Originally posted on Ontario School and System Leaders Edtech MOOC:(Pic and Post shared by Deb McCallum) This image is an example of one way to use twitter as a PLN. My image is just a snapshot of a longer informative and helpful conversation I had on twitter this June. When I had a question about Minecraft, and chromebooks, Ontario educators…

Using communication technology for education has been around since long before most teaching practitioners were born and in 2015 with everyone from toddlers to pensioners chatting away over the internet every day. Why are so few learning providers making use of 21st century technology to teach, assesses, talk with learners or employers, train staff or […]

Back in January I blogged about how we'd shared images from medical texts taken from the University of Liverpool's Special Collections & Archives. Well we're back at it again to release some History of Medicine images.There are around 120 images, all under Creative Commons licensing, that relate to the history of Medicine at/in Liverpool. We've filtered many of the images down, but along with some buildings and interiors, there are also images of the wards, nurses/doctors, nursing home (which is now my office), and even some images of clinical practice. The image above is the old Dining Room in my building, which is now the main admin office for the School of Medicine.Dr Sally Sheard from Liverpool's Institute of Psychology, Health and Society will hopefully be adding further metadata to the collection to provide more in depth understanding. If you check out the earlier collection, you'll see what I mean.I'm really pleased we've managed to release such images under Creative Commons - We've got over 350 images in total now, all under CC. Much of the hard work in getting these images comes down to a colleague Paul Duvall (Lecturer in Medical Education (TEL) ). I'm just the one banging on about CC :-) But it is really nice to see and think about how these buildings were used for very different purposes.You can access the History of Medicine Album on Flickr.Peter@Reedyreedles$nbsp;The Reed Diaries by Peter Reed is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License

Originally posted on doug --- off the record:…chances are it’s a duck and spends its life running from hunters. We could extrapolate this - if your school library looks like a 19th century library and runs like a 19th century library, chances are it’s a 19th century library and is running for its life…

On Christmas morning, in many houses in the UK, excited young people opened their shiny new internet-enabled devices. By late afternoon, many social media sites, such as Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat and Pinterest, had a whole new set of users. Parents everywhere, feeling proud that they had made their children very happy with their choice of […]

In the context of using technology in the FE & Skills sector, all too often it’s when there isn’t an up to date strategy in the first place, other than in the minds of the executive and or the IT department. Many strategies were produced/written when Becta or LSIS had money to give to colleges for technology […]

  Picture: Virtual Book Clubs, Deborah McCallum The enjoyment of reading is essential to developing strong and effective readers. Educators foster a love of reading when we allow learners to read and connect with the forms and functions of literacy that are relevant to our world right now is important. As I read the article […]

Day 3 of the #BYOD4L event focussed on the theme of Curating - how people curate via mobile devices (and desktop PCs) and the applications they use.As is becoming the norm, there was a lot of buzz in the tweet chat. There was some acknowledgement (by me at least) that curating is something people don't do enough of and we needed reminding that things like reference management (e.g. Mendeley) can serve as a curating tool.The visuals from the network are below, and you can follow through to the interactive version here. Again, there was a slight decrease in the total number of tweets to around 480 (dropping from 800 for day 1 and 600 for day 2). This might just be because +Chrissi Nerantzi wasn't online last night though ;-)Although that is a joke, there could be something in the suggestion that when the more active people in the network are not present - such as Chrissi (and to a lesser degree myself), then other people can come through.... Take the following as an example.It is particularly nice to see some users clearly gaining confidence in tweet chats. See Rod Cullen for example, who played a much bigger role last night than in either of the two previous. So a big well done for him. How much of that is down to pure confidence (which I'd argue has been built up by the very facilitation of the like of Chrissi), or the absence of other active networkers? And Rod isn't alone here.Anyway, what do you see when you look at the visuals?A Storify has been created by @byod4l for the day 3 chat on curating:[View the story "Bring your own devices for learning: Curate" on Storify]Peter@Reedyreedles$nbsp;The Reed Diaries by Peter Reed is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License

After a few weeks of chasing students for missing work, internal verification meetings and forward planning, you could be forgiven for thinking, great , now relax, here comes the summer holidays. But don’t break open the suntan lotion just yet, you’ve still got one more hurdle to climb and it’s a big one. It’s staff […]

  We are living in an age of information, and the digital divide has ramifications not just for those who have money or resources, but also for those who cannot access resources. Students need to be proficient in information literacy to not just become critical consumers of information, but also to become proficient producers of […]