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“Are we asking our students to collect dots or connect dots?” #edtech
In this TEDxYouth Talk, Seth Godin highlights eight things that will (need to) change in the Digital Age, including the nature of homework, memorising facts, and the end of compliance as an outcome....
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Managing your Digital Footprint
“Everything you say and do online can have an impact on your reputation. The Internet is a vast collection of details, and you might be surprised at just how much information on you can impact how you...
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Book Review: “Using Social Media in the Classroom” #edtech
I’m a Learning Technologist. Regular readers will know I have an interest in using, and understanding how we can use, Social Media and Social Networks with students and learning. It’s not just about...
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Using Social Media ‘safely’ #edtech
Using social media is easy. Using social media wisely is not quite so easy. Using social media safely is harder still. Being safe online is, or should be, easy. Being safe with what you share, and with...
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Video: Your Digital Impact via @sidneyeve
Following on from my own work on the impact of employability and (y)our online reputation (and the collaboration with Sue Beckingham in 2012) the following video will not come as a surprise. Sidneyeve...
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Your Digital Footprint, your future
I’ve spoken and written about social media and how we (ab)use it for personal and professional networks, and how it can take on a life of it’s own without any of us knowing about it. The best examples...
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Digital Identity: Who am I? (@simfin)
Last night I read the excellent post by Simon Finch – “Privacy is gone, live with it” – (@simfin) in which he considers the “complex and changing nature of identity, perception and consequences of...
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Your digital footprint, and how it can be used (against you)
OK, I knew most of this was possible anyway, but somehow it’s more scarey after watching this, where our digital footprint is explained and linked together … it’s not just browsing history, it’s how...
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Network Fluency (@jaycross)
Thanks to Jay Cross for this short and sweet 2 minute video on ‘Network Fluency’. With the Internet and the connections we make through it we have enabled ourselves and our learning to take a new...
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Online Branding for Academics
Every so often I’ll have a discussion with an academic around “this facebook thing” or “what’s the point of Twitter”. Each time it’s for a different reason or coming from a different perspective or...
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Where would I be without Twitter?
[Read this next bit as though it's a well known Sinead O'Conner song] It’s been 5 years, 30 days, and 53 minutes since my first tweet. Here is it: In that 5 years, 30 days, etc. I’ve made nearly 25,000...
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Create the digital image you want
Whether you use the term digital footprint or digital image social identity or online profile or some variant, there is much discussion on and around how we portray ourselves online, and how those who...
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‘Anyone who doesn’t love Twitter is an idiot’
These are not my words (although I may agree with them)! In February I wrote about my experience of Twitter and how it has changed the way I work, think, and look at myself – Where would I be without...
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Interview with Peter Reed, #EdTechBook chapter author
As part of a new series of posts, I will be talking to authors of The Really Useful #EdTechBook about their work, experiences, and contribution to the book. In this third post I talk to Peter Reed,...
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Day 1 #ALTC 2015
This 10th ALT Conference is possibly the largest yet, hosted at the Universty of Manchester, over 3 days with 4 invited keynote speakers, 185 sessions (although some look to have been cancelled), and...
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Your Digital Footprint, your future
I’ve spoken and written about social media and how we (ab)use it for personal and professional networks, and how it can take on a life of it’s own without any of us knowing about it. The best examples...
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Digital Identity: Who am I? (@simfin)
Last night I read the excellent post by Simon Finch – “Privacy is gone, live with it” – (@simfin) in which he considers the “complex and changing nature of identity, perception and consequences of...
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