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Comment on An uncertain future: can technology help? by Hemant

Hemant — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 07:48:31 +0000

Great post! I?m just stritang out in community management/marketing media and trying to learn how to do it well resources like this article are incredibly helpful. As our company is based in the US, it?s all a bit new to us. The example above is something that I worry about as well, how to show your own genuine enthusiasm and share the fact that your product is useful in that case

Comment on Partners raising our game, here on internationalisation by Nevenka

Nevenka — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 07:09:06 +0000

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Comment on Using digital media to improve teaching and learning by Mohammad

Mohammad — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 06:30:54 +0000

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Comment on Research in a climate of cuts by Diral

Diral — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 04:27:19 +0000

Hi,I saw a post on the FB pvriate BCW group about your research. I have a 15yo son and 9 yo daughter if you need subjects/participants. Also, as a parent, I am very interested in your research.I’m how I can best guide my guide (if that’s possible) my digital age kids.

Comment on Imagine Google without a search box by Rayven

Rayven — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 02:39:30 +0000

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Comment on Lend me your ears dear university web managers! by Ilona

Ilona — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 02:35:12 +0000

Nice post! I’d use em-http-request for this oieartpon when thinking in terms of EventMachine. Have a look at it’s wiki for detailed explanation how to do that: https://github.com/igrigorik/em-http-request/wiki/Parallel-Requests

Comment on Manage your research information – spend more time on research by ulisstrade

ulisstrade — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:53:20 +0000

Я долго искал где в Брянске продается автоматические ворота и кейтеринг. Наконец то нашел где это все можно купить. Есть такая торговая компанияУлисс-Трейд. И доставка есть, и сервис. У них можно купить оборудование супермаркета.

Comment on Using digital media to improve teaching and learning by Lydiaa

Lydiaa — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:29:10 +0000

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Comment on Apple’s new iBooks: a force for good? by Butterflly

Butterflly — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:34:49 +0000

We must ptroect the electronic system with a Faraday cage.. A faraday cage will ptroect electronics and electrical machines from sun spots, radiation and other things that can wipe out all electrical systems. Just some food for though.

Comment on Imagine Google without a search box by Vicky

Vicky — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:21:54 +0000

Santosh Kottamasu September 27th, 2011 6:21 pm Great aictrle Lyndon! Good job! Easy to read and understand, covers several important aspects to be considered while designing an online store. Looking forward to Part 2

Comment on Using digital media to improve teaching and learning by Guilherme

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Comment on The digital humanities surrounds you by Foo

Foo — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:34:02 +0000

I was aculatly thinking last night about a session on the ecologies of DH as well our tech does not come from nowhere, and it is material in its impacts on the world. How does that factor into the warm fuzziness of DH community ethos?

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Comment on Imagine Google without a search box by Annisa

Annisa — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:52:11 +0000

That’s pttery cool, my oldest is only 5 and he can use our computers (both laptop and desktop) like it’s nothing so I’m sure when he gets older things like this will be awesome for him!

Comment on Why watching TV can be good for you by jake

jake — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:18:02 +0000

Comment on The digital humanities surrounds you by Niall Said

Niall Said — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:37:12 +0000

I think you’re arguing slightly at cross purposes with Fish, or rather, broadly agreeing with him without quite acknowledging it. To my mind, your statement that the digital humanities can’t be reduced to a manifesto more or less accords with his statement that digital has no inherent political valence.

But he’s right that certain trends in digital humanities are insurgent and radical. In this era of technology patent wars, and the walled-garden approach to tech sharing represented by the Apple and Android app stores, even something as apparently neutral as a commitment to open source has a political/ideological undertow. That it can’t be reduced to a manifesto is neither here nor there.

Of course, there are more strands to the digital humanities than the ones Fish is talking about, and you’re perfectly correct to say that it’s a field of emerging traditions (a nice phrase, and a nice way of thinking about it), but again, I don’t see any major disagreement between your views. I don’t, for instance, see him calling for any developments or technologies to be thrown away.

Comment on Lend me your ears dear university web managers! by Jo da Silva

Jo da Silva — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:08:34 +0000

Hi, just wondering what the SEO value of this will be for educational establishments? We do a lot of work for colleges and schools like
East Durham College and are always on the lookout for opportunities. Thanks

Comment on What are the rewards for reusing other people’s resources? by Amber Thomas

Amber Thomas — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:25:25 +0000

Hi Peter. I think you’re right that there is a tendency for academics to feel protective of their materials. Back in 2008 the Good Intentions report ( http://ie-repository.jisc.ac.uk/265/ ) explored this, and if anything the academic community seems even more split in attitudes now. Perhaps its because different concepts of education value content differently? Content can be seen as input or output, process or product, depending on the context, so there are different perspectives on its value to the teaching process.
I’d be interested to hear whether people think subject disciplines are a big factor in academic attitudes. They seem to be a big factor in open access to research, but less has been done around open educational resources.

