Technology
2024
- 10th April - Exporting blog posts to JSON for easier use with LLMs such as ChatGPT
- 2nd March - Elysium, elites, and elision
- 10th January - One does not simply move off Substack
2023
- 24th August - Handing over ownership of exercise.cafe
- 21st July - The Threads dilemma: a lesson in cooperative decision-making
- 25th May - The everyday essence of creativity
- 22nd May - Using AI to help solve Bloom’s Two Sigma Problem
- 5th May - Reimagining assessment practices using AI tools
- 26th April - Using Snapchat’s ‘My AI’ feature for revision
- 25th April - The future of collaboration is federated
- 18th March - Applying my digital literacies model to ‘AI literacy’
- 8th March - RetroEmoji Challenge: a simple game created using ChatGPT
- 15th February - Voodoo categorisation and dynamic ontologies in the world of OER
- 5th January - Building an iPod for 2023
2022
- 25th November - Defederation and governance processes
- 21st November - How to CW on the Fediverse
- 14th November - What does this button do? The perils of being the other side of a screen to an algorithm
- 12th November - On the importance of Fediverse server rules
- 3rd November - The Fediverse is made up of cities, towns, and villages
- 30th August - Thinking about a Fediverse instance focused on fitness / exercise
- 26th August - Returning to social.coop
- 21st August - Context collection, not context collapse
- 21st August - Chronological social interaction
- 20th August - Full Internet People
- 30th July - Bonfire’s latest trick shows Google+ circles came a decade early
- 11th July - Some thoughts on ‘home’ pages for individuals within communities (and social networks)
- 1st July - 5 domains I’m letting expire over the next year
- 25th June - Bonfire beta
- 2nd June - Successfully combining home VDSL and 4G+ connections
- 23rd May - Videoconferencing may be a technology, but so is Sociocracy
- 11th May - Documenting my attempts to replace VDSL home broadband with a 5GEE router
- 5th May - A welcome corrective to narratives around the ‘future of work’
- 26th April - Words and meaning are two different things
- 19th April - Unauditible algorithms are the enemy of social media users
- 10th March - Exploring the sweet spot for Zappa project approaches to misinformation
- 5th March - First version of report published sharing findings from Zappa project user research
- 18th February - Some interesting findings from user research for the Zappa project (so far!)
- 8th February - Countering misinformation in federated social networks: an introduction to the Zappa project
- 26th January - If web3 is the financialisation of the web, then ed3 is merely the (further) financialisation of education
- 7th January - Experimenting with new tools to augment my information environment
- 6th January - Productive ambiguity and learning resource discovery
2021
- 29th October - EBSN podcast series on EPALE: Re-thinking Adult Basic Skills in the 21st century
- 16th October - Blogging from localhost to IPFS
- 4th September - Bright green, blight green, and lean green futures
- 3rd August - Gaming, technology, and solving problems
- 2nd August - Two years of spending more time in ‘dark forests’
- 13th May - Stick or twist? (dougbelshaw.com)
- 11th May - 3 ways to gain control of your Twitter feed
- 30th April - Smartwatch ramblings
2020
- 10th October - The problems with Twitter’s attempts at anti-disinformation in the run-up to the US Presidential election
- 1st April - Domains, decentralisation, and DNS
2019
- 12th May - Change your launcher, change your life
- 3rd April - Fediverse field trip
- 24th March - My ChromeOS apps and extensions
- 24th January - Using Twitter as a lens for some thoughts on launching products
2018
- 27th November - A conversation with Adam Procter about Project ‘NodeNoggin’
- 17th September - The fate of private social networks
- 17th July - How emoji triplets could help with trust and identity on decentralised social networks
- 29th January - More on the mechanics of GDPR
2017
- 1st December - Destroying capitalism, one stately home at a time
- 16th October - New blog: Doug, uncensored
- 5th October - Decentralised technologies mean censorship-resistant websites
- 27th July - My blog was without an ‘LMS isn’t dead’ post, so I thought I’d write one.
