As a postmortem on the last post I wrote regarding the search for a means of auto-posting daily Twitter digests to Blogger, I wanted to report back on the outcomes of the investigation.
In the end I gave up. After many days of looking and searching – first for an easy solution and then progressively more and more complex ones as the week drew on – I ultimately realised I was developing an increasingly convoluted design merely to stay with a free public blogging service.
As it turned out this issue …

I’ve been beating my head against a basic technical question for about a week now and have made zero progress on it thus far.  So in keeping with the way I’ve always coped with this sort of thing, I’m going to put pen to paper – in this case fingers to keyboard – and write about the issue in the hopes of realising something I’ve overlooked.
The fundamental objective is to develop a process of capturing a day’s worth of Twitter posts, and auto-posting them in digest form to a Blogger/Blogspot …

I’m in a bit of a quandary over something I need to think through here.
I think diversity in educational technology is important, nay, essential to online learning. By this I mean choice; choice to explore different systems, different tools and networks; interact through visual mediums, auditory mediums, textual mediums, virtual mediums too.
Learning is diverse and unique – so too should be the spaces in which we learn.
But in increasing choice we also introduce additional factors that each carry their own implications. Foremost on my mind in this respect – particularly …

I’d hoped to flesh out this post further today but I’ve been gobbled up by a series of different events and haven’t had a chance to come back to it.  Rather than sit on the post and lose momentum though, I’d like to throw this out for comment, suggestion, criticism, or insight into other people’s experiences.
Background
One of the ideas that came out of my latest performance review was the need to develop a communication strategy to facilitate engagement with the wider faculty community. Traditionally I’ve had little need for a …

One of the things I’m growing to treasure about my new role is the degree of trust and opportunity I’m shown on a regular basis. Not only am I asked to provide my opinion and input into matters of educational technology and online learning, I’m also sincerely listened to; and when I propose suggestions or ideas, more often than not I’m allowed to run with them.
My most recent suggestion was to organise an information session for the faculty on use of openly licensed materials (Creative Commons) as an alternative to …