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March 2010
- You're doing it wrong.
- Seven types of ambiguity and new literacies
- Wednesday Wisdom #10: Application and ability
- HOWTO: Create iTunes audiobooks from MP3s
- #uppingyourgame: an audio preview
- Things I Learned This Week - #10
- How I put together 'Things I Learned This Week' [visualization]
- Escaping the circus.
- Ten big questions for education
- Wednesday Wisdom #9: Life is a warfare against malice.
- Get that cool Google-style 'reveal' effect on your site.
- #getthatjob: now FREE
February 2010
- Things I learned this week - #9
- Exam performance of looked-after children in England [infographic]
- My favourite proverbs from around the world.
- How I organize my Ed.D. thesis
- Wednesday Wisdom #8: Excellence needs some polish
- Alternatives to Google
- #getthatjob: my guide to applying for teaching-related jobs
- Things I learned this week - #8
- Blog post popularity as a treemap [infographic]
- Modern procrastination and cycling trivialities.
- Meeting with Ed.D. thesis supervisor: digital literacy & ambiguity
- Wednesday Wisdom #7: Cultivate relationships
- iPhone apps I currently use.
- #uppingyourgame v0.3 now available!
- Things I learned this week - #7
- Google Buzz is not a Twitter-killer.
- Tenori-on, Little Boots and Melodica
- Some considerations regarding ebook readers for academics.
- Wednesday Wisdom #6: Avoid the faults of your nation.
- Some thoughts about online privacy.
- Finding your 'well' of productivity and motivation.
- Things I learned this week - #6
- Worldwide car colour popularity [infographic]
- Towards a fitter Doug.
- Initial thoughts on Digital Competence/Literacy/Flow
- Wednesday Wisdom #5: Avoid outshining your superiors
- A quick way to add a 'sparkline' to your blog.
- #uppingyourgame (v0.2) now ready!
January 2010
- Things I learned this week - #5
- A subtle redesign.
- Daniel Pink on motivation.
- Literacy -> Digital Flow: The Autotelic Self
- Wednesday Wisdom #4: Ruling your impulses
- Why I no longer wear a watch.
- A tribute to Dan Meyer.
- Things I learned this week - #4
- GCSE results by location/ethnicity [visualization]
- BumpTop: 'interesting' or genuinely useful?
- Literacy -> Digital Flow: Tetrads & Connectivism.
- Wednesday Wisdom #3: Arriving at completeness
- Learning Score
- #uppingyourgame: an educator's guide to productivity (v0.1)
- Things I learned this week - #3
- My visual resumé [infographic]
- NOT Friday Fun
- Literacy -> Digital Flow: digital epistemologies & ontology.
- Wednesday Wisdom #2: The value of novelty
- The new blog order.
- My favourite music of the 'noughties'.
- Things I learned this week - #2
- Off-site and cloud-based backup: my solution.
- Some Friday fun!
- Literacy -> Digital Flow: dialectic.
- Wednesday Wisdom #1: Character and intellect
- Feedback: why you read this blog.
- Mac OSX apps I currently use.
- Things I learned this week - #1
- Literacy -> Digital Flow: moving beyond Traditional Literacy.
- Commitments for 2010.
December 2009
- Read what I've read: 2009 edition.
- OpenBeta: a publishing model.
- Why do you read this blog?
- If I wrote a book, would you buy it?
- Merry Christmas!
- #blogsilike
- Twenty-nine.
- #movemeon book now available!
- Google: excellence and diversity?
- How I deal with email.
- Hyperlocality and iterating towards 2.0
- My digital reading workflow.
- A non-Luddite rebuttal of technology integration?
- Meeting with Ed.D. thesis supervisor: the roadmap for 2010.
- The evolution of communication.
- The future of my Ed.D. thesis.
- 'Information literacy': its history and problems.
- #eduhivefive (a suggestion).
- The history of 'new literacies'.
- Best of Belshaw (2009)
- Beyond Creative Commons: uncopyright.
- The problem with free stuff.
- E-safety: the 'googleability test' (a suggestion).
- #twitter365 (2009)
- The difference between visualizations and infographics.
- Social media, open standards & curmudgeonliness.
- On the glorious weirdness of connecting with people online.
- 10 things people like me want for Christmas.