- 6th July - Why I’ve just ditched my cloud-based password manager
- 2nd June - Friends don’t let friends use Facebook
- 28th May - 3 reasons I’ll not be returning to Twitter
- 12th May - Some thoughts on Keybase, online security, and verification of identity
- 3rd May - So it turns out that you can pretty much do whatever you like on your own website
- 25th April - Why I’m not using Twitter next month
- 9th March - My sites are now hosted in the European Union
- 6th March - Preparing for ‘Story Hack’
- 7th February - Safer Internet Day 2017 resources
- 25th January - Experimenting with push notifications
- 24th January - The Flatter Organisational Structure Of The Future
2016
- 10th November - 7 approaches to educational technology integration
- 2nd November - How I’m Getting Shift Done
- 31st October - The importance of working ‘open’ in education and business
- 5th October - My CC Superheroes
- 29th September - Discipline in the field of edtech
- 4th June - Improving the style and content of dynamicskillset.com
- 19th May - The Future of Work: Trends and Toolsets
- 13th May - A walkthrough of 9Sharp, a new platform for personal branding [SPONSOR]
- 28th April - 3 Types of EdTech Baggage: Toolsets, Mindsets, Skillsets [DML Central]
- 17th March - Taking back control of the web: an easy way to host and run secure open source apps
- 11th February - The Possibilities of Badges and Blockchain [DML Central]
2015
- 22nd October - 5 ways to use NFC-enabled business cards
- 23rd September - A Decentralized System for Education and Assessment
- 18th September - Taking Another Look at the Digital Credentials Landscape [DMLcentral]
- 10th September - Apple product launches as attention conservation devices
- 9th September - Your liberty will not survive combat drones
- 14th July - Setting an Agile School Rhythm [DMLcentral]
- 13th July - Claim your Advanced Kanban badge!
- 9th July - The Increasing Significance of Social Media in the Learner Journey [FE Week]
- 8th July - The Increasing Significance of Technology in Further Education [FE Week]
- 30th June - Claim your Kanban 101 badge!
- 29th June - HOWTO: Trello Kanban
- 26th May - Web Literacy: what happens beyond peak centralisation and software with shareholders?
- 25th May - Flying a drone through Mitford Castle window
- 3rd May - My Twitter ads verdict: a waste of time and money
- 1st May - Experimenting with Twitter ads for my ebook
- 24th April - An exciting week for Open Badges
- 21st April - Why you should create canonical URLs
- 16th April - The three biggest (perceived) problems with Open Badges
- 14th April - HOWTO: Create a podcast
- 31st March - Peering Deep into Future of Educational Credentialing [DMLcentral]
- 10th March - Today In Digital Education (TIDE): a new podcast from Dai Barnes and Doug Belshaw
- 26th February - An important day for the Internet
- 5th February - My current Mozilla workflow: Trello, Google Mail, and GitHub
- 2nd February - Technological innovation and mental models
- 1st February - #ScreenFreeSunday
- 23rd January - How do you explain the web to your kids?
- 20th January - Seven places I find interesting, relevant and useful stuff in 2015
- 4th January - HOWTO: use GitHub Pages to host a bootstrap-themed website
2014
- 28th August - Twitter, algorithms, and digital dystopias
- 26th August - Indie Tech Summit: On raising the next generation [VIDEO]
- 19th August - Open Badges: 3D printing for credentials?
- 15th August - Announcing Maker Party Newcastle 2014
- 21st July - FirefoxOS v2.0 is possibly the easiest-to-use smartphone operating system I’ve experienced
- 15th June - HOWTO: Ditch Gmail for self-hosted webmail
- 13th June - Reclaiming the Web for the Next Generation [DMLcentral]
- 28th May - So here’s the problem…
- 19th May - On ‘Kit Builder’
- 23rd April - Software with shareholders (or, the menace of private public spaces)
- 19th April - Rethinking Literacy for the Web [Educating Modern Learners]
- 13th April - Choose your silo (or, Why are we partying like it’s 1999?)
- 4th April - Bad Parenting (or, On The Meditative Nature of Screens)
- 11th March - On the link between Open Education and the Open Web
- 24th February - More on the web as the platform
- 13th January - The web is the platform (or, the perils of esoteric setups)
2013
- 13th October - My iPad Mini apps (October 2013)
- 26th September - Moving on from SpiderOak Hive to BTSync
- 28th August - Why I’m saying goodbye to Dropbox and hello to SpiderOak Hive
- 25th August - On the NSA revelations
- 22nd August - I am not Richard Stallman
- 28th June - 5 reasons to use Open Source Software
- 18th June - Privacy, the NSA and Web Literacies [DMLcentral]
- 9th June - Reality check: in light of the NSA revelations, just who do we need to fear?
