From 2005-2007 I blogged about education at teaching.mrbelshaw.co.uk, writing here only occasionally. Upon transferring to this blog in January 2008 I imported some of the posts from my teaching blog as well as one I’d set up to chart the progress of my Ed.D.
July 2006 ( View complete archive page )
September 2006 ( View complete archive page )
October 2006 ( View complete archive page )
November 2006 ( View complete archive page )
December 2006 ( View complete archive page )
- 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?
January 2007 ( View complete archive page )
- 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
February 2007 ( View complete archive page )
- 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
March 2007 ( View complete archive page )
- 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
April 2007 ( View complete archive page )
- 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
May 2007 ( View complete archive page )
- 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
June 2007 ( View complete archive page )
- 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
July 2007 ( View complete archive page )
- 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
August 2007 ( View complete archive page )
- 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
September 2007 ( View complete archive page )
- 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?
October 2007 ( View complete archive page )
- 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
November 2007 ( View complete archive page )
- 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!
December 2007 ( View complete archive page )
January 2008 ( View complete archive page )
- 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
February 2008 ( View complete archive page )
- 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'
March 2008 ( View complete archive page )
- 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
April 2008 ( View complete archive page )
- 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...
May 2008 ( View complete archive page )
- 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
June 2008 ( View complete archive page )
- 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
July 2008 ( View complete archive page )
- 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...
August 2008 ( View complete archive page )
- 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
September 2008 ( View complete archive page )
- 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.
October 2008 ( View complete archive page )
- 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.
November 2008 ( View complete archive page )
- 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
December 2008 ( View complete archive page )
- 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
January 2009 ( View complete archive page )
- 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
February 2009 ( View complete archive page )
- "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!
March 2009 ( View complete archive page )
- 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
April 2009 ( View complete archive page )
- 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
May 2009 ( View complete archive page )
- 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?
June 2009 ( View complete archive page )
- 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.
July 2009 ( View complete archive page )
- 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
August 2009 ( View complete archive page )
- 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...
September 2009 ( View complete archive page )
- 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
October 2009 ( View complete archive page )
- 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.
November 2009 ( View complete archive page )
- 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
December 2009 ( View complete archive page )
- 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
January 2010 ( View complete archive page )
- 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.
February 2010 ( View complete archive page )
- 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!
March 2010 ( View complete archive page )
- Wednesday Wisdom #13: Erudition
- Learning Score, a lesson-planning tool. [Review]
- How to be overwhelmingly positive (even when you don't feel like it)
- Things I Learned This Week - #13
- #newleaders is #movemeon for... guess who?
- What I learned about education whilst in the UAE
- A partial review of 'The Hyperlinked Society'
- Wednesday Wisdom #12: Things have their period
- How to move forward with Open Source: a teacher's perspective
- How to 'chapter' your life to make it more productive.
- Things I Learned This Week - #12
- LastHistory: a great way to generate Last.fm visualizations
- Hello? Is it me you're looking for?
- The ambiguity of new literacies [mindmap]
- Wednesday Wisdom #11: Exaggerated expectations
- Technology in History teaching: disseminating good practice in Turkey
- #uppingyourgame v0.4 now available!
- Things I Learned This Week - #11
- A brief history of infographics.
- 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
April 2010 ( View complete archive page )
- Roadbud: a new iPhone app for runners [Review]
- Meeting with Ed.D. thesis supervisor: my first journal article.
- Wednesday Wisdom #17: Prize intensity.
- 3 online tools I'm using to increase my work-related productivity
- 7 things the Bible taught me about productivity.
- Things I Learned This Week - #17
- My resumé as a London Underground map.
- 10 things I've learned since starting work for JISC
- Using a Sony Reader PRS-600 to make notes on academic articles.
- Wednesday Wisdom #16: Thumbscrews
- The first new media election?
- My interview on Productivity for educators
- Things I Learned This Week - #16
- Recommended Design-related blogs
- If I were trapped on a Desert Island...
- Why I bought a Sony Reader ebook reader today.
- Wednesday Wisdom #15: Credulity
- Why I'm using iPREDator now the Digital Economy Bill has been passed
- HOWTO: Productively hack your workday.
- Things I Learned This Week - #15
- Leadership by Design.
- The ultra-paranoid guide to ensuring you've got your presentation slides.
- HOWTO: Set up Google Scholar to do the heavy lifting for you.