- My #TMETRU09 presentation: #movemeon & CPD via Twitter
November 2009
- Research supporting collaborative, enquiry-based learning.
- Back to (theme) basics.
- A useful way to categorise educational technologies.
- Design the (e-)book cover for #movemeon!
- Affinity spaces, secondary orality & digital epistemologies.
- #movemeon - a suggestion.
- My first infographic competition.
- Infographics and my future.
- Learning and growing.
- 12 educational ways of using 12seconds.tv
October 2009
- Learning objectives: the importance of trigger verbs
- Ed.D. Thesis snapshot: towards a bedrock definition of literacy.
- How I mark students' books.
- Got a blog? Do this simple thing to boost your readership.
- The difference between 'crowdsourcing' and being lazy.
- Why Ewan McIntosh *was* (partly) wrong.
- Learning objectives: the basics
- It's energy that matters, not the hours you put in.
- How to restore a very large MySQL file without errors.
- What to do when your 'get up and go' has got up and left.
- On the importance of 'real-world learning'
- Where we're headed with the Academy's E-Learning ecosystem.
- Leadership by smiling.
- 3 ways Google Wave could be used in the classroom.
- A proposal to get more high-quality explanatory videos to learners.
- Embracing the future: why I've ditched MP3s and signed up to Spotify Premium
- Has Wordpress-powered P2 left me 'more organized and productive'?
- Who are you and where do you come from?
- Activity, Passivity and Failure.
- Sign up for TeachMeet ETRU edition 09!
- On the important difference between hitchhiking and bandwagon-jumping.
- Carol Dweck on 'growth mindsets' and motivation.
September 2009
- Assessment in UK schools: a convenient hypocrisy?
- How Wordpress-powered P2 is (hopefully) going to leave me more organized and productive!
- E-Learning Strategy Overview (a.k.a. my 3-year plan)
- My Google Apps Education Edition 'nano presentation' at TeachMeetSLF09
- 'So... what do you do?'
- What I learned about leadership from Seth Godin's 'Tribes'.
- elearnr posts now at dougbelshaw.com/blog
- Leadership by gesture.
- Heuristical Templates (or, how to review elearning stuff in a way that benefits others)
- A video introduction to using Google Calendar for timetables and meetings
- A Week of Divesting: Reflections
- A Week of Divesting: Blog design
- A Week of Divesting: Software
- A Week of Divesting: 'Analogue Time'
- A Week of Divesting: Domains [incl. a competition!]
- A Week of Divesting: Media
August 2009
- A Week of Divesting: an introduction
- Why I'm trying to make myself redundant.
- Join us for EdTechRoundUp 2009/10!
- Director of E-Learning: Doug Belshaw
- A Tale of Two Guest Houses (or, what are you offering your students this academic year?)
- Quit whinging and 'use the difficulty'!
- Why digital literacy != the 'aftermath' of literacy
- A (temporary) farewell to a hero.
- The story behind the new design of dougbelshaw.com
- My 'Edonis' interview with David Noble
- HOWTO: Tether an iPhone to a netbook running Jolicloud
- Meeting with Ed.D. thesis supervisor: 'aspirational naming,' hegemonic power and finishing early?
- Jolicloud: my first impressions of the 'cool new [social] OS for your netbook'
- The 8 C's of digital literacy
- Which is the best netbook operating system?
- Watch my Ed.D. thesis grow in real-time...
July 2009
- Using Joe's Goals to track and then improve your productive outputs.
- The importance of heuristics in educational technology and elearning.
- How to SPIN your way to giving more constructive negative feedback.
- The Big Move
- HOWTO: Present using Cooliris (advanced)
- Surviving the matrix: 5 common leadership pitfalls and how to avoid them.
- Leadership Day roundup
- Four ways to make your organization live long and prosper.
- Be more productive: take 'caffeine naps'.
- Pure gold nuggets from Shirky
- HOWTO: Present using Cooliris (the basics...)
- Raising achievement in History at KS4 using e-learning
- How to Lead: Being Professional
- How to Lead: Being Positive
- Daniel Goleman on Leadership and Emotional Intelligence
June 2009
- How to Lead: Focusing on People
- Thinking of changing this blog...
- Four ways to understand organizational change
- Are organizations like brains?