- 24th May - I may not be subtle, but I am now @Svbtle
- 30th April - What does a non-Web world look like? Investigating Bittorrent Sync.
- 29th April - An Anarcho-Syndicalist critique of Web browsers
- 18th April - My iPhone apps (April 2013)
- 21st March - Why I
- 16th February - How to ensure your blog posts last forever.
- 16th January - On living in the future
2012
- 28th November - Why governments, schools and other public institutions should use Github.
- 24th November - Want a tablet? Choose your vendor lock-in.
- 21st November - What is ‘technology’ anyway?
- 13th November - Using Raspberry Pi and XBMC to build an ultra-cheap HTPC.
- 20th October - More thoughts on iPads and one-to-one initiatives.
- 19th October - Some thoughts on iPads and one-to-one initiatives [DMLcentral]
- 16th October - How I use a MacBook Pro (October 2012)
- 15th October - Open Badges, Clay Shirky, and the tipping point.
- 19th September - What I’m up to for Mozilla at the moment.
- 10th September - Mozilla, Webmaking, and the Architecture of Participation
- 4th September - Project Reclaim: a pragmatic update
- 29th August - Why a ‘mixed economy’ of digital devices is best for your educational institution.
- 27th August - A few brief thoughts on the Google Nexus 7. [REVIEW]
- 9th August - Google Apps for Education UK summit [HELP REQUIRED]
- 8th August - How to implement technology successfully in your organisation.
- 3rd August - Mac OSX Mountain Lion 10.8: vendor lock-in for the masses?
- 25th July - HOWTO: Issue #openbadges in 5 steps using WordPress + WPBadger
- 18th July - Lesson plans, social bookmarking and the purpose of education: a response to the latest Hack Education podcast
- 10th July - S2R reporters interview me about #openbadges at #MozLDN
- 2nd July - Getting up to speed on the technical side of #openbadges
- 29th June - #OpenBadges through the rear-view mirror?
- 25th June - Join me at #MozParty Newcastle on 21st July 2012! [EVENT]
- 20th June - On the Importance of Webmaking [DMLcentral]
- 18th June - Commodification, consumerism and the new ‘Retina’ MacBook Pro.
- 14th June - Web literacies? (v0.2 beta)
- 4th June - Displaying #OpenBadges with BadgeWidgetHack.
- 31st May - Zen and the Art of Digital Literacies (#EdTech12)
- 23rd May - Examining conceptions of innovation in educational technology [INTERVIEW]
- 16th April - More on P2PU’s School of Webcraft
- 10th April - Project Reclaim: consolidating my blogs.
- 9th April - 3 principles for a more Open approach.
- 8th April - Platforms as standards? 10 days with the Nokia N9.
- 30th March - Beyond Elegant Consumption.
- 20th March - On the new politics of technology.
- 7th February - Twitter, TweetBot and Custom API endpoints
2011
- 19th November - Robots: the elephant(s) in the room?
- 16th November - Stop SOPA.
- 11th November - Why we need open, distributed social networks.
- 1st November - [INCOMING] #BelshawBlackOps11
- 5th October - On the importance of human agency.
- 2nd October - What did we learn during a ‘semester of learning’ on #openbadges over at P2PU.org?
- 28th September - 7 upcoming events about which I’m super-excited.
- 27th September - ‘Badges’ for Lifelong Learning: Reframing the Debate (#openbadges, #dmlbadges)
- 7th September - Launch of the Mobile Learning infoKit
- 13th August - JOIN US! A semester of learning about Open Badges and assessment.
- 7th August - Semester of Learning: Open Badges and assessment
- 26th July - The Setup.
- 4th July - Purpos/ed, the #neverendingthesis and productivity [Ed Tech Crew podcast 165]
- 18th June - Project Reclaim: backing up to local network storage
- 14th June - Giving my visitors some (virtual, P2P) cash.
- 28th May - Quick overview: iA’s Writer app
- 20th May - The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies (#digilit)
- 15th May - How I Use a MacBook Pro (May 2011)
- 10th May - How to teach using mobile devices
- 29th April - Epistemic games and situated learning.
