Weinberger suggests that ‘everything is miscellaneous’ – and there is much to agree with in his world view. But one of the biggest puzzles to me is why so many blogs are just collections or quotes of other people’s views/pictures/videos? Are blogs also just miscellany at heart? Does it matter? Is miscellany just another word [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged blogs, cognitive science, learning, miscellaneous on March 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Business as usual
Posted in Uncategorized on March 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Despite the fact that we are being reviewed this week, business in the Institute carries on as normal. We are just completing our annual promotions round. Ideally, everyone submits a refreshed and revised CV to the promotions panel (consisting of all the managers) who (a) provide feedback on the presentation of the CV – the [...]
Beyond Current Horizons
Posted in Uncategorized on March 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last week spent a couple of fascinating days in the company of some wonderfully stimulating people. We gathered under the auspice of FutureLab as the Expert Advisory Group for the Beyond Current Horizons programme, which aims to provide a ‘long term and challenging vision for education in the context of socio-technological change to 2025 and [...]
Current events
Posted in management, tagged 2012, grand challenges, IET, management, new courses, promotions, scholarship on February 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Almost a week at work, and since ostensibly this blog is about the Institute of Educational Technology as we run up to review, I guess I should put something in about what I’ve been up to. A few highlights to get us up to date…
We started the week with IET Committee, which was pretty busy, [...]
Uncanny (Second) Life
Posted in Research, Uncategorized, tagged uncanny; second life; alternate realities; on February 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Spent a very enjoyable morning talking about alternate reality games, Second Life and Halo in a supervisory team meeting with my PhD student, followed by a fascinating talk by Sian Bayne from Edinburgh University on educational uses of social technologies. She talked about the ‘uncanny’ quality of Second Life, a concept that set me off.
As [...]
An Acting Director Directs Change!
Posted in change, tagged change, management, new building on February 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If it is possible for something to change, you can bet your bottom dollar it’s changing at the moment! Life in Universities used to be fairly stable, fairly quiet and fairly predictable, but no more. There are challenges on all horizons, many of them very exciting. I am quite happy to embrace change – my [...]
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