- Open Source Schools - Open Source Software: an overview
- Acceptable Use Agreements, Definitions & Digital Guidelines
- Acceptable Use Policy - feedback required!
- What I learned at TeachMeet North East 09
- Lord Bilimoria on leadership.
- Gill Rider on leadership.
- Colin Day on leadership.
- David Brandon on leadership.
- The future of education? My visit to RM's REAL Centre
- Meeting with Ed.D. thesis supervisor: the confusion around 'digital literacy'.
- Why governmental educational reforms fail.
- How to promote organizational innovation.
- One step ahead of the storm.
May 2009
- Like words in a letter sent, amplified by the distance.
- The 3 key elements of productivity.
- Stepping out of the stream.
- Digital Literacy and the 'Digital Society'
- My presentation @ TeachMeet Midlands 2009
- Why (educational) technology?
- Everything that's wrong with educational management, summed up in 3 Dilbert cartoons.
- Schools and the Procrustean Bed: are we really 'personalising' learning?
April 2009
- What are the 'functional specifications' of a VLE that drive real learning?
- Looking to the future of education: learning spaces and mobile devices
- HOWTO: Make yourself more visible online by building a Google Profile
- Telling a new story.
- Ignore everybody.
- Ed.D. thesis Literature Review: a start has been made!
- Conversations about (new) literacies
- The Big E-Learning Questions
March 2009
- How ‘microblogging’ sites such as Twitter can be used in education
- How E-Learning can contribute to raising achievement
- HOWTO: Present full-screen using Prezi and an Apple Remote [OSX]
- Flow and the Autotelic Classroom
- The six month slap-in-the-face for UK teachers
- Podcasting: a 3-step guide
- Alternative ways of presenting content and information to pupils
February 2009
- "You can tell a lot about someone from what they're like."
- The evolution of EdTechRoundUp
- Ways to find great resources and ideas for lessons
- Quasi-motivational posters
- Under-promise and Over-deliver: the language of productivity.
- Open Source Schools curriculum meeting
- Why 'digital literacy' is central to 21st century education.
- Digital things upon which I *do* and *would* spend real cash.
- Meeting with Ed.D. thesis supervisor: the way ahead
- The Problem with Promotion
- Dilbert on 'learner voice'
- Podcasting: Step 3 - Converting and uploading your podcast ready for the masses!
- Interesting ways to use Twitter in the classroom
- My Ed.D. thesis concept map on 'Digital Literacy'
- New music section at dougbelshaw.com
- 'Following' me on Twitter? These people are!
January 2009
- HOWTO: Add an RSS feed to Google Sites
- 'Flow' and the waste of free time
- Podcasting: Step 2 - Recording and editing your podcast
- My Computing History
- Hannon: 'Reflecting on Literacy in Education'
- Podcasting: Step 1 - RSS and setting up a teacher blog
- Safeguarding: the next step in the transition to Web 3.0?
- BETT 2009, TeachMeet & and iPhone misfortunes
- What if....?
- BETT 2009 and EdTechRoundup
- The Third Conversation
- Gunther Kress on Literacy
- The problem(s) of 21st century literacy/ies
- 7 Things You May Not Know About Me
December 2008
- Top 25: The Best of Belshaw 2008
- Merry Christmas!
- I'm 28, I'm not *old*...
- My response to the GTC's proposed 'code of conduct' for teachers in England.
- Productivity: the problem for me, summed up in two images.
- SEN Department E-Learning Session
- elearnr: what have I been up to?
- 5 interesting web applications to mess around with when you're bored over Christmas!
- Wanna buy my Macbook?
- Productivity, Organization & #tweetmeet
- 3 reasons I'm against the Edublog Awards
- The Simpsons 'do' Apple...
- Beyond boring Powerpoint presentations.
- The very best of teaching.mrbelshaw.co.uk
November 2008
- Interesting Ways to use Netbooks in the Classroom
- Finally! a video that explains what I'm aiming for as a teacher.
- How to use Google Earth more effectively.
- Functionally and aesthetically-speaking: Asus Eee 1000 vs. Advent 4211
- Glogs - create interactive and rich media web pages quickly and easily!
- Forms of Literacy
- First photos with my new Canon 1000D digital SLR
- 'Literacy'
- Take your computer with you with PortableApps!