- 18th April - 5 free, web-based tools to help you be a kick-ass researcher.
- 15th April - My favourite quotations from ‘Teaching with the Tools Kids Really Use’
- 6th April - Exploring Mobile: Considerations and Opportunities
- 4th April - Mobile phone ban? #govephonehome
- 30th March - mobiMOOC: 2 April – 14 May 2011
- 22nd March - Revolutionary tools do not a revolution make.
- 17th March - Web apps and workflows
- 15th March - Using Digital Media to Improve Teaching and Learning
- 12th March - Feeding back.
- 5th March - Feed me! Feed me NOW!
- 3rd March - Less shiny.
- 1st March - HOWTO: Create a clickable tag cloud using Tagul
- 26th February - The perils of shiny shiny educational technology.
- 15th February - Why everyone should learn a little History and Philosophy.
2010
- 30th November - JISC Mobile and Wireless Technologies Review
- 29th November - Dell Latitude 2110: a review.
- 9th November - The Mobile Learning Edge: Tools and Technologies for Developing Your Teams [Review]
- 21st October - Edtech companies: inspiring or conspiring?
- 17th October - Notifo: a notifications inbox
- 23rd September - 5 things it’s currently fashionable to say (without much evidence)
- 22nd September - Why I’ve turned off GMail Priority Inbox
- 22nd September - What goes into my conference bag?
- 21st September - Is now a good time to get an iPad?
- 16th September - HOWTO: Use Evernote to take notes on books.
- 11th September - A response to Donald Clark’s #altc2010 keynote
- 9th September - The 3 most important things I learned at ALT-C 2010
- 7th September - 5 things I can do with my Kindle that you can’t with your dead-tree books.
- 5th September - Your anti-ebook rhetoric is like a broken record.
- 3rd September - 10 reasons I like reading ebooks more than paper books.
- 2nd September - Greplin: potential solver of a huge problem?
- 2nd September - Go to conferences? Use Lanyrd.
- 27th August - Let me tell you what I think ‘this’ is.
- 27th August - I sync therefore I am.
- 26th August - Embedding a live Twitter search in Keynote 09
- 19th August - Education Eye: an RSS reader for those who don’t feed-read…
- 12th August - New metaphors and symbols required!
- 10th August - Google Apps Marketplace: apps worth installing
- 7th August - Write lots? Buy this.
- 4th August - Why I’m not the Wizard of Oz
- 4th August - The freeze-thaw method of technology integration.
- 3rd August - Google Knol: the future of academic journals?
- 31st July - The sublime and the ridiculous.
- 29th July - Google Earth for #GTAUK
- 27th July - Google Apps (Education Edition) vs. Microsoft Live@Edu
- 21st July - Intention vs. Effect
- 7th July - #GTAUK: Google Earth wiki & ebook
- 6th July - A life in my technological day.
- 29th June - Why do we use technology?
- 22nd June - Hands-on with the Dell Streak.
- 17th June - HOWTO: Google Scholar email alerts
- 15th June - …and 5 reasons why I bought a Dell Streak again.
- 11th June - 10 reasons I returned my Dell Streak today.
- 8th June - (In)decisive Doug, the Dell Streak and iPhone 4.
- 2nd June - 5 genuinely useful Twitter tools.
- 1st June - The future of mobile is open and smart.
- 27th May - My bMoble TeachMeet presentation
- 26th May - Twitter is not the best CPD you’ve ever received.
- 25th May - 5 reasons I’m using less and less Open Source stuff.
- 21st May - Battery life: iPhone 3GS vs Google Nexus One vs HTC Desire
- 18th May - Why Open Source should be more like Fairtrade.
- 11th May - How to use Netvibes as a project management hub.
- 4th May - Google Wave: now with added usefulness.
- 27th April - 3 online tools I’m using to increase my work-related productivity
- 22nd April - Using a Sony Reader PRS-600 to make notes on academic articles.
- 13th April - Why I’m using iPREDator now the Digital Economy Bill has been passed
- 9th April - The ultra-paranoid guide to ensuring you’ve got your presentation slides.
