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There’s a seminar coming up that I’m planning to go to on the semiotics of Powerpoint. In the meantime I found this blog (the URL’s too long, so I’ve had to break it up)http://homepage.mac.com/lesposen/ blogwavestudio/LH20040807225237/LHA20060422204527/index.html piece about how Keynote (see promotional pic) is infinitely better than Powerpoint – it frees you from endless blobby lists […]
John Lanchester, Guardian Weekend, 4 Nov 2006 http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1940641,00.html ‘Email was once a marvel of practicality and utility; people under the age of 25, though, never knew a time before it was broken by spam, and prefer to use instant messaging or texting. In the corporate world, as a publisher once told me, “email’s main function […]
Lots of interesting things came out of the OU Research Day. I liked the speaker who pointed out that the RAE is an end not a means. Interesting to view it as a tool, not a task.
My reading of the DZX222 Help Conferences suggests a problem built into the online course idea. These days, we expect sotware and gadgets to be intuitive. If they’re not we get frustrated, angry and, more than likely, give up. Now, DZX222 has a detailed set of printed materials, as you would expect from an OU […]
No sooner do I vent in my blog about my interrupted epistolary interviews than both interviewees get back to me with answers. 🙂 🙂 🙂
My pilot interviews are throwing up lots of things that didn’t happen last year. I guess, as I’m adding about 25% to my knowledge of this technique, that that is only to be expected. Gill sent me web links and attachments – thus demonstrating that you can use these interviews in that way if you […]
Inspired by Anesa’s recent blog posts, I have started to write up my thesis! Karen did suggest a couple of months ago that I could bank some sections of my PhD which I was feeling confident about. Accordingly, I’ve written 1000 words on the ethics of online research, which wasn’t too complicated, as I drew […]