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new links 05/08/2012

Guide to HTML5 Boilerplate for Rails Developers This is a guide to HTML5 Boilerplate for Rails developers. Like Rails on the server side or “backend”, HTML5 Boilerplate provides structure and conventions for setting up HTML5, CSS3 styles, and Javascript for … Continue reading

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new links 04/21/2012

Understanding The Password « family coding @codecademy comes to the rescue when my son’s e-mail account is hacked! http://t.co/bQD7uYne #codeyear tags: codeyear TEDxMuskegon — Maria Andersen — Recipe for Free Range Learning – YouTube Carve out 20 minutes and listen … Continue reading

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new links 03/03/2012

Beyond marks: new tools to visualise student engagement via social networks | Badge | Research in Learning Technology RT @hopkinsdavid: Reading @jobadge and @ajcann : “New tools to visualise student engagement via social networks” http://t.co/mfqGzooU Posted from Diigo. The rest … Continue reading

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Swansea Airshow 2011

Swansea Airshow 2011, a set on Flickr. A splendid photo opportunity! Beautiful weather, stunning displays, decent camera. What more could you ask for.

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Winter

StumpOriginally uploaded by Chris P Jobling Winter has come early this year. No snow yet in Swansea, but cold enough for frost.For more see Frost on Flickr, and listen to Dylan reading his poem A Winter’s Tail (curated by Poetictouch.com), which … Continue reading

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elearnspace › Will online lectures destroy universities?

Via OLdaily, November 2010.<br/> See this Amp at http://bit.ly/hj1COx <br/>

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Week 7 in PLENK2010

Week 7 in PLENK2010Originally uploaded by Chris P Jobling Week 7 of PLENK2010 is all about the tools. I subject about which I believe I actually have some expertise. Though the concept of the personal learning environment has been around … Continue reading

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amplifying @timeshighered: Coverage of "first twittering UK VC" Martin Hall’s speech from #altc2010

Report from Times Higher which covers recent announcements of Marc Prensky, due to speak in Bournemouth University next week, and Martin Hall, invited speaker at the ALT-C Conference this week. My summary … the “nouns are changing but the verbs … Continue reading

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ALT-C 2010: Donald Clark Keynote: Don’t lecture me – Cloudworks (#altc2010)

One advantage of not being at the ALT-C conference is that I can only attend the keynotes and invited speaker sessions on Eluminate. I therefore have a lot of time to watch the twitter stream and curate the links. Cloudworks … Continue reading

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BBC Micro brought back to life

Really liked this story that was a small item on Today’s Today programme. Students on A level computing course being let into The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park to programme the BBC micro (in BBC Basic) in order … Continue reading

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