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Twenty-seven-year-old researcher, lecturer and journalist Jennifer Jones has a fluid but pared-down working approach. She openly conducts her work as a researcher and lecturer through her personal website, using her blog and Twitter, on which she has 3,000 followers. She works virtually as she travels between two university employers in the Midlands and the West of Scotland. Her inspiration comes from media activists and groups like Occupy, who use the free resources of the net to group like-minded people for action and discourse. All of her activity is open for scrutiny and for tracking - there are no pseudonyms - and she records everything she does on her website.

Why Uni home pages don't work.

Plagiarism, appropriation, standing on the shoulders etc. Part of an online spat about running a course that actively explores 'plagiarism' as a form of writing.

Interesting line up of online courses for 2014

Brian Kelly describes open educational practice.

Short post linking to reports on Moocs and where they might lead.

Thought you WCELers might be interested in this... Dean ICT Education: Australia vs NZ by Prof John Hosking, Formerly Auckland Uni, now Australia National University Auckland University's Professor John Hosking was a leading figure in New Zealand's Computer Science community. However in 2011 he followed Phar Lap, Russell Crowe and Pavlova across the ditch, in his case taking up the role as Dean of the College of Engineering and CS at the Australian National University in Canberra.

No doubt you guys will have caught this news.... "Google is developing a tool to help teachers manage classroom tasks, a move that should have education app vendors trembling as if they'd been sent to the principal's office. The software, called Classroom , will become part of Apps for Education, Google's cloud email and collaboration suite for schools and universities, Google said Tuesday"

Short, easy hints on making class discussion more effective.

Info on Apps at Monash - see e.g. Roadmap.

EdTech appear to step outside the bounds of as CC BY NC SA license.

Not a day passes by without doing an online search. You may know of basic search operators like AND, OR, etc. but an increasing number of web applications support even more keywords that'll help you fine tune your search to the core. Here are some you may have never heard of.

Who knows anyone who has a keyboard we could try this with?

"That "Eureka" moment when a student thunders over an educational hurdle opening up a new realm of learning, is the holy grail for educators. The technical term is a "threshold concept", and they're being discovered in every discipline from economics to engineering, design and English grammar."

Long list of case studies of using Apps at university. Most just with students but some eg Boise are with staff. Useful for the email project.

Google OS

Calendar, email, docs OS wonder what will come next