Archive for 2008

Passing notes outside class

Monday, August 18th, 2008

“Many of the students we spoke to are making some use of their own tools to socialise and network in personal and public spaces, and in doing so are actually supporting their learning in that they use these tools to communicate and share information and resources between themselves and their peers, even though they did [...]

Rules

Monday, August 18th, 2008

It is that time of year again, teaching will be under way in a month or less. This photo makes me think about negotiating the ground rules with new classes of students (I’m a bit more liberal than the ‘manager’). I’ll need to add in some rules about using Moodle/e-mail as well, if only to [...]

Proper Museums

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

proper museums have things in glass cases with typewritten descriptions on card. Accept nothing less.

Partial eclipse

Friday, August 1st, 2008

14% partial eclipse visible from Midlands despite showers and cloud.

Summer quiz

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Guess which USB device was not working properly?

Answer is in the ALT/TITLE tag of the image, so hold your mouse over the yellow balloon to see!