eLearning stuff

just need to post this to get technorati to verify the blog Technorati Profile

just seeing if Elgg will pick this up.

Yesterday Nominet announced a £5million research foundation…..
……..announce the creation of the Nominet Foundation, a charitable organisation that will fund education, research and development initiatives in the UK Internet industry.
The Foundation will aim to launch in Summer 2008 with a first year donation of £5 million.
The Board has begun the process of setting up the organisation […]

A recent conversation with a project student who is looking at Knowledge Management (KM) and Communities of Practice (CoP) started some thoughts about lurkers in communities.
Part of my day job has been to set up and run the HELP-CETL’s Knowledge Exchange Network (KEN), a KM/CoP solution - if you’re interested there’s an introduction available.
The project student is looking at KEN […]

I’m suffering from profile fatigue. Currently I’m working on profiles for:

a Mahara installation
an Elgg Installation
LinkedIn (as I keep on getting invites and guess I should sort this one out as a priority)
Technorati (Technorati Profile)

In a recent blog Brian Kelly asks Is Second Life Accessible?. I’m still musing about Second Life, having had some indifferent experiences in the past. The discussion raised by Brian’s blog include a post from James Clay asking if people really think that  “all digital resources must be universally accessible to everyone” .
Brian then states
 “I’m currently working […]

Seeing this Royal Navy video makes me think they may have scored an own goal. The comment about not being able to call out a service technician and just turning the server off and on again…..with only a second or so between flicking the switch does make me wonder just how good the training is…..

I […]

A while back I posted this to the Emerge site
Second Degree burns from Second Life
After the London event I thought I’d better try and confront my scepticism and see what was so engaging about Second Life. So after a quick installation I got about 15 minutes before my (new and expensive) laptop flicks to a […]

When I first got involved with the EMERGE project I started blogging about Communties of Practice and here’s the orginal……
I Community therefore I Practice?
OK, what is it with COPs?
Why is there an assumption that just because you have a community of made up of random individuals that you have a CoP? How can anyone “set […]

Bear with it, the blog will get sorted soon once I get the Dinghy one sorted out