- The Vortex of Uncompetence
- Getting to grips with the school email system
- More on Teaching as a Subversive Activity
October 2008
- Living offline
- Using del.icio.us to synchronise bookmarks & find new, exciting stuff
- What does it take to build a community?
- 3 ways to prevent being 'unfollowed' on Twitter
- Digital Permanence: Death & Data
- Why we should adopt the OA5 system in education
- Give your students a voice with VoiceThread
- My Ed.D. thesis: introduction and a ?
- How to create engaging video starters without any creative talent using Animoto
- What to do when you can't be RSSed...
- Digital Literacy, Pragmatism and the Social Construction of Reality
- Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour.
September 2008
- Politics: the biggest problem in education
- Teacher as Game Show Host?
- Good teaching is good teaching.
- Never lose a document again: how Google Docs can change the way you and your department work!
- Doug's first world tour!
- Blue Skies Thinking vs. Grey Skies Thinking
- 4 reasons you should jailbreak your iPhone 3G
- Creating a homework blog in 3 simple steps using email
- I'll tell you this for free...
- Librarian blogs and social networks
- Good ideas, sheep and wolves.
- How to find and download YouTube videos for use in the classroom
- Dilbert on 'best practice'
- Some questions about teaching
- 10 ways to use your interactive whiteboard more effectively
- 10 ways to make your working day more productive
- My way or the highway.
August 2008
- Class spreadsheet for teachers
- How to use your interactive whiteboard more effectively
- Why as an educator you should care about Open Source Software
- 5 ways my teaching will change because of today's GCSE results.
- Posterous
- 90% digital, or 12 ways my teaching ecosystem is evolving.
- Buddha knows best, or why 'digital literacy' is so hard to pin down.
- elearnr - new blog for a new role!
- Twitter Fantasy Football
- Welcome!
- The feature that will make Posterous better than Edublogs is...
- 4 quotations that will guide me next academic year
- 3 reasons I returned my iPhone 3G
July 2008
- My life in the next couple of weeks...
- edte.ch barnraising: get involved in forming a community!
- My new Digital Literacies codex
- Synaesthesia, migraines and creativity
- Help me fill in the gaps.
- 5 productivity tips/hacks I've come across recently.
- Knowledge vs Experience
- 'In The Night Garden' as a communist utopia
- I am Spart-arthus!
- I need YOUR help with the future of edte.ch
- The Never-ending (Gadget) Story... the Advent 4211
- Skype Captain and the World of Tomorrow
- An invitation to a conversation...
June 2008
- Social Fabric
- Doug lives in rural isolation thanks to the Internet
- I want educational technology to be boring.
- 2 Amazing Firefox plugins: Stylish & Feedly
- Censorship and the Personal/Professional divide
- Introducing TweetMeet
- The stream becomes a trickle...
- "Toto, I have a feeling we are not in Kansas anymore!" (or, How to get started in the Edublogosphere...)
- Posts imported from edte.ch
- I'm a published author!
- Gym'll Fix It!
- Help me write my job spec. for next year!
- AUP 2.0
May 2008
- Are you an 'Edupunk'? I'm not.
- Porn in every school? or Why filtering will soon be irrelevant.
- I've sold my Asus Eee 4G. What now?
- Into the Wild world of Hitler and Attachment Theory.
- The most amazing thing you'll see on the Internet this year!
- Serendipity, living in an echo chamber, and Learning to Change.
- Some web-hosting advice, please...
- How I got started... and the difference it's made.
- EdTechRoundup 5 - group discussion on VLEs and GLOW
- What is a VLE?
- My Ed.D. thesis proposal: What does it mean to be 'digitally literate'?
- dougbelshaw.com redesign
- Creating an Interactive Whiteboard using a Nintendo WiiMote
- That's my boy!
- Mobile-phone based interactive whiteboards using WiiMotes?
- History KS3 Programme of Study for QCA 2008 orders
- Are you Alice, Dilbert, or the Boss?
- Towards a forward-thinking Acceptable Use Policy for mobile devices
- EdTechRoundup 4 featuring, erm, me again...
- Holiday in North Yorkshire
April 2008
- Questions about the future of education
- (Almost) everything you need to know about the 14-19 changes
- The Working Classes
- I'm going to miss this...
- We have a winner!
- What is 'digital literacy'? It's certainly not this...
