Insights

Owl Pellets

I am finishing off an article on e-learning and have been reviewing some e-learning material as, largely, displacement activity.  I cam across this virtual dissection site and got hooked on owl pellets! The site (Froguts.com) is used in thousands of schools, and single licences are now $30US per year which is very reasonable.  One of
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Leap Second

At midnight GMT an extra second was added to the old year in order to bring clock time into alignment with mean solar time.  Here are six suggestions about what you do with your extra second: 1.  Save over a lifetime till you have 30 seconds or more and spend them in one, big, extravagent
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BEST OF 2008

Here are my top five films. Astonishingly (and never before) three are British! Followed by top five novels and plays seen or read during 2008. In no particular order: Lust Caution Atonement Slumdog Millionaire It’s a Free World Burn After Reading The five best novels I have read: Restless by William Boyd Silent River by
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99 Things Meme

This is doing the rounds so I just joined in! Things you’ve already done: bold = 73Things you want to do: italicize = 6Things you haven’t done and don’t want to – leave in plain font = 20 1. Started your own blog.2. Slept under the stars.3. Played in a band.4. Visited Hawaii.5. Watched a
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Intelligent Email

It has got to come.  Who can cope with hundreds of undifferentiated emails that pile into your Inbox, particularly when your head is turned?  There are two types of email users according to Microsoft:  the Filers and the Pilers. The filers, create hundreds of folders and have their email routed into each folder or they
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Harvard and Second Life

Harvard University Law Professor Charles Nesson and his Havard Computer Science daughter Rebecca give a one hour talk on how they have used Second Life in external studies and credit Law Teaching.  It is a fascinating talk about the value of learning in groups in second life and the ability to simulate actual court room
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Looking Back over 2008

The Training Zone published a number of brief reviews of 2008. Mine is posted below. The link takes you to the other 8. Nigel Paine, L&D commentator The clichés pour out: what an amazing rollercoaster of a year? Who could have predicted at the beginning of the year where we would end up at the
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Go Home

Funnily I was talking to Dan about the new Playstation 3 virtual world called ‘Home’ today, and when I came home logged in, there was Gary Hayes pointing me to a 12 minute trip through it by Dave . Only released yesterday this is a very quick tour. At first sight it is impressive.  It
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The Future is Bright, the Future is Dim (dim)

Dimdim 4.5 is now out.  Dimdim is a web meeting host and is absolutely free for up to 20 participants.  The Pro version scales from $99 per year for up to 20 and $495 per year for up to 100 participants. It is much improved from the beta that I used at the beginning of
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How the Time Flies

I noticed with horror that it is some 13 days since my last post.  That is probably the longest ever!  Apologies.  I will do my bet not to let it happen again.  I was teaching on the CLO Doctoral Program at Wharton/GSE in the Univeristy of Pennsylvania. A fabulous week of debate and ideas.  And
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