- 6th April - Some reflections on the organization of #BectaX
- 2nd April - Music I’m running to at the moment,
- 30th March - Learning Score, a lesson-planning tool. [Review]
- 25th March - A partial review of ‘The Hyperlinked Society’
- 23rd March - How to move forward with Open Source: a teacher’s perspective
- 9th March - HOWTO: Create iTunes audiobooks from MP3s
- 2nd March - Get that cool Google-style ‘reveal’ effect on your site.
- 23rd February - Alternatives to Google
- 16th February - iPhone apps I currently use.
- 13th February - Google Buzz is not a Twitter-killer.
- 11th February - Some considerations regarding ebook readers for academics.
- 2nd February - A quick way to add a ‘sparkline’ to your blog.
- 22nd January - BumpTop: ‘interesting’ or genuinely useful?
- 19th January - Learning Score
- 9th January - Off-site and cloud-based backup: my solution.
- 4th January - Mac OSX apps I currently use.
2009
- 21st December - #movemeon book now available!
- 21st December - Google: excellence and diversity?
- 20th December - How I deal with email.
- 19th December - Hyperlocality and iterating towards 2.0
- 18th December - My digital reading workflow.
- 17th December - A non-Luddite rebuttal of technology integration?
- 12th December - #eduhivefive (a suggestion).
- 8th December - The problem with free stuff.
- 7th December - E-safety: the ‘googleability test’ (a suggestion).
- 4th December - Social media, open standards & curmudgeonliness.
- 1st December - My #TMETRU09 presentation: #movemeon & CPD via Twitter
- 27th November - A useful way to categorise educational technologies.
- 19th November - #movemeon – a suggestion.
- 1st November - 12 educational ways of using 12seconds.tv
- 25th October - Got a blog? Do this simple thing to boost your readership.
- 24th October - Why Ewan McIntosh *was* (partly) wrong.
- 20th October - How to restore a very large MySQL file without errors.
- 14th October - Where we’re headed with the Academy’s E-Learning ecosystem.
- 12th October - 3 ways Google Wave could be used in the classroom.
- 9th October - Has WordPress-powered P2 left me ‘more organized and productive’?
- 5th October - Sign up for TeachMeet ETRU edition 09!
- 4th October - On the important difference between hitchhiking and bandwagon-jumping.
- 24th September - E-Learning Strategy Overview (a.k.a. my 3-year plan)
- 12th September - Heuristical Templates (or, how to review elearning stuff in a way that benefits others)
- 11th September - A video introduction to using Google Calendar for timetables and meetings
- 30th August - Why I’m trying to make myself redundant.
- 29th August - Join us for EdTechRoundUp 2009/10!
- 8th August - HOWTO: Tether an iPhone to a netbook running Jolicloud
- 8th August - Meeting with Ed.D. thesis supervisor: ‘aspirational naming,’ hegemonic power and finishing early?
- 7th August - Jolicloud: my first impressions of the ‘cool new [social] OS for your netbook’
- 1st August - Which is the best netbook operating system?
- 23rd July - The importance of heuristics in educational technology and elearning.
- 15th July - HOWTO: Present using Cooliris (advanced)
- 9th July - Pure gold nuggets from Shirky
- 7th July - HOWTO: Present using Cooliris (the basics…)
- 3rd July - Raising achievement in History at KS4 using e-learning
- 23rd June - Open Source Schools – Open Source Software: an overview
- 13th May - Why (educational) technology?
- 30th April - What are the ‘functional specifications’ of a VLE that drive real learning?
- 28th April - Looking to the future of education: learning spaces and mobile devices
- 27th April - HOWTO: Make yourself more visible online by building a Google Profile
- 2nd April - The Big E-Learning Questions
- 27th March - How E-Learning can contribute to raising achievement
- 21st March - HOWTO: Present full-screen using Prezi and an Apple Remote [OSX]
- 24th February - The evolution of EdTechRoundUp
- 18th February - Open Source Schools curriculum meeting
- 15th February - Digital things upon which I *do* and *would* spend real cash.
- 27th January - HOWTO: Add an RSS feed to Google Sites
- 25th January - My Computing History
- 18th January - Safeguarding: the next step in the transition to Web 3.0?
- 17th January - BETT 2009, TeachMeet & and iPhone misfortunes
2008
- 11th December - elearnr: what have I been up to?
