The day 2010-11-30 on @techczech
Can http://ge.tt be the true successor to the traitorous Drop.io? Looks very very close! Password protection would help. # edtech # Powered by Twitter Tools
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The day 2010-11-29 on @techczech
RT @ briankotts : “I want my 5 hours back”. No evidence that homework leads 2better learning. http://bit.ly/gejPl5 # edchat > me & my kids 2 :( # Powered by Twitter Tools
Read more →The day 2010-11-28 on @techczech
Does teacher freedom from "bureaucratic control" mean less freedom for students with special needs? http://ow.ly/3gq7G # edchat #senchat # Powered by Twitter Tools
Read more →The day 2010-11-27 on @techczech
I finally understand why Krugman got his Nobel. This deserves to be a book: "The Instability of Moderation" http://ow.ly/3ghOf # E-Learning Journals http://ow.ly/3g3e5 # edtech # Powered by Twitter Tools
Read more →The day 2010-11-26 on @techczech
# moodle2 is out with radical under-the-hood changes. Looking forward to # moodle3 that redesigns the hood. # Powered by Twitter Tools
Read more →The day 2010-11-25 on @techczech
I don't get it! How on Earth can it cost $3,000 to publish a single academic article if you don't pay for peer review http://ow.ly/3flzm # Powered by Twitter Tools
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I don't get it! How on Earth can it cost $3,000 to publish a single academic article if you don't pay for peer review http://ow.ly/3flzm # # Moodle 2.0 finally released! Been running test site on RC and the upgrade's worth it. Still a way to go, though. http://ow.ly/3f7Rx # edtech # "constant ostinato of…
Read more →The day 2010-11-24 on @techczech
# Moodle 2.0 finally released! Been running test site on RC and the upgrade's worth it. Still a way to go, though. http://ow.ly/3f7Rx # edtech # "constant ostinato of Viewing With Alarm somehow never translates into serious large-scale studies of causes and effects" http://ow.ly/3eWTx # Powered by Twitter Tools
Read more →The day 2010-11-23 on @techczech
Genitivizing the ungenitivizable "...faced with a set of terrible choices, people will make terrible decisions." http://ow.ly/3em7b # engchat # RT @ PreKlanguages : Foreign Language for Foreign Policy? http://bit.ly/fEz26c # languages #edchat # mfl #ellchat # Powered by Twitter Tools
Read more →The day 2010-11-21 on @techczech
"Heffer cannot tell his participle from a hole in the ground." http://ow.ly/3dbRK < Or should it be gerund? # engchat # Powered by Twitter Tools
Read more →The day 2010-11-19 on @techczech
Not sure the value metaphor holds for long. RT @ JR_Haugen : ... We give education away, how much do your students value it? # edchat # RT @ mbusicoflight : Does education change slowly? http://www.elearners.com/articles/education-innovations/ # edchat #globaled10 # Putting QuickTime on a PC is a traumatic experience. Kind of like installing a virus…
Read more →The day 2010-11-18 on @techczech
@ MoodleDan Got me thinking about an # Android app for # Moodle Only one I could find: http://bit.ly/9Y0rpy doesn't work with our install. in reply to MoodleDan # Powered by Twitter Tools
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@ MoodleDan Got me thinking about an # Android app for # Moodle Only one I could find: http://bit.ly/9Y0rpy doesn't work with our install. in reply to MoodleDan # I wonder if any of the student protesters could take lessons from Velvet Revolution of 21 year's ago? http://ow.ly/3bh2B # edchat # On "Strictly incompetent: pompous…
Read more →The day 2010-11-17 on @techczech
I wonder if any of the student protesters could take lessons from Velvet Revolution of 21 year's ago? http://ow.ly/3bh2B # edchat # Powered by Twitter Tools
Read more →The day 2010-11-15 on @techczech
On "Strictly incompetent: pompous garbage from Simon Heffer": "Consistency isn't quite enough to excuse grammar fascism." http://ow.ly/3acpX # On ignorance: "[It is the fact...] you know many things deeply and thoroughly that can prevent your learning." http://ow.ly/39Vn5 # edchat # Powered by Twitter Tools
Read more →The day 2010-11-13 on @techczech
Central v. Local control that old education see-saw: "Gove proposes direct management of state schools funding" http://ow.ly/39df7 # edchat # Powered by Twitter Tools
Read more →The day 2010-11-12 on @techczech
"women [in] sexist work-place [...can] bolster ties to other women or [distance themselves] from their feminine identity" http://ow.ly/383CS # Just pre-registered for UK Moodlemoot 2010: http://ow.ly/38MRB # mootuk11 # RT @ Anthropologies : Universities Reform, crisis and the absence of a language of protest: http://bit.ly/dCMdNo # RT @ hjarche : The myth of the inevitability…