- Wednesday Wisdom #14: Imagination
- Some reflections on the organization of #BectaX
- #uppingyourgame v0.5 now available!
- Things I Learned This Week - #14
- Education is easy - in theory! [visualization]
- Music I'm running to at the moment,
- The end of the beginning.
May 2010 ( View complete archive page )
- The 3 biggest productivity-killers.
- Things I Learned This Week - #22
- Weeknote #3
- Shut happens.
- My bMoble TeachMeet presentation
- Twitter is not the best CPD you've ever received.
- 5 reasons I'm using less and less Open Source stuff.
- Establishing your productivity 'endgame'
- Things I Learned This Week - #21
- Weeknote #2
- Battery life: iPhone 3GS vs Google Nexus One vs HTC Desire
- The Hyperlinked Society [Full Review]
- Wednesday Wisdom #20: Disreputable occupations.
- Why Open Source should be more like Fairtrade.
- How to find your 'productive song'.
- Things I Learned This Week - #20
- Weeknote #1
- Design and the 5 Golden Rules of Technology purchases.
- What's the most common type of ambiguity in definitions of 'digital literacy'?
- Wednesday Wisdom #19: Be a person of integrity
- How to use Netvibes as a project management hub.
- Surviving to thriving: 10 steps to ensure you remain productive after a rough night.
- Things I Learned This Week - #19
- Why we need Proportional Representation [infographic]
- A short note on syndication
- Why the European view of 'digital literacy' is ambiguous.
- Wednesday Wisdom #18: Be common in nothing.
- Google Wave: now with added usefulness.
- Calling myself into the office: May 2010
- Things I Learned This Week - #18
- Innovation: where it's at.
June 2010 ( View complete archive page )
- Are we doing young people a disservice?
- Why do we use technology?
- 5 steps to making other people more productive.
- Things I Learned This Week - #26
- Weeknote #7
- How to design the ultimate presentation.
- Wabi-sabi, Mono no aware & creative ambiguity
- Open Educational Resources infoKit
- Hands-on with the Dell Streak.
- 5 ways Google Calendar is turning into my ultimate productivity system.
- Things I Learned This Week - #25
- Weeknote #6
- Designing for Creative Ambiguity
- HOWTO: Google Scholar email alerts
- Moving beyond '21st century skills'
- ...and 5 reasons why I bought a Dell Streak again.
- Productivity: choose your friction.
- Things I Learned This Week - #24
- Weeknote #5
- 10 reasons I returned my Dell Streak today.
- Freire, Conscientization & Digital Literacy
- Apply for Google Teacher Academy UK!
- (In)decisive Doug, the Dell Streak and iPhone 4.
- Calling myself into the office: June 2010
- Things I Learned This Week - #23
- Weeknote #4
- The post-Becta, QCDA and GTCE future.
- Digital literacy: a function of poor design?
- 5 genuinely useful Twitter tools.
- The future of mobile is open and smart.
July 2010 ( View complete archive page )
- 3 ways to influence people.
- The sublime and the ridiculous.
- Weeknote #12
- Google Earth for #GTAUK
- Google Apps (Education Edition) vs. Microsoft Live@Edu
- Things I Learned This Week - #30
- Weeknote #11
- One week until #GTAUK
- 3 things I need to maintain my productivity.
- Motivation comes from within.
- Intention vs. Effect
- You are what you habitually do.
- Is it time to get rid of secondary schools?
- Productivity: value your time
- The importance of domain knowledge
- Things I Learned This Week - #29
- Weeknote #10
- #onfire: ignite your productivity [free ebook - please RT!]
- Flying without wings
- 4 solutions to office-based productivity-sappers.
- Highest common denominator.
- Recontextualization.
- Things I Learned This Week - #28
- Weeknote #9
- On Minimalism.
- Academic reading on the Amazon Kindle
- #GTAUK: Google Earth wiki & ebook
- A life in my technological day.
- Calling myself into the office: July 2010
- Things I Learned This Week - #27
- Weeknote #8
- HOWTO: Go Camping (according to my Twitter network)
- TeachMeet SHP Edition 2010
August 2010 ( View complete archive page )
- Methodology for Pragmatists
- UX: 5 valuable resources
- Things I Learned This Week - #35
- Weeknote #16
- Let me tell you what I think 'this' is.
