dougbelshaw.com/blog » recommendations http://dougbelshaw.com/blog Education. Technology. Productivity. Wed, 23 May 2012 08:57:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Uncopyrighted http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2009/12/09/beyond-creative-commons-uncopyright/ dajbelshaw@gmail.com (Doug Belshaw) dajbelshaw@gmail.com (Doug Belshaw) 1440 http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/doug_south_park_144px.png dougbelshaw.com/blog http://dougbelshaw.com/blog 144 144 Education. Technology. Productivity. Education. Technology. Productivity. education technology productivity elearning Doug Belshaw Doug Belshaw dajbelshaw@gmail.com no no #eduhivefive (a suggestion). http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2009/12/12/edhivefive-a-suggestion/ http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2009/12/12/edhivefive-a-suggestion/#comments Sat, 12 Dec 2009 08:00:09 +0000 Doug Belshaw http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/?p=3717 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. :-p

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?

]]> http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2009/12/12/edhivefive-a-suggestion/feed/ 0 Recommend me 3 http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2008/03/20/recommend-me-3/ http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2008/03/20/recommend-me-3/#comments Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:17:49 +0000 Doug Belshaw http://www.dougbelshaw.com/2008/03/20/recommend-me-3/ 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:

Trends in Google Reader for Doug Belshaw

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? :D

]]> http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2008/03/20/recommend-me-3/feed/ 8 Learning Teacher Network – 10 recommendations for the future of teaching http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2006/09/17/learning-teacher-network-10-recommendations-for-the-future-of-teaching/ http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2006/09/17/learning-teacher-network-10-recommendations-for-the-future-of-teaching/#comments Sun, 17 Sep 2006 13:24:02 +0000 Doug Belshaw http://www.dougbelshaw.com/2006/09/17/learning-teacher-network-10-recommendations-for-the-future-of-teaching/ 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

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