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August 29, 2010 - Comment - By: Chris

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  • Issues in Distance Education
    A series of 4 free to download ebooks under a Creative Commons license on the themes of instructional design, emerging technologies, mobile learning and theory and practice of online learning, all

BECTA Closure – Blog round-up

May 26, 2010 - Comment, Whole School Issues - By: Chris

Pic: Closed for BusinessThere have been many posts on the closure of BECTA from some bloggers that I really respect, so I wanted to devote some space in my own blog to collating a few of them. If you think there are others I should include please let me know.

Guest Post: Pinnochio’s Children

May 19, 2010 - Comment, Guest Post - By: Chris

Pic: Shy childThis guest post is a very personal and articulate piece about personal identity and introversion by Nick Shackleton-Jones. He’s kindly allowed me to publish it here which I’ve done because I’ve been considering issues about identity and social interaction but never successfully put those thoughts in writing. I do recognise much of what Nick is saying but it’s not presented as a surrogate portrait of me. It’s a interesting insight into the mind of a type of person whose natural preference is to keep much hidden.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on this…

Communities of Practice conference

May 17, 2010 - Comment, JISC, Netskills - By: Chris

Pic: Etienne Wenger at the Mediating Boundaries conferenceMediating Boundaries: Traversing the landscape of online communities of practice.

This conference was held on the 12th May at the University for the Arts, London. Here are two separate personal reflections from the event, one from myslef and the other by Lindsay Jordan.

Novelty Junkies

April 9, 2010 - Comment, MSc - By: Chris

Pic: baby playing with wrapping paperI really like the people I follow on Twitter. They generate a real buzz of excitement about stuff that is happening that I find very energising.
The thing that gets the Tweeps I follow particularly excited is novelty. When a…

Moving On…

March 19, 2010 - Comment, Professional Development - By: Chris

Pic: Suitcases stacked to the ceilingThe 19th March is my final day as the Training Officer at Sheffield East City Learning Centre. I’ve been here for nearly 5 years and have pretty much loved every minute so I’m leaving with regret.

I thought now would be a good time to take stock of a few thoughts about the move.

Vanity figures

March 17, 2010 - Comment - By: Chris

Pic: Statue in the gardens of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, HollandFor over a year there’s been a link to my blog from the Online Stopwatch site. This has been lovely as that site is insanely popular and it has generated a vast amount of traffic to this blog.
A few days ago I asked Aaron the remove the link. The drop in visitors has been strangely liberating.