- I sync therefore I am.
- Embedding a live Twitter search in Keynote 09
- Innovation, productivity and frames of reference
- Things I Learned This Week - #34
- Weeknote #15
- What's this?
- #runningtunes
- Education Eye: an RSS reader for those who don't feed-read...
- 10 things I learned from 'Why Don't Students Like School?'
- I am not a person who teaches.
- 5 characteristics of successful organisations
- Things I Learned This Week - #33
- Weeknote #14
- 5 reasons to avoid seeing 'The Expendables'
- New metaphors and symbols required!
- Google Apps Marketplace: apps worth installing
- Productivity: don't break the chain!
- Things I Learned This Week - #32
- Write lots? Buy this.
- Weeknote #13
- Why my wife should be happy with her adopted surname.
- Why I'm not the Wizard of Oz
- The freeze-thaw method of technology integration.
- Google Knol: the future of academic journals?
- Calling myself into the office: August 2010
- Experience, skill, and user experience.
- Things I Learned This Week - #31
September 2010 ( View complete archive page )
- Things I Learned This Month - September 2010
- 3 reasons teachers should smile
- Doug on Productivity - Episode 1
- Things I Learned This Week - #39
- 3 things I've learned in my 11 years as a student in Higher Education.
- Weeknote #20
- Why parents don't engage with schools
- 5 things it's currently fashionable to say (without much evidence)
- 3 things common to most successful people
- Why I've turned off GMail Priority Inbox
- What goes into my conference bag?
- Is now a good time to get an iPad?
- Creativity: confusing inputs with outputs.
- Things I Learned This Week - #38
- Weeknote #19
- HOWTO: Use Evernote to take notes on books.
- Pragmatism, dead metaphors & the myth of the echo chamber.
- How is as important as why.
- Things I Learned This Week - #37
- Weeknote #18
- A response to Donald Clark's #altc2010 keynote
- #uppingyourpresentation
- The 3 most important things I learned at ALT-C 2010
- 5 things I can do with my Kindle that you can't with your dead-tree books.
- Free schools: the good, the bad and the ugly.
- Your anti-ebook rhetoric is like a broken record.
- Things I Learned This Week - #36
- Weeknote #17
- 10 reasons I like reading ebooks more than paper books.
- Greplin: potential solver of a huge problem?
- Go to conferences? Use Lanyrd.
October 2010 ( View complete archive page )
- Why we don't celebrate Hallowe'en in our house
- Things I Learned This Week - #44
- Weeknote #25
- Top 10 Links I Shared This Week - #4
- A story of three requests.
- Too many bricks, not enough mortar.
- Doug on Productivity - Episode 5
- Things I Learned This Week - #43
- Weeknote #24
- Top 10 Links I Shared This Week - #3
- Edtech companies: inspiring or conspiring?
- Meeting with Ed.D. thesis supervisor: restructuring
- Doug on Productivity - Episode 4
- Notifo: a notifications inbox
- Ed.D. thesis restructure
- Things I Learned This Week - #42
- Weeknote #23
- Top 10 Links I Shared This Week - #2
- Got 5 seconds? Help with the redesign of this blog!
- Doug on Productivity - Episode 3
- Things I Learned This Week - #41
- How not to write a thesis.
- Weeknote #22
- Glowing first review of #uppingyourgame!
- My 5 favourite non-fiction books
- Mr. Men on the opposite of productivity
- Doug on Productivity - Episode 2
- Performativity, fetishism & the aristocracy of everyone.
- Things I Learned This Week - #40
- Weeknote #21
- 10 Things I Shared This Week - #1
- #uppingyourgame: finished and now on sale!
November 2010 ( View complete archive page )
- JISC Mobile and Wireless Technologies Review
- Dell Latitude 2110: a review.
- Things I Learned This Week - #48
- Weeknote #29
- Blogging: 5 things I've learned in 5 years.
- What I Talk About When I Talk About 'User Outcomes': #1 - Douglas Adams, Feng Shui & controlling behaviours.
- Things I Learned This Week - #47
- Weeknote #28
- HOWTO: Roll your own #twebay
- 5 ways Twitter could revolutionize education.
- You don't 'build' better teachers.
- Things I Learned This Week - #46
- Weeknote #27
- The one thing I never want my son to say again.
- Media Literacy: the biggest enemy of UK 'digital literacy' initiatives?
