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Author Archives: Jerry Leeson

I have worked in IT all my adult working life and consider myself to be a relative newcomer to education. My interests are around technology and the impact that it has on society in general but with a focus on education.

Live coverage of the SCORM 2.0 workshop

For anyone interested in what may be happening at the SCORM 2.0 workshop, I see Mark Oehlert is covering it using Cover It Live here.
Cheers,
Jerry

I blog, therefore I am

Or perhaps that should be ‘I think, therefore I (can) blog’. Not perhaps an accurate use of Descartes’ method, but it would be interesting to see what great philosophers of earlier times would have made of ‘digital identities’ or the ‘digital self’.
Stephen Downes posts a really interesting article ‘My digital identity’ and relates aspects […]

on “effective practice with e-Portfolios”

“Effective Practice with e-Portfolios - Supporting 21st century learning” is a recent (September 2008) JISC publication and is well worth a read if you are into e-portfolios. The publication starts out introducing e-portfolios and looks at why they matter, then goes on to look at them from a number of different perspectives including:

the learner’s […]

.tel the world a little bit more about yourself

ok - so this is for those of you who just love having an online presence and don’t mind being quite public about how people can contact you.
In the next few months we are going to see the launch of a new Top Level Domain (TLD) called ‘.tel’. Unlike websites, this will be only […]

My first post using Google Chrome

So this morning when I fired up my browser (Firefox) for the first time, Google’s home page had changed again - yesterday the stump jump plough, today a whole new browser is available. I started to read about it yesterday on Google’s blog and obviously there is a stack of posts all over the […]

one from (the?) left field

Not the usual sort of technology that I comment on but the stump jump plough would have been the iPhone of the 1800’s (that’s probably doing it a bit of a dis-service). Anyway, its nice to see the local Google team recognising this with a bit of a local flavour on their home […]

a random ramble on e-Portfolios

Working on a report for e-Portfolios at the moment and it is really interesting to hear the passion and conviction in people when they talk about what an e-Portfolio is. From the JISC e-Portfolio Overview page there is a great little text box which simply states
Fundamentally an ‘e-portfolio’ is the product created […]

the week that was

so… not much to post about today but here’s a few reflections. My iPod Touch is getting better all the time - the release of the iPhone has resulted in a steady stream of new apps that can be installed on the iPod too and with its networking capability its just getting better and […]

Catchment Detox

Over the last few months I have been spending a bit of time looking at various games platforms, particularly web-based games. Here’s a new initiative from the ABC called Catchment Detox supporting learning about environmental issues and management of catchments. From the website:
It’s an online game where you’re in charge of the whole […]