tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69916762011-10-18T23:13:36.960+01:00More (or less) fresh insights from an old blogger!Chris Joblinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01576719714272029114noreply@blogger.comBlogger399125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6991676.post-38746729849068009902011-02-26T14:09:00.000Z2011-02-26T14:09:30.229Z2011-02-26T14:09:30.229Z

Just a quick post to remind you that Fresh and Crispy is moving to a self-hosted WordPress blog  Fresh and Crispy II (blog.cpjobling.me) on Monday 28th February. Using the resources of Google, I've discovered a way to set up redirection so that regular visitors will hardly notice the move. (I'll post a how-to after the move.) Discussions have also been redirected. However, if you are following

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I'm planning to move this blog on the 1st March 2011. Consider this an early warning. Inspired by Jim Groom's Digital Story Telling Course (DS106), I purchased a new domain and Fresh and Crispy II is to be found on blog.cpjobling.me. Fresh and Crispy II is my own self-hosted Wordpress blog. I've already exported my posts from Blogger.com and moved my disqus.com discussion threads over. Now it

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Back in November, member of my social network Alan Cann asked me to participate in a project he was doing with the International Centre for Guidance Studies for the Research Information Network on Social Media for researchers. A few days later, I met online in Skype Chat with researcher Konstantia Dimitrou and we discussed my attitudes to social networking and its use in my teaching and

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During this first couple of weeks of the new teaching term I've been experimenting with using screen capture software as a means of capturing my lectures. Using nothing more than the built-in microphone on my Macbook Pro and an educational license for Camtasia Studio, I've been able to capture several lectures live in the lecture room. When I plug my Mac into the LCD projector, the screen

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Tara Brabazon, writing today for the Times Higher, provides a useful analysis of the common mistakes students make when submitting assignment work and suggests ways that we in academia could improve the first year experience. Her 20-point check list of what students do wrong and how lecturers react to those errors should be published in every student handbook.See this Amp at http://bit.ly/iid0ME

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I've just installed the new TweetdDeck app for Google Chrome and like what I see so far. It takes the "that's so obvious, why wasn't it done before" idea of combining (TweetDeck calls this blending) all you feeds into three columns. Home: for all your identities and the people they follow across all of your social networks; Me: for mentions of your social identities and posts to your facebook

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Last year, I bought a Livescribe Echo Smart Pen with the hope that it would be useful in teaching. Well, here the result of my first attempt to use it "in anger". I used the pen to write out a solution to one of the problems from my module EGLM03 Modern Control Systems while recording a narrative of what I was doing. The pen recorded the pen movement on the special notepaper and matched the

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Welcome to the blogging exercise ICCT class of 2011. Please leave the link to your new blog in the comments.

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A couple of small things:  I've created an open public Diigo group for Connectivism and Connected Knowledge 2011 which you can use to share useful bookmarks (http://groups.diigo.com/group/cck_2011) and a team Pearltree (http://pear.ly/JgB5). I won't have much time to contribute to CCK11, but I'm hoping that my network will help me by curating the must see resources that I might not have time to

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As part of the first week's assignment we've been asked to set up our own webhost and domain. I've registered a new domain cpjobling.me with Godaddy.com and a signed up for the minimum hosting package from cast iron coding (CIC). I'm waiting for my confirmations to come through, then I'll be setting up my name servers using the instructions provided here and Wordpress blog using the instructions

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I've just joined the Evaluation of Learners' Experiences of e-learning Special Interest Group (ELESIG) which is based around a Ning site (elesig.ning.com).  After Chris Hall and David Williams launched a Gwella group, I've noticed an increase in activity and the community that is developing looks to be quite exciting. Was I wrong to reject Ning when they removed free access? Should we have

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2011 apparently marks the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible. To mark the occasion, the BBC made a bit of a splash last week with a sequence of three forty-five minute documentaries fronted by James Naughtie on the commissioning, translation and legacy of the bible. These were followed by 7 hours of readings from the King James Bible made by the great and the good of the

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Just read Stephen Downes' article on the Huffington Post that announces that registration for Connectivsm and Connective Knowledge 2011 (cck11) -- starting 17th January -- is open. I definitely won't have the personal resource to do much there, but it'll be interesting nonetheless.

