Posts Tagged ‘www’

Link roundup: March

28, Mar 2010

Our World: Cracking Walls
The Iranian elections fast became a trending topic on Twitter last summer as Internet-savvy Iranians protested the inevitable re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad. This is the first documentary I’ve seen that looks at the impact the Internet is having in the Middle East. From the blurb: “BBC reporter Jiyar Gol travels across [...]

Accessibility in e-learning

30, Aug 2009

A recent US Department of Education report concluded that “on average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction”. In the New York Times analysis of the report, Steve Lohr said:
Until fairly recently, online education amounted to little more than electronic versions of the old-line correspondence courses. That has changed with [...]

New look

23, Aug 2009

Regular visitors will notice the site no longer looks as it did. I changed the theme out of necessity, as anyone who clicked on a tag from the cloud on the sidebar would only see the last three posts with that tag, with no option to see older posts. As a result, my older posts [...]

That’s bloody brilliant

25, Apr 2009

As I said in my very first post, a whole four posts ago,  I tend to ignore new, trendy web-based stuff until I’m clubbed over the head with it. On the off chance that there are other tech savvy Luddites out there, I thought I’d put together a collection of my latest discoveries in list [...]

Well, I’ve done it now…

13, Apr 2009

I suppose I’ve tried it two or three times since blogging became a craze a few years ago, but always with very little idea of why, and even less conviction to do a decent job of it. Recently, though, my involvement with Twitter has introduced me to a growing community of professionals interested in technology [...]


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