- User outcomes: bona fides.
- #amazonfail: a perspective
- Do you remember the first time?
- The Mobile Learning Edge: Tools and Technologies for Developing Your Teams [Review]
- Types of relationship and communities of 'ought'.
- Things I Learned This Week - #45
- Weeknote #26
- 'So... what do you do?' (v2)
- Top 10 Links I Shared This Week - #5
- The best blog posts I've ever written, by category.
- Things I'm Thinking About
- Use is not strategy.
- Major blog redesign.
- Digging deeper: some considerations for blog design.
December 2010 ( View complete archive page )
- Belshaw Black Ops.
- My most 'engaging' posts of 2010
- Creative Ambiguity and Digital Literacy
- Things I Learned This Week #50
- Weeknote #30
- [INCOMING] Personal digital hiatus.
- Meeting with Ed.D. supervisor: conceptual ecologies, productive concepts, and hypozeugma
- Models of Learning: #tmoxon presentation
- Things I Learned This Week - #49
- Weeknote #30
January 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- Why I spent my twenties unlearning my teenage years.
- One week to go until we launch #purposed!
- Operationalising digital literacy #1: Wikileaks
- Educational philosophy, the zeitgeist, and #purposed
- Nobody knows what digital literacy is.
- Liminality and spare capacity
- The Productivity Prompting Box
- Best of Belshaw
- 30 things I've learned in 30 years.
- Baby Belshaw Top Trumps
- How I'm organising my digital outputs in 2011
- Why I've re-designated Synechism as CC0
- 10 things I did during Belshaw Black Ops.
February 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- PRINCE2 for schools (or, why don't schools have project managers?)
- The perils of shiny shiny educational technology.
- Effective learning and the physicality of the classroom.
- Literaci.es: Reflecting on New Literacies
- Why everyone should learn a little History and Philosophy.
- More on the (fragile) nature of reality.
- #ukedchat TONIGHT about #purposed
- Social media, backlash and the nature of reality.
- Productivity via Moleskine notebook indexing.
- Reflecting on Day 1 of Purpos/ed
- BOOM! Purpos/ed launches.
March 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- mobiMOOC: 2 April - 14 May 2011
- My thesis is your thesis.
- Bad Trip
- Revolutionary tools do not a revolution make.
- My research is your research.
- Collaboration, perception, and context.
- Trajectories of ambiguity: my first journal article.
- Web apps and workflows
- What I talk about when I talk about user outcomes (2)
- Using Digital Media to Improve Teaching and Learning
- Feeding back.
- What's the opposite of 'digital Taylorism'?
- Keith Belshaw's contribution to the #purposed debate
- i'm in ur conference startin a revolushunz
- Feed me! Feed me NOW!
- Less shiny.
- Why e-safety isn't part of digital literacy (and never will be).
- HOWTO: Create a clickable tag cloud using Tagul
April 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- Epistemic games and situated learning.
- From my research: New Literacies around the world
- What I talk about when I talk about ‘user outcomes’ #4
- Hog roasts, Amazon EC2 and traffic lights.
- How to do battle with Status Quo. And win.
- 5 interesting productivity-related resources I've come across recently
- The future of learning organizations: What do we mean by 'attendance'?
- 5 free, web-based tools to help you be a kick-ass researcher.
- Learning taxonomies: why 'creating' is not a cognitive skill.
- My favourite quotations from 'Teaching with the Tools Kids Really Use'
- 10 things educators forget to do after teacher training.
- e-Learning: Mobile learning, VLEs and Quality [video]
- I Got 99 Problems But a Workflow Ain't One.
- What I talk about when I talk about 'user outcomes' #3
- Exploring Mobile: Considerations and Opportunities
- Mobile phone ban? #govephonehome
- Purpos/ed featured in the TES
May 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- Blog name change
- Quick overview: iA's Writer app
- Schools as resources for fairness. [Future of Education]
- On the paucity of our collective imagination. [Future of Education]
- The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies (#digilit)
- How I Use a MacBook Pro (May 2011)
- The Digital Native/Immigrant dichotomy.
- How to teach using mobile devices
- Shift up a gear: work with me from September 2011!
- #uppingyourgame: a practical guide to personal productivity is NOW FREE!
- Reflecting on yesterday's Purpos/ed Summit for Instigators (#purposedpsi)
June 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- Read the first complete draft of my doctoral thesis on digital literacies.
