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Who are you when you are online? Your identity.

Many events at work and around the world has had me asking questions this week about my own online identity:

How can I managing my online identities in so many websites?
How is my identity recorded online?
Where does my online identity permeate?
Can my online identity be revealed?
How do I protect myself if I’m being libelled or threatened […]

Plain English copyright for education

This struck me as an unusually clear and direct copyright statement that made it easy to comply with:
http://www.e-strategyguide.gov.au/copyright
The Copyright Aware website has an even simpler copyright statement.
Should be more of this simplicity!
For a plain English copyright usage guide check out both the CopyrightAware and SmartCopying FAQs websites.
Educational publishers, digital media people and web developers should […]

Interactive Learning is exciting

Last night I thoroughly enjoyed watching the program “Derek Tastes of Earwax“, BBC Horizon (2004). Full transcript is available on the BBC website.
A very rough outline - we are all have a varying degrees of crossover between our senses. In some people this is extreme, a condition called synaesthesia. This is where a […]

Interactive Learning is boring

[warning: opinion] Interactive Learning is such a meaningless term often bandied about as though it’s a badge of quality. A simple solitary button is interactive but unless it’s attached to some form of electrode it hardly qualifies as a pedagogically sound educational technique.
To me Engaging Digital Learning would be a better term rather than Interactive […]

Wot’s all this about now, guv?…

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops”
is a Henry Adams quote in Mitch Albom’s book “Tuesdays With Morrie” [ISBN 0751529818]. This quote has helped me understand the power of education.
Inspired by this and an over indulged interest in tech, my goal for this blog is to learn […]