- Animoto now free for educators
- Meme machine
- Is a degree enough?
- Competition: win a Macvatar Macbook skin!
- Educational Technology Integration Matrix
- 10 'Home Truths' about Schooling and Education
- On having a space to myself
- Things I've been reading online recently
- A cluttered desk is a sign of genius.
- The saddest picture in the world...
- I've started using Twitter with my pupils...
- Use Your Head.
- Seminal blog posts
- April Fools Day, Google-style...
March 2008
- Wixi: a bizarre yet useful free file-sharing / web-desktop hybrid
- Is Twitter bad for you?
- The Map Is Not The Territory: the changing face of the edublogosphere
- Timelines.tv points the way to the future of learning History
- New Asus eee user? Read this!
- A DVD-ripping guide for educators: Part 2
- Eee-aye, eee-aye, eee-aye... oh.
- A DVD-ripping guide for educators: Part 1
- EdTechRoundup 3 featuring Yours Truly
- A win at last!
- AppleTV? Pah!
- Recommend me 3
- We've sold!
- Google Apps proposal
- Better off because of Budget?
- Is handwriting dead?
- Sync any type of video (DivX, Xvid, etc.) with an AppleTV
- 4 blogs that enhance my productivity
- edte.ch Monthly Roundup (February 2008)
- Edmodo: Twitter for education?
- 15 days of Google answers
February 2008
- Google Sites - wikis for Google Apps users!
- (Google) Talk to me!
- Classroom organization and its relation to pedagogy
- 3 'well, duh' BBC Education articles
- Don't miss Stephen Fry's blog and podcast
- Windows Live SkyDrive
- THIS is how technology can enhance learning
- Ken Robinson on creativity v2
- More on mobile phone projectors
- Be notified of follow-up comments
- Why 'high culture' for pupils is highly wrong-headed
- 3 strikes and then out for UK 'illegal' downloaders?
- Benjamin Belshaw's 1st Year
- Hacking an AppleTV v1.1
- How to turn your Nokia phone into a wireless hotspot
- Using Google mobile apps in schools
- EdTechRoundup: Episode 2
- Animoto rocks! Here's proof...
- Wordpress customization
- Asus unveil new Eee PC's
- 3 reasons the majority of students are NOT 'digitally literate'
January 2008
- Context is everything
- Schools SHOULD be small!
- House up for sale
- Pimp your 5g iPod Video to look like an iPod Touch
- 5 things School of Rock can teach us about real education
- Page Peel Script
- Google Apps in China? A response for EdTechRoundup
- 7 ways to improve your productivity as a teacher
- 5 ways to make 'textbook lessons' more interesting
- EdTechRoundup needs your help with Google Apps UK!
- Ben can almost walk!
- RM Asus Minibook
- EdTechRoundup podcasts are go!
- Skribit: Suggest topics for me to blog about
- Mac OSX: changing spots back to stripes
- Emotional truancy
- New header image
- Why schools should exclusively use free software
- Reflections on BETT 2008
- edte.ch @ BETT 2008
- I don't like paper
- BETT 2008
- My Seminar at BETT
- Hi, my name's Doug Belshaw...
- Mobile phone projectors? Now we're talking...
- Paul Stamatiou: the most productive person I (virtually) know
- Ed.D. Thesis Proposal (almost there!)
- How to upgrade your Nokia N95 to v12.x firmware and make it a whole lot better
December 2007
- Read what I've read: my books of 2007
- 'I Am Legend' has it all
- No place for 'gadgets' in the classroom?
- Lost my contacts
- Ed.D. blog moves home
- Paradigms within research methodology
- Why's everyone using Pownce?
- Facebook in the future?
- More on Research Methodologies
- Research Methodologies
November 2007
- Hakia: web search with meaning
- Guide: using Google Apps for Education
- Zoho writer now available in offline mode
- Birmingham Leading Edge INSET
- Google Presentations now with custom backgrounds
- edte.ch workshop now open!
- More on RFID tags in education
- Busy, busy, busy...
- Sub-$200 PC... and not the OLPC project!
- The obligatory iPhone in education post
- RFID in school uniforms
- Ning now ad-free for educators!
