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teaching and learning forum
Tuesday, 26 April 2005 7:44 P GMT+01
Tonight Hetty gave a really interesting presentation on the ALERT (Accessibility in Learning Environments and Related Technologies) project and its outcomes. People seemed to like the 5-7 slot with wine - they probably just liked the wine really, whi
Category: work
guess the google
Monday, 25 April 2005 11:25 P GMT+01
cool game... there's half a dozen images I can't get, so I can't seem to beat 359.
Category: play
ha - an excuse!
Friday, 22 April 2005 5:40 P GMT+01
From the Guardian, worrying about whether emails can damage your IQ: "The distractions of constant emails, text and phone messages are a greater threat to IQ and concentration than taking cannabis, according to a survey of
Category: work
what's in a name?
Friday, 22 April 2005 10:40 A GMT+01
I like this. There's a brief overview in English here for the linguistically challenged, though the original is much better - it covers whether you should name a baby according to what it looks like, or whether you grow to look/behave like your na
Category: general
out of the mouths of babes...
Friday, 22 April 2005 10:23 A GMT+01
8 March: International Women‘s day. Rightly the small daughter of my friend asks: “So, are all the other days men‘s day then?“From Margot Wallström's page at the European Union. (She's the Commissioner for Institutional Relations and Communi
Category: general
oh joy...
Thursday, 21 April 2005 2:25 P GMT+01
...back at my desk. Only several hundred messages that couldn't be brutally hacked via telnet to deal with. Very odd concept having a desktop pc again after getting into the habit of my laptop. How novel, a keyboard that does what I tell it, exc
Category: general
back to reality!
Tuesday, 19 April 2005 12:59 A GMT+01
Well, not quite. Still off work to go to Wakefield with Teesside tomorrow, but making a brief detour today to drop off Max at home, and to join the new chamber choir at the Sage. Conducted by the very talented Ed Milner, late leader of Felling Male
Category: play
flight home...
Monday, 18 April 2005 12:59 A GMT+01
...was surprisingly stress free. As with last year, can't believe how little security there is when you check your bags straight through on the domestic leg of the flight. Scary stuff. Seems insane compared to the welcome you get coming in, despite t
Category: confs
remainder of day 3
Friday, 15 April 2005 4:26 A GMT+01
was spent in the cheescake factory on the inner harbour with Lou and Helen. Hilarious evening all round, helped by cute waiter who probably ended up with paranoia after finding us convulsed in laughter (I kid you not, we nearly all had accidents at o
Category: confs
Greg, you'd be surprised... (or not)
Friday, 15 April 2005 4:04 A GMT+01
I did a quick search - on the conference, rather than specifically for blogs, but as well as me, Patrick and Thomas, there's Jim Dvorak and Scott Feldstein. See also a Dutch Blackboard blog, and Andy's Bb help blog. Also comments from Jim Farmer,
Category: confs
day 2
Friday, 15 April 2005 12:59 A GMT+01
I have to say I am shamed by Thomas' blog - I cannot for the life of me get used to typing fast in a presentation, and my laptop is one of those which moves the cursor randomly; also as my t-mobile wireless access isn't available in the convention
Category: confs
oh dear, I'm famous...
Thursday, 14 April 2005 5:51 P GMT+01
...though I'm usually infamous at these things, so maybe that's an improvement... watch those statistics soar Last session was on creating community, which I hope I've played no small part in in the UK over the last few years, even if I do say so m
Category: confs
life is SO unfair
Thursday, 14 April 2005 3:04 P GMT+01
I've got a blazing headache this morning, but it's NOT a hangover. If I knew I'd get clobbered by a migraine, I'd have got very drunk last night to make it worthwhile! Looks like Ian has supplied my blog address to the Blackboard site (probably as in
Category: confs
first notes
Thursday, 14 April 2005 5:57 A GMT+01
have begun to post the notes I made in the planned sessions entry.
Category: confs
wednesday's papers (plan)
Thursday, 14 April 2005 12:59 A GMT+01
Supporting multiple T&L styles with the Bb Academic SuiteAdministrative framework for Bb Academic SuiteChallenging the bell curve: increase Bb adoption on your campusAdmitted students and the Bb Community System / Strategic Stewardship: compellin
Category: confs
first day
Wednesday, 13 April 2005 4:01 A GMT+01
Notes coming up shortly (not in Bb's good enough books to go for drinks with them, leaving that to Malcolm! Hopeful faces at news I was leaving replaced fell at discovering that I won't be going completely and getting out of their hair!!) Brief over
Category: confs
word of the day
Wednesday, 13 April 2005 3:42 A GMT+01
Discovery. That's an elision of Disaster Recovery, courtesy of the legendary VK himself. Doesn't say everything?!
Category: confs
Tuesday's papers (plan)
Tuesday, 12 April 2005 12:59 A GMT+01
360o e-Learning Faculty Support System moved to WendesdayPositioning Bb on Campus: Increasing Faculty Buy-in Using Support, Training and Public Relations Techniques notes are hereTroubleshooting Techniques for Blackboard System Adminstrators (even
Category: confs
likely candidates
Tuesday, 12 April 2005 12:30 A GMT+01
"The Bb Community System is one of the most exciting new products for 2005" - pray, what have I been spending my licence fee on for the last three years then...? At least only one of the papers I had identified on first glance of the webpag
Category: confs
first impressions
Monday, 11 April 2005 11:09 P GMT+01
Well, I've just registered, at the same time as the girl from MD whose name I can't remember who was on the Grand Canyon trip last year. Came out & headed back over the skywalk to the hotel, only to be hollered from the street below and waved at
Category: confs
what a view...
Monday, 11 April 2005 5:52 P GMT+01
Excellent - Tmobile wireless works on the roof. I'm sitting on the sundeck (which in fact is on the roof of the 6th floor) next to the pool that isn't, with my laptop and a book. (found a Barnes and Noble next to Hard Rock Cafe; couldn't help but go
Category: confs
royal wedding
Monday, 11 April 2005 12:31 A GMT+01
Having totally missed yesterday through travelling, I don't know what coverage was provided by the american stations, but I've just got back into my room, turned the TV on, and NBC are showing a re-run of the 1981 Charles-Diana wedding. I do think th
Category: general
bon voyage... not
Sunday, 10 April 2005 6:26 P GMT+01
Well, here I am, and paying for the privilege of wireless access, but hey, never mind. The gym is free (and empty, when I just looked) as is the hot tub, which, believe it or not, has a rule that you can't go in it alone!!!!!! Shame the pool isn't op
Category: confs