Research Essentials

I treated myself to a Raspberry PI as a kind of late Christmas present. I am intrigued by the idea of something so small and inexpensive aimed at giving kids (and interested adults) the ability to get to grips with basic computing at a very low cost. I bought the Maplin Raspberry PI starter kit which [...]

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I have just spent all day putting together a presentation using Prezi. That’s not all the time it took – because I’ve already spent another day or two planning the presentation, making notes, gathering images and sketching out a plan. Altogether, the presentation has taken about 20 hours of my spare time – and I [...]

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Graham and Patrick led a technology coffee morning focused on their use of the Tobii eye tracker. This coffee morning differed from Jonathan and James’ presentation on eye tracking methods and methodologies in that it was more hands on with a focus on future possible uses of the equipment. Patrick began by describing how they [...]

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Identify a subject What is the focus? Why is this significant? Who would be interested? Identify a journal Which journals are interested in this subject – according to their aims and scope? Which journals have editors and readers who are likely to be interested in this? Check the journal Download four articles from the last [...]

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Attended this lunch-time presentation by an ex-student, Jonathan San-Diego and his supervisor James Aczel. I was interested to learn a little more about how you would go about collecting and analysing eye-tracking data, wondering what other applications it might be used for. Fascinating presentation. Interesting challenges. you could capture what people were looking at when [...]

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I’m almost reluctant to wade in with yet another post about twitter. It seems to quite polarise views. Will triggered qute an interesting dialogue when he highlighted some disadvantages of twitter in his blog and suggested that it might be possible to become addicted to twittering. Martin responded with some interesting points about how twittering [...]

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Last week, I completed my first 5 days with RescueTime. I was actually pretty delighted with what I found. I think RescueTime works well for me because virtually everything I do is online, so something that tracks what I do online is provides a fairly accurate reflection of what I am doing. I think it [...]

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Welcome to our presentation at Handheld Learning 2007. These are links which you should be able to follow during or after the presentation. Second Life www.secondlife.com AjaxLife http://ajaxlife.net Schome www.schome.ac.uk Introduction to the project See the post: ‘Teen Second Life After School Club Promo’ www.ncs-tech.org The Schome forum http://schome.open.ac.uk/forum Knowledge-Age skills http://schome.open.ac.uk/wikiworks/index.php/Second_Life_Knowledge_Age_skills Signing up for [...]

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I’ve seen several demos of Compendium, the knowlege-mapping software which can be downloaded for free from the Open University’s Open Learn website. I’d include a link here, but the Open Learn website is Byzantine in its layout and I can’t find the appropriate page. Anyway, it can also be downloaded from this non-OU site http://www.compendiuminstitute.org/download/download.htm [...]

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A few months back, I spent some time at http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/rssjnllist.html setting up RSS feeds for all the journals I receive Zetoc alerts for. A good feed contains a list of all the articles in the current issue . You can click to get authors, and then drill down to more information. Looking at my Netvibes page where [...]

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