Archive for February, 2008
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
I've been thinking recently about the ideas behind blogging. From what I can gather, the original theory of blogs (if there ever was one) was to keep track of what you were finding. In fact, Tim Berners-Lee highlighted that exact problem in his proposal - how to keep ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
I attended the departmental beginning of semester breakfast this morning and managed to catch up with Prof. M. (my PhD Supervisor). We're thinking of writing a paper about international students and group work. There's some fundamental assumptions about group work that really needs to be thought through. ...
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Sunday, February 17th, 2008
This weekend I've managed to install a couple of different applications to help me do what I want to.
The first thing was eXe (which is a bizarre thing to have on a Mac). It's a small app which assists in the development of learning materials. Without having to ...
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Sunday, February 10th, 2008
So I got sick of the deep purple style. Now I can't decide on a new style which I can mod up to be my whole site.
I can't update the installation either cos I kept fiddling and now fantastico doesn't recognise what version of WordPress it is. Doody wordpress. Doody ...
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Sunday, February 10th, 2008
It's about structure. The more I think about it, the more I realise that learning needs to be structured. Nunan came up with an interesting concept years ago called feral learning, which he didn't really define, but which struck a chord with me. I've often thought that ...
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