- Why I'm starting to blog at DMLcentral
- My new work blog and other RSS goodies.
- Special Delivery: a letter to my children this Fathers Day.
- Project Reclaim: backing up to local network storage
- Giving my visitors some (virtual, P2P) cash.
- Project Reclaim: or, how I learned to start worrying and love my data.
- The myth underpinning '21st Century Skills' [Future of Education]
- Introducing 'User Outcomes Weekly'
- What I Talk About When I Talk About User Outcomes #5 - Productivity vs. Performativity
- "It's About Time!" Introducing Synechism Ltd.
July 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- A brand-new campaign for Purpos/ed: #purposedassess
- On the important difference between 'elite' and 'elitist'.
- The Setup.
- What would a post-test era look like for our schools?
- Jesus as a Social Marker? (or, How to Build a Community)
- Social Objects and the importance of sharing.
- Competition and the problem with 'reality'.
- What do new Social Networks tell us about Digital Literacies?
- Why Google+ is like an extended unboxing video.
- What I talk about when I talk about user outcomes - #6 - Open Educational Resources
- Purpos/ed, the #neverendingthesis and productivity [Ed Tech Crew podcast 165]
- How do you define attendance? [JISC Inform article]
August 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- What do Google, Open Source Software and Digital Literacies have in Common?
- Doug's Daily Planner (v1)
- Anarchy in the UK? The reasons behind the breakdown of social order.
- A quick rundown of what I'm up to until Christmas.
- We need to open our eyes to systemic injustice.
- Has England lost its rhythm?
- JOIN US! A semester of learning about Open Badges and assessment.
- The real story behind the #londonriots?
- Help me kick the tyres at semestersoflearning.org!
- Semester of Learning: Open Badges and assessment
September 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- Responding to some criticisms about 'badges' for lifelong learning
- 7 upcoming events about which I'm super-excited.
- 'Badges' for Lifelong Learning: Reframing the Debate (#openbadges, #dmlbadges)
- My Belbin results - Part 1
- Change MOOC - #change11
- Commoditising learning through the #flippedclassroom (or, the difference between education and training)
- Launch of the Mobile Learning infoKit
- #openbadges - Learner Stories
October 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- My mobile learning article for the Guardian Teacher Network
- Of Bitcoin and Badges.
- What I Learned at #MobilityShifts last week in NYC.
- On the importance of human agency.
- Getting started with Digital Literacies [Presentation]
- Introducing neverendingthesis.com! (a.k.a. today's the day I submit my Ed.D. thesis...)
- What did we learn during a 'semester of learning' on #openbadges over at P2PU.org?
- My Belbin results - Part 2
November 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- We need education for resilience, not flexibility.
- Investing in infrastructure: does it work?
- The Pre-Digital and the Post-Digital.
- #ukedchat #fail: TES attempts takeover cover-up whilst Pearson muscles-in on grassroots Twitter teacher CPD.
- An example of innovation being built upon standardization.
- How to Develop Digital Literacies in Yourself and Others [PRESENTATION]
- Robots: the elephant(s) in the room?
- Innovation in education: what I'll be talking about at the Guardian event today. (#IIE2011)
- Stop SOPA.
- [REMINDER] #BelshawBlackOps11
- Building a better future (despite the 1%)
- Why we need open, distributed social networks.
- Why peer-review is flawed.
- Bauman on inequality and the logic of capital.
- Zygmunt Bauman on Liquidity vs. Solidity
- If not now, when? Why we need #openbadges and #dmlbadges for lifelong learning RIGHT NOW.
- [INCOMING] #BelshawBlackOps11
January 2012 ( View complete archive page )
- Web literacy? (v0.1)
- Stripping back: #divest12
- In defence of digital literacies.
- Beyond academic journals?
- Journals, academia and the ivory tower.
- You need us more than we need you.
- Radio EDUtalk and #LWF12
- 2012 blog reader survey: full breakdown
- 2012 reader survey: interim results and book winners!
- How to create searchable notes from books using Evernote and your smartphone.
- Take my inagural reader survey. It'll take 5 minutes, tops. Promise.
- Best of Belshaw 2011 now available!
- What I got up do during #BelshawBlackOps11 (and what 2012 has in store)
- Thanks for waiting! Dr. Belshaw will see you now.
