Archive for August, 2007



If your audience are all checking their texts, it’s time to move on…

Published on August 29, 2007

Why do conferences give out style sheets for papers, impose word lengths, demand specific referencing styles but never ever give people any guidance about producing a good Powerpoint? How is it that intelligent people sit through Powerpoint presentation after Powerpoint presentation without ever deducing some of the principles of good design and good presentation? * […]


Too many blogs!

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I wanted to blog about the EARLI conference in my ‘research essentials’ blog but I seem to have misremembered the password and I haven’t got any note of it on this computer. Not much point to having a blog I can’t access.


In print

Published on August 13, 2007

Only a book review – but it is out there! Ferguson, R., Thinking and Learning with ICT: Raising Achievement in Primary Classrooms, R. Wegerif and L.Dawes. (2004) ISBN: 0-415-30475-X, Thinking Skills and Creativity (2007), doi:10.1016/j.tsc.2007.07.001