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Jim Groom is getting ready to launch another massive open online course (MOOC). Tony Hirst, who drew my attention to Jim's course Digital Storytelling (ds106.us) with this post: Massive Open Online Courses all you need to know, has curated a few videos from PLENK2010 facilitator Dave Cormier on the philosophy of a MOOC. I've signed up for Digital Storytelling, but I expect my role to be more as

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Next year I've got a fairly busy schedule. Here are some things that I might be blogging about. I record them here as an aide memoir: Large group assessment The "Flip" Socratic questioning Peer Instruction, Assessment and Support LiveScribe Echo Social networks Student employability and entrepreneurship.  Technically, I expect to be playing with Drupal, Wordpress, BuddyPress, Moodle and Elgg and

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In the media, as the shortest day approaches and with it the end of the old year, it's traditional to look back. Here is the first of my retrospectives on 2010. My tool of the year is Pearltrees (http://www.pearltrees.com), which I discovered during PLENK2010. I've used this as both a curation tool (see my Plenk2010 collection) and as an exploratory learning object builder but it also has a

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There's an interesting debate forming around this post from George Siemens (My Personal Learning Network is the most awesomest thing ever!!) and a response from Jenny Mackness (In defence of lurking). George's stance is that you can't really learn in a community unless you are contributing something, Jenny's that it's OK to observe and not contribute. There are lot's of other interesting points

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Stump Originally uploaded by Chris P JoblingWinter has come early this year. No snow yet in Swansea, but cold enough for frost. For more see Frost on Flickr, and listen to Dylan reading his poem A Winter's Tail (curated by Poetictouch.com), which seems quite appropriate.

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Via OLdaily, November 2010.See this Amp at http://bit.ly/hj1COx

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Alan Cann today announced the availability of the alpha release of the new distributed social network Diaspora. It's seems to be available without the need for invitations and you can get an account by registering at http://diasp.org. Once registered, you'll have a handle: mine is cpjobling@diasp.org. One unique selling point (USP) is that Diaspora has ways of organizing your various networks

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Those of you who are regular readers will know that I spent 10 weeks from September to November immersed (almost literally) in the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Personal Learning Environments, Networks and Knowledge (PLENK2010). As already reported, one of the highlights for me was the guest appearance of Maria Andersen and her intriguing proposal for developing SOCRAIT, a Socratic

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This week I am attending the JISC-sponsored online conference Innovating eLearning 2010. Any posts I make here or in the Community Blog are likely to be on my reflections from this conference. The conference is for paying delegates only, but some materials are out in the public Internet, and I'll refer to them where appropriate. The twitter back-channel is using the hash-tag #jiscel10.

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Short answer ... not much. At least that's how it appears to me at the moment. I do know that I'm all PLENKED out, somewhat depressed and not looking forward to immersing myself in #jiscel10. Perhaps it's a symptom of SAD, or maybe I'm just in mourning.

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Socrates Week 7 in PLENK2010 was concerned with PLE/N tools (What Exists, What is Being Built?): Many of the tools that fit under the PLE/N umbrella have been appropriated by educators from other fields. This isn't necessarily a problem, but it does reflect a sense that educators are not building tools for themselves. The software that we use in this course is a bit of an exception. We [the

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At PLENK2010 participant Heli Nurmi's request (see Test Your Blog Please), I submitted the URL of this blog to http://www.typealyzer.com/ to have it subjected to a Myers-Briggs personality test. It turns out that these scribblings reveal me to be an INTP type (The Thinker) The logical and analytical type. They are especially attuned to difficult creative and intellectual challenges and always

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