Terry’s Blog

Brahmanism: This is the sum of duty: Do naught unto others which would cause you pain if done to you.: Mahabharata 5:1517
Christianity: All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.: Matthew 7:12
Islam: No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother what [...]

A colleague at work drew my attention to this article, Web 2.0, published in November this year by Paul Graham. I have read a lot about Web 2.0 in recent months and have always been rather confused about what it is. I came to the conclusion it is something about working collaboratively on the Web [...]

Thus far: I think the idea of and the development of Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) by students, academics and researchers is the key to what I want to be involved with in the latter years of my career in HE as a teacher.
What is a PLE? How does it incorporate and/or sit on top of [...]

There are genuine issues of concern here for using Wikipedia in an academic context. I look at the articles I point to pretty carefully and, generally, I am in a good position to make a judgement. But the recommendation that students should use Wikipedia for research is much more problematic. How do others deal with [...]