long line just to get a quick touch.
Turns out as part of the ‘emerging technologies’ strand of our Learner Support programme we get to buy awesome stuff [...]

Workshop Six: New professionals: Build your network using social media
My final workshop of the conference was another of Jo Alcock’s sessions, this time focusing on social media – blogs, Twitter and social networking in particularly. I’m not really sure whether I’d be considered an ‘early adopter’ or not, having originally set up this blog in January 2006 – back when [...]

Workshop Three: The bright and dark sides of the web
Linda Jones (the dark) and Timothy Collinson (the bright) from the University of Portsmouth ran this unusually interactive tag-team extravaganza to showcase practical examples of their creative engagement with web 2.0, whilst highlighting some of the pitfalls/dangers of web applications. Participants were also encouraged to share [...]

Imagine you’ve just finished your greatest work to date. Imagine your explosion of creativity is not necessarily appreciated by all. Imagine the local authorities are not best pleased by your street art. Imagine you turn up a day later and you find your piece gone. That’s right, your work has gone and nothing remains but [...]

Where do you start with your ‘reflective writing’ on one of the most interesting meetings you’ve been to in a very long time when you’re still reeling from the god awful news that your ‘hopes of a better future’ lie in the hands of David Cameron? Well, I think the best thing to do is [...]