Archive for: January 2005

January 22, 2005

Apache and OSS

Filed under: Reviews - 22 Jan 2005

I was at the OSS Watch conference on Thursday and very interesting if at times above my head it was. David Plans Casal who is a part of the Apache Foundation gave an illuminating …

January 13, 2005

iPhoto - what a good idea

Filed under: Frippery - 13 Jan 2005

I was browsing through my iPhoto and it brought back loads of memories. These two examples were from Cornwall a couple of years ago when I vistied Ian Tindal with Pete Bradshaw. Ian introduced us to beach stone sculpting. …

Undergraduate criticality

Filed under: Reviews - 13 Jan 2005

What do we mean by criticality? This is a much used term in Higher Education and it could be argued that it is at the heart of the ‘University Experience’, that is teaching students how to be critically reflective thinkers …

January 11, 2005

Choice, Personalisation and Learning

Filed under: Conceptualisations - 11 Jan 2005

Bob Fryer’s (new role as NHS National Director for Widening Participation in Learning) take on the e-learning agenda came from a slightly different perspective from other delegates. His passion was located in the notion of citizenship and identifying the …

What use digital Libraries?

Filed under: Reviews - 11 Jan 2005

Tom Reeves from The University of Georgia presented on the focus of digital libraries (repositories for digital content such as online library databases, museum artefacts, science focussed resources such as those produced by C4) but his ideas were in …