October 2007
- Numeracy improvements thanks to the good doctor
- How educational technology should change
- Becta warns UK schools off Microsoft
- New layout and theme at edte.ch
- Phew! So it's not ADHD...
- Linux on all computers in Russian schools by 2009
- PVR comparison and roundup
- The Online Office space hots up
- In these we trust: 5 basic edtech tools every teacher should have in their toolbox
September 2007
- Ben crawling!
- Now THIS irritates me...
- A day in the library at the University of Durham
- Wikispaces now has widgets
- Google Docs made simple
- Amazon MP3 launches, not for UK
- Google Presentations now live!
- OLPC laptops about pedagogy, not price
- Freebase, oSkope visual search and our relationship to knowledge
- Hannah's new car
- Moodle the most popular VLE?
- Argument for thesis proposal
- Howto: host multiple websites using one web hosting account
- Google wikis soon?
August 2007
- New edte.ch logo
- Google Warehouse Model Viewer
- Zoho Creator - web forms made easy!
- Did You Know? 2.0 UK version - it exists!
- Google Phone
- SMART Notebook interactive viewer
- IT managers should not dictate pedagogy
- Information Literacy
- Freebase: a useful companion to Wikipedia
- Did You Know? 2.0 - UK version?
- To-do v2
- Yahoo! Teachers social network
- Two new Google Earth features
- Twitter even closer to the perfect professional development tool
- Zoho Writer becomes more useful for students
- Welcome to edte.ch!
- The cinema? Pah!
- Change of supervisor
- Ilana Snyder
- Never again...
- Back on the thesis proposal trail...
- Unexpected problems
- Business as usual - well, not quite…
- Expect some downtime
- Perfect Promos
- 8 Random Facts Meme
- Laura & Sean's wedding
- Zonbu now available
- CommentPress
July 2007
- e-learning 2.0: All You Need To Know
- Great Ideas
- Demotivational posters
- Using Google tools for student projects
- Deki: Wiki 3.0?
- HOWTO: Nintendo DS & Orange Livebox
- Comments now working again...
- 3D searching with SpaceTime
- EdTechTalk
- Digital students
- Live Ink: an example of the benefits of digital text
- Definitions of digital literacy' from the book of the same name by Paul Gilster
- Meeting with Ed.D. supervisor - 24 July 2007
- $100 laptop nears production
- National Christian Football Festival 2007
- My favourite lolcats
- Google Docs keeps getting better…
- Edit and merge PDFs for free
- Soundsnap: podcast-safe and free!
- How to get a GPS fix quicker on the Nokia N95
- NESTA 'Hidden Innovation' report
- The problems with Human Rights legislation
- Gelato: Wordpress for tumblelogs?
- Virtual Desktops: an update
- Twitter Screensaver
- Picasa Mobile
- Feedburner Pro now free
- TwitterGram
- Great annotated Web 2.0 links
June 2007
- Sausage Roll
- Heavens open, schools shut
- Free and Open Source educational Mac software
- Google Docs update
- Apple iPhone vs Nokia N95
- OpenSUSE to compete with Edubuntu
- Facebook vs. MySpace
- Death by Powerpoint
- Web 2.0 Backpack
- HOWTO: fix your Xbox after messing about with the EEPROM
- Ed.D. thesis proposal failure
- YouTube Remixer
- Getting GPS working for Nokia Sports Tracker on the N95
- Visit to London village
- Google Powerpoint support
- RSS Toolbox
- Minor update to blog design
- How NOT to upgrade your Xbox
- GMail for universities
- Google Custom Search updated
- The end of power cables?
- Pageflakes Student Edition
- Philosophy
- Podcast directory
May 2007
- Nokia N95 tips, reviews and software all in one place
- Microsoft Surface: imagine the edtech possibilities!
- Google Street View
- My first GPS-tracked run
- The 3 quotations I live by
- Zonbu: the linux-based school computer of the future?
- coRank: make your own edtech Digg clone
- Google Calendar now mobile
- Coursework 2.0
- Nokia N95: the solution to problems I didn't even know I had...
- MindMeister
- Virtual Desktops: really useful when teaching!
- Book review: Wittgenstein's Poker
April 2007
- Mojiti
- Ben in his bouncer (video)
- Wordpress Theme Generator
- More photos of Ben
- iQuiz: learning games on an iPod
- Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
- Offline Wikipedia
- Ed.D. thesis proposal bibliography
- Ed.D. thesis proposal finished!
