Terry’s Blog

As Joan Vinall-Cox said in a recent communication “I think that actually hearing someone’s physical voice affects the way we “hear” their writing voice”. I thinks there is a lot in this. I know I have a much better notion of someone’s ‘telepresence’ if I can put a voice to their writing. This is not [...]

In a few weeks time I will be giving a presentation to PGs in my Faculty (UK meaning of ‘Faculty’, that is!) on wikis and blogs and the examples of PG student blogs I will be using have been successful and useful not least because guest commenting has contributed enormously to the discussion of ideas, [...]

We will shortly be finalising the pedagogical and technical specification for an institutional VLE. One possible outcome of our review will be that we put the specification out to tender. If this happens I imagine that large commercial providers will respond. The question is, how do we include or enable open source systems to take [...]

Exploring the use of blogs as learning spaces in the higher education sector by Jeremy B Williams (Universitas 21 Global) and Joanne Jacobs (Queensland University of Technology) in the Australasian Journal of Educational Technology 2004, 20(2), 232-247. PDF version.
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1. In addition to commenting on the advantages of using a tool that serves as [...]

Both Chris Sessums, Guidelines for Blogging, and Kele Fleming, Blogging Guidelines, have reported Anne Davis’s entry on her ‘Edublogs Insights’ Guidelines for blogging. Both Chris and Kele have emphasised the implications for writing reflectively in Anne’s guidelines, which is precisely what we want to encourage with our students. We want them to own and be [...]