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Connectivism and Affinity Spaces: Some Initial Thoughts
Credit: Photograph by Jake Rome (jakerome) under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic license Image: Photograph composited from pieces of many other photographs: a visual affinity....
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How To Export Mac Kindle App Annotations to a Digital Notebook
I have a number of books I can only read and annotate easily using the Kindle software on either my iPad or my Mac. Their reading software does not have a built-in easy way to export the notes or...
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PR: Press On or Play the Ostrich?
Credit: Photo by blakeimeson under an Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic license Image: Should I be the person hiding my head in the sand? In response to the Sussex TLDU RUSTLE article on my World of...
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I claim firsts: Starting Small — The Book Review
Credit: Photo by Michelle A. Hoyle under an Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic license Last month, amidst the busyness and stresses of my life, an important event passed by without fanfare or notice:...
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Pet Peeve: Sore Dominion Losers
Credit: Screenshot by Michelle A. HoyleImage: Dominion on the iPad Credit: Photo by Newtown graffiti under a CC BY 2.0 LicenseImage: It makes me so angry! A few Christmases back, a good friend...
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Thunderbird-based Postbox Drops Price Massively
Credit: Postbox, Inc. Postbox's mailbox application icon Postbox, the Thunderbird-forked e-mail client I’ve been playing with for the last month after a discussion with Alan Cann about e-mail clients,...
View ArticleIt’s Such a Perfect Day, the Video
“Just a perfect day, You made me forget myself. I thought I was someone else, Someone good.” I was visiting the UK from Switzerland when the BBC aired this “commercial” for themselves in 1997, based...
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Persist or Die: Learning in World of Warcraft
Back in March 2011, I gave an invited keynote at the JISC Scotland/Consolarium Game To Learn: Take 2 conference in Dundee, Scotland. The abstract read: All you need to understand is everything you...
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Gamification: Good or Bad?
Credit: Diagram by Michelle A. HoyleImage: Deterding et al’s (2011) situating of gamification as being partially game-like and being more gaming than playing. Earlier this summer, I signed up for...
View ArticleThe Ecstasy and Agony of Primitive Learning Analytics
I’m awake and trying to be productive (for me) early in the day. I’m technically on a medical leave of absence but I’m not very good at doing nothing. I therefore promised to coordinate and edit the...
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Coursera, Pedagogy, and the Two Faces of MOOCs
Credit: Photo by Giulia Forsythe under a CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 License I recently successfully finished my first massive open online course (MOOC). It was the 6-week Gamification course on the new Coursera...
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The Great OU Dropbox Space Race. Join In!
Credit: Image copyrighted/owned by Dropbox Most people have probably heard of the handy cross-platform Dropbox shared folder service. It allows you to designate a folder on your Mac or PC and access...
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