Read more →The day 2010-11-11 on @techczech
@ andymee Try http://commons.acquia.com in reply to andymee # Love the title: RT @ langwitches : In session called "just more (technology)stuff or truly more education" at # fcis10 # Amazing to see how # Drupal site building has changed in the last year with Context and Features. See # drupalcommons 4 sample implementation. #…
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@ andymee Try http://commons.acquia.com in reply to andymee # Love the title: RT @ langwitches : In session called "just more (technology)stuff or truly more education" at # fcis10 # Amazing to see how # Drupal site building has changed in the last year with Context and Features. See # drupalcommons 4 sample implementation. #…
Read more →The day 2010-11-10 on @techczech
Love the # drupal Active Tags module presented at # drupal_ldn http://ow.ly/1rsWzB # Pronouncing it by the book http://ow.ly/1rt6BX < oh, how common this is, mostly harmless & comical but teachers should know better # engchat # I have no idea why I'm watching the Bowls: Scottish International Open sponsored by Co-operative Funeral Care http://ow.ly/37KJn…
Read more →The day 2010-11-09 on @techczech
About time: "the death of philosophy" http://ow.ly/36Rc1 # I.T. takes longer | BDA Employment and Dyslexia Handbook 2010 http://ow.ly/35qtn # dyslexia #edtech # Interesting research: "Implicit Puritanism in American Moral Cognition" http://ow.ly/36Ntm # Student just observed grammar wars in UK supermarkets: Tesco: "5 items of less" v Waitrose: "5 items or fewer" # engchat Cf…
Read more →The day 2010-11-08 on @techczech
The Innovative Educator: Apps for Innovative Educators with Androids http://ow.ly/35pwA # @ mweller re http://ow.ly/360Rt I know the feeling. Even worse in fields (linguistics!) where 95% of participants never heard of 'hashtag'! # Powered by Twitter Tools
Read more →The day 2010-11-07 on @techczech
RT @ KarinReichrath : Great metaphor: Social Media is like Learning How to Fish - http://bit.ly/bN5RqX by @ AskAaronlee # socialmedia # Must read blog/journal on language: "Word. The Online Journal on African American English" http://ow.ly/35G92 # Powered by Twitter Tools
Read more →The day 2010-11-06 on @techczech
"Strong Opinions, Weakly Held" http://ow.ly/35pBX < too many weak opinions, strongly held out there # "absolute certainty can be a liability when dealing with complex issues and problems." http://ow.ly/35pyo > "strong opions, weakly held" # Crucial TED talk on the importance of patterns in the brain over focus on neurons! http://ow.ly/35riP # @ google I…
Read more →The day 2010-11-05 on @techczech
Hilarious writeup of marine mammal moxy. Any blogger who calls dolphins 'assholes' has my tweet. http://ow.ly/359OT # I think the newly redesigned http://drupal.org may just be the best-designed project website ever. # drupal # Powered by Twitter Tools
Read more →The day 2010-11-04 on @techczech
What is Dyslexia: Free Webinar Starting in 30mins: http://j.mp/d9xhd3 # edchat # Attending talk on intervention for Pragmatic Language Impairment at Royal Holloway: http://www.psych-sci.manchester.ac.uk/scip # engchat # Do Freelancers Do Best on WordPress, Drupal or Joomla? http://ow.ly/1rof3r # Powered by Twitter Tools
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What is Dyslexia: Free Webinar Starting in 30mins: http://j.mp/d9xhd3 # edchat # Attending talk on intervention for Pragmatic Language Impairment at Royal Holloway: http://www.psych-sci.manchester.ac.uk/scip # engchat # Do Freelancers Do Best on WordPress, Drupal or Joomla? http://ow.ly/1rof3r # "What is Dyslexia?"-register for free webinar public lecture for Dyslexia Awareness Week http://j.mp/ct0Q1n # edchat #engchat #…
Read more →The day 2010-11-03 on @techczech
"What is Dyslexia?"-register for free webinar public lecture for Dyslexia Awareness Week http://j.mp/ct0Q1n # edchat #engchat # dyslexia # Powered by Twitter Tools
Read more →The day 2010-11-02 on @techczech
Learn your phonetics by heart... http://ow.ly/32ffK # engchat # "..no state legislature be allowed to require standards that they couldn't demonstrate proficiency on themselves" http://ow.ly/326lK # edchat # Why we should view all fearmongering on education with suspicion: http://ow.ly/330Tf # edchat # Powered by Twitter Tools
Read more →The day 2010-11-01 on @techczech
@ iusher that's the problem. Drop.io filled so many different needs at the same time # IT & Media Studies graduates worst hit by unemployment. Law, Geography, SportsScience least. What does this mean? http://ow.ly/32CJ0 # edchat # RT @ andymee : I say this every year but words can't express my utter hatred of Turnitin…
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