- 7th December - Wanna buy my Macbook?
- 3rd December - The Simpsons ‘do’ Apple…
- 29th November - Interesting Ways to use Netbooks in the Classroom
- 23rd November - Functionally and aesthetically-speaking: Asus Eee 1000 vs. Advent 4211
- 12th November - First photos with my new Canon 1000D digital SLR
- 21st October - What does it take to build a community?
- 20th October - 3 ways to prevent being ‘unfollowed’ on Twitter
- 19th October - Digital Permanence: Death & Data
- 25th August - Why as an educator you should care about Open Source Software
- 20th August - 90% digital, or 12 ways my teaching ecosystem is evolving.
- 18th August - elearnr – new blog for a new role!
- 6th August - The feature that will make Posterous better than Edublogs is…
- 1st August - 3 reasons I returned my iPhone 3G
- 27th July - edte.ch barnraising: get involved in forming a community!
- 9th July - The Never-ending (Gadget) Story… the Advent 4211
- 23rd June - I want educational technology to be boring.
- 16th June - Introducing TweetMeet
- 2nd June - AUP 2.0
- 30th May - Porn in every school? or Why filtering will soon be irrelevant.
- 28th May - I’ve sold my Asus Eee 4G. What now?
- 18th May - What is a VLE?
- 13th May - Creating an Interactive Whiteboard using a Nintendo WiiMote
- 7th May - Towards a forward-thinking Acceptable Use Policy for mobile devices
- 28th April - We have a winner!
- 31st March - Wixi: a bizarre yet useful free file-sharing / web-desktop hybrid
- 27th March - New Asus eee user? Read this!
- 24th March - Eee-aye, eee-aye, eee-aye… oh.
- 23rd March - EdTechRoundup 3 featuring Yours Truly
- 21st March - AppleTV? Pah!
- 20th March - Recommend me 3
- 13th March - Google Apps proposal
- 8th March - Sync any type of video (DivX, Xvid, etc.) with an AppleTV
- 2nd March - Edmodo: Twitter for education?
- 28th February - Google Sites – wikis for Google Apps users!
- 26th February - (Google) Talk to me!
- 23rd February - Don’t miss Stephen Fry’s blog and podcast
- 21st February - THIS is how technology can enhance learning
- 12th February - 3 strikes and then out for UK ‘illegal’ downloaders?
- 11th February - Hacking an AppleTV v1.1
- 9th February - How to turn your Nokia phone into a wireless hotspot
- 4th February - EdTechRoundup: Episode 2
- 4th February - Animoto rocks! Here’s proof…
- 2nd February - 3 reasons the majority of students are NOT ‘digitally literate’
- 27th January - Pimp your 5g iPod Video to look like an iPod Touch
- 26th January - Page Peel Script
- 17th January - EdTechRoundup podcasts are go!
- 16th January - Mac OSX: changing spots back to stripes
- 12th January - Reflections on BETT 2008
- 1st January - How to upgrade your Nokia N95 to v12.x firmware and make it a whole lot better
2007
- 19th December - Lost my contacts
- 24th October - Phew! So it’s not ADHD…
- 6th October - PVR comparison and roundup
- 25th September - Amazon MP3 launches, not for UK
- 28th August - Google Phone
- 28th July - HOWTO: Nintendo DS & Orange Livebox
- 19th July - How to get a GPS fix quicker on the Nokia N95
- 19th July - NESTA ‘Hidden Innovation’ report
- 11th July - Twitter Screensaver
- 26th June - Apple iPhone vs Nokia N95
- 20th June - HOWTO: fix your Xbox after messing about with the EEPROM
- 17th June - Getting GPS working for Nokia Sports Tracker on the N95
- 13th June - How NOT to upgrade your Xbox
- 30th May - Nokia N95 tips, reviews and software all in one place
- 28th May - My first GPS-tracked run
- 16th May - Nokia N95: the solution to problems I didn’t even know I had…
- 21st April - Lenovo 3000 N100 and Windows Vista
- 12th April - Geekifying my run
- 10th March - Picasa Web Albums vs. Flickr
- 5th March - Return of the Mac
- 14th February - Macbook vs. my new laptop? No contest…
- 14th February - The BBC are Twittering
- 12th February - Macbook woes