Flitteracy: literacy for the web

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

There are so many different ways of thinking about what it is we do.  The paper that I've just finished ended up being more about literacy than I expected.  It started out as an analysis of the Beijing ticketing scam and become so much more.  It lead to all sorts ...

Doing the other things that interest me

Friday, September 5th, 2008

I've spent the week (well most of it) finishing off the design of the Campus Club website.  It's the first site I've designed since early in my PhD (aside from this one and it still needs work).   I love playing with web design but I just don't have much time.  ...

Books: Now disabled with more technology

Friday, August 8th, 2008

I've had this great idea!  Why should the recording industries, both movies and music, get all the fun?  What we need is a technology that allows us to restrict readership of books.  No more passing books between book pirates. The idea is simple.  Each book comes with a unique visualiser, without ...

Researching groups

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. ...

Conversing with data

Monday, January 7th, 2008

So I had this really cool idea this morning to look at the activity in the teaching wiki and compare it to data from my PhD. I thought it would be interesting to see when students where working (eg time of day, day of week, etc). The biggest problem ...