It has been a while since I have written about the applications I am using in my day-to-day workflow. With it being the Easter break, I thought this was an excellent opportunity to rectify that. Today, I am going to focus on the apps that I am using on my MacBook Air and tomorrow I … Continue reading There’s an app for that… [OSX Edition]
Today, I delivered a presentation about #crit101 and Open Badges at University College London. Critical Skills 101 [#crit101] is an open online course that I have been running as a case study, seeking to answer my dissertation research question: To what extent can virtual courses support the development of independent learning beyond ‘real time’ curriculum delivery? The course … Continue reading #crit101 and Open Badges [UCL]
As mentioned in a previous post, today I am running a workshop on ‘Independent Learning’ at The Teaching, Learning and Assessment Conference in Berkhamsted. ‘Leashes not required’ – In(ter)dependent Learning Inside and Outside the Secondary School Classroom Spoon-feeding and teach-to-the-test culture seem to pervade the secondary school classroom, as teachers strive to meet increasingly demanding … Continue reading ‘Leashes not required’ – [#TLAB13]
This page feature links to all the presentations and workshops that I have delivered, including slides, speaker notes and related blog posts. *Presentations marked with an asterisk are written in HTML5 and CSS3. Hover over the thumbnails to view speaker notes and links (cmd/ctrl click to open in a new tab). Click on any of … Continue reading Presentations
After updating my blog and home page to be more responsive, I continued with a little fine-tuning. Here is a brief account of the additional changes I have made… Blog Typography I have added a Google font called ‘Bitter‘; I edited the sidebar CSS to make the font size and colour more consistent with the … Continue reading Responsive Part Two (Fine-Tuning)