Comment on What are the rewards for reusing other people’s resources? by Peter Barnes

Peter Barnes — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 13:58:07 +0000

I wonder if HE becoming evermore a business-like, competitive sector as at all to blame of low resource reuse as far as teaching materials. I’ve also got the impression, having worked as a VLE admin for a while, quite a lot if academics are quite touchy what they regard about their intellectual property being accessible beyond their institution. Also, kudos and REF assessment lean towards broadcasting research output rather than teaching materials, do they not.

Comment on Engage students through blogging by Dave

Dave — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 09:53:22 +0000

Not entirely sure about blogging to be honest. Being a mature student returning to academic study it appears that most interactions are done remotely. Call me old fashioned but i still prefer to meet face to face to discuss things. I guess in time i will become savvi in the way in which we appear to interact using more technology

Comment on NUS report on technology: a personal response by Crissy

Crissy — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 03:20:59 +0000

In the complicated world we live in, it’s good to find simple soutilons.

Comment on Imagine Google without a search box by Dave Jones

Dave Jones — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:39:37 +0000

The answer to the first dilemma – how to stop users worrying about the empty search box – was to make it less important. We needed to make sure that whatever the exact search term, like Quixote, users should be able to make interesting discoveries even if the results were not the best. To do this we created relationships between our records based on semantics. This means that users will see suggestions for searches and records that may take them in different (but related) journeys.

Comment on Isn’t Google digitising everything anyway? by John williams

John williams — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:27:46 +0000

Opinions vary, but it is probably fair to say that more than 95% of the world books, magazines, newspapers, videos, films, documents still lay hidden in archives and library music, inaccessible in digital form.

Comment on Imagine Google without a search box by Mr.Sashi

Mr.Sashi — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 12:28:17 +0000

Google without a Searchbox is Unimaginable. But i guess Google comes with much more advancement and i trust Google.

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Comment on Opening up research by John Kirriemuir

John Kirriemuir — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:37:46 +0000

Highly related to this, there’s a UK government e-petition entitled “Knowledge generated by government funding should be freely available”:

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/16041

Comment on UK repositories: working together by Ian Stuart

Ian Stuart — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 17:27:55 +0000

@Steven : not all institutions have the resources to set up, and maintain, an IR. Yes, Southampton have shown how an IR can be deeply integrated into the local academic culture….. but that is the key point: its a LOCAL culture, and not one that can be imposed from the outside…

Comment on UK repositories: working together by Steve Hitchcock

Steve Hitchcock — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:22:38 +0000

200 repositories in the UK sounds like a good number. As well as celebrating this, is it time to look critically at those HE institutions that still don’t have an IR? The majority is not always right, but when the majority of institutions have IRs there is at least precedent and a case to answer for those that continue not to. My guess is that some of those institutions will not wish to remain outliers when aware of the commitment of many of their peers.

Comment on JISC Mobile is live: what do you think? by jason @ mobile website design

jason @ mobile website design — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 21:31:11 +0000

Good to see others embracing the world of Mobile websites.

Comment on The Impact Factor by Ernesto

Ernesto — Mon, 23 May 2011 11:27:31 +0000

Thanks for this. I hope as much people as possible read this and take note.

Comment on The value of local developers by Gwen van der Velden

Gwen van der Velden — Mon, 09 May 2011 13:23:43 +0000

Interesting post, thanks Paul.

The idea of strategic developers struck me because in my world (learning and teaching development and strategy) there are similar patterns to be discerned. The lack of career progression for developers (in our case educational developers, staff developers or more recently organisational developers) is as much of an issue as it is in your more technically related world, it seems. The idea of strategic developers has been mooted in my field as well, but has been superseded by that of organisational developers. I’ll come back to that.

I guess what I’ve noticed is that new roles don’t develop because the people who would be ready for such a role can see the opportunity and the need for it, they develop instead because the organisation needs such a role. It then helps a great deal if the community of professionals ready for making that next step is ready with a good working solution like you suggest, but creating it from the bottom up is going to be a hard slog. Or it certainly was in our experience.

This is also where the role of organisational developers is interesting. By and large (there are different types) these roles occur when an organisation decides at some point to undergo substantial change. Often it starts with big restructuring or a new direction for the institution altogether. What the senior, central team then needs is people who can be allocated and trusted to sort out the operational implementation and specifically, develop staff and processes for adjustment. In essence they help develop staff and systems for effectiveness in the new organisational structure or direction. Fascinating jobs and the content of the organisational change they support, can differ tremendously between ‘projects’.

Oddly though, these jobs tend to be at a similar level as educational, staff or indeed technical developers.
I guess it is still the case that if you move into a role where you’re taking a lead on change (whether it is people, technical or organisational), you are effectively becoming a manager. Maybe it just says something about our concepts of what it is that managers do in the UK HE sector, that we tend not to think of it that way….