QWERTY vs a fountain pen
This age and that kind of childhood we had to use fountain pens, never Biros. I learnt to type because I was given a second hand mechanical typewriter as a Christmas present. Odd, I thought. I had...
View ArticleI wonder if I’m weary of learning to use yet another software tool?
Those that intuitively add to what I know already are easy, whereas new platforms are not. A Mac user since the days of the ‘Classic‘ I find common tools such as Outlook quite foreign, plenty of...
View ArticleThere is such thing as ‘The Google Generation’– True or False?
Information behaviour of the researcher of the future. Written in 2007 (published 11 January 2008). Reviewed in 2011. Part of the Week 1 jollies for H800. (This picks up where I left off in the Forum...
View ArticleWhy I worry more about Web 4.0 than understanding Web 2.0
I’m on training journey … we left Web 1.0 at the platform, I’ve been through Web 2.0 and Web 3.0. The view from the window is confused and dark. By morning all will be clear and the wonderful world of...
View ArticleReflections on e-learning – September 2010 to September 2012
New Software Things I was starting to get my head around in 2010: Skype (a phone call for free) Delicious (don’t get it, yet … or need it?) Outlook (Never used it ’til last week not being a PC person)...
View ArticleMobile devices, mobile learners and Web 2.0
Fig 1. At World of Learning, 2012 – Video Arts offer video vignettes for mobile learning in the Tech Area From materials and commentary prepared by John Pettit (2008) Of course it is learning if it is...
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