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#uppingyourgame: an educator's guide to productivity is now up to v0.4!
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This follows on a previous post r.e. the problem with (non-OSS) free stuff.

Image: ‘Bees‘

I’ll keep this short.

Lifehacker has a great regular thing called Hive Five for software/productivity recommendations. It goes like this:

1. Question asked: ‘What’s the best x for y?’
2. People respond.
3. Five most mentioned in a positive way become ‘recommended’.

We should totally do this for education. I’ve created a wiki at http://eduhivefive.wikispaces.com in anticipation.

Perhaps, given the demise of Etherpad, we could kick off with: “What’s the best online tool for collaborative writing?” and use #eduhivefive and #writing as hashtags?

Posted: December 12th, 2009
Categories: Education, Technology
Tags: collaboration, edte.ch, Education, eduhivefive, elearning, recommendations, Technology, Web 2.0, wiki
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Just before Christmas I suffered from blogging burn-out. Having our first son in January last year knocked me for six and the consequences became apparent towards the end of the year. So I made a bit of a dramatic decision (at least for me).

I unsubscribed from every blog I subscribed to via Google Reader.

Now I’m suffering from information under-load (if there’s such a term). I feel a bit disconnected in terms of my main areas of interest: education, technology, productivity. So, reader, I need your help! Which blogs would you recommend in these areas? Are there any that you don’t miss a single post from? Check out my Trends provided courtesy of Google Reader below:

Once upon a time I’d read 1,000 items in a day, never mind a month. Of course, I want quality over quantity.

I’ve shown you mine – care to show me yours?

Posted: March 20th, 2008
Categories: Productivity, Technology
Tags: blogs, Education2, feeds, Google Reader, graphs, posts, Productivity, reader, reading, recommendations, RSS, Technology, trends
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The Learning Teacher Network has published Ten Recommendations on the New Role of the Teacher which should make interesting reading, especially as it’s a Comenius-funded network…

Learning Teacher Network – the future of teaching

Posted: September 17th, 2006
Categories: Everything Else
Tags: Comenius, Ed.D., recommendations, Research, role, teaching, Thesis
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