- Lenovo 3000 N100 and Windows Vista
- Google Spreadsheets now with chart capabilities
- 21Classes
- HOWTO: Collaborate Online
- Pay Attention: your students are Digital
- RoboBraille
- Geekifying my run
- Thesis proposal mindmap
- References to follow up - 2/3 April 2007
March 2007
- Office 2.0 Database
- CommentPress
- TeacherTube
- Tumblr - a great way to get your students (and colleagues?) blogging!
- Schoolr: useful search engine
- Happy Mother's Day Hannah!
- Wordpress Plugin Repository v2
- Jersey job and the return of the Mac
- Picasa Web Albums vs. Flickr
- The Curse of Our Society
- Scribd: YouTube for documents
- Technology in exams?
- Return of the Mac
- Ralph Wiggum: boy genius
- Introductory quotation
- Another definition of literacy
- References to follow up - 3/3/07
- 21st Century Literacy
February 2007
- Firefox Extension: Tab Groups
- Voice chat for Second Life
- xFruits - the Swiss Army knife for RSS feeds
- Steve Jobs outlines his vision of a textbook-free future
- More people reading my teaching blog than I thought...
- Writing tips from George Orwell
- 1 million OLPC laptops already on order!
- Intelligence vs. Wisdom
- Macbook vs. my new laptop? No contest...
- The BBC are Twittering
- Sidekiq: all your search belong to us
- Macbook woes
- My (finely crafted) information environment
- GMail now available to everyone!
- Picnick: photo editing on the web
- Photoshopped animals
- PSPs as learning tools
January 2007
- DVD Flick - burn any video file to DVD!
- Ed.D. Thesis Proposal, v2
- Open Word documents through Google Docs in GMail
- Google Book Search now includes Google Maps
- The Half-Life of Knowledge and Structural Reform of the Education Sector for the Global Knowledge-Based Economy
- Run Doug run
- OpenDNS
- bubbl.us
- Easy conditional formatting in Excel
- Hannah and Ben back home
- BBC plans online children’s world
- Flickr slideshow of Benjamin Daniel Jonathan Belshaw
- Wordpress 2.1 “Ella” released
- RSS feeds = homework?
- Human-computer interfaces of the future
- Kinaesthetic Data
- Pre-release review of the LG Shine (KE970)
- The threat of mobile technology
- References from 'Breaking Down the Digital Walls'
- Edublogosphere survey results
- Learnscaping
- Is Podcasting the new Powerpoint?
- How computer games help children learn
- EDUCAUSE articles
- Stacks of Books vs. a Search-Engine Culture
- Too much technology in the classroom?
- Top Firefox 2 extensions for educators?
- Wikiseek
- Welcome!
- Articles on technology and the future of education
- References from ‘Schools and the Changing World’
- References from 'Reclaiming Knowledge'
- Systematicity
- References to follow up from today's reading
- References from 'Knowing Knowledge'
- Open Thinking & Alec Couros' PhD dissertation
- Expanded thesis proposal outline
- Knowledge Jolt with Jack
- Resources r.e. Dan Pink & 'A Whole New Mind'
- Knowledge Management & Networks
- Links to training sites/blogs from Jim Belshaw
December 2006
- Ed.D. Thesis Proposal Outline (expanded)
- Some ideas about the structure of my thesis proposal essay
- What does literacy look like in the 21st century?
- 21st Century Skills: not just about ICT
- The Pressure for Knowledge to Change
- Property, 21st Century Knowledge, and Creative Commons
- Connectivism
- Groups vs. Networks
- Knowledge Management in Education
- Email to Gareth Mills (QCA)
- The purpose of education? It isn’t this…
- Where do educational ideas originate? A digital paper trail…
- Findings from the Teaching, Learning, and Computing Survey: Is Larry Cuban Right?
November 2006
October 2006
- The Community as the Text
- Managing Organizational Change - diagram
- Chris Sessums - ICT and the ‘locus of control’
- Papert on Why School Reform is Impossible
September 2006
- Ed.D. Thesis Proposal Outline
- The difference between groups and networks
- Some great quotations about education in the 21st century (and in general)
- Learning Teacher Network - 10 recommendations for the future of teaching
