AJCann

Good. Time for universities to focus on the core business – education. Let’s hope any future developments are sensible enough to take an Open Access approach and adopt new technologies rather than echoing the publishing failures of the past. - AJCann from Bookmarklet

Sigh. My own attempts to combat information overload with dashboards haven't been very successful, but this looks like a promising approach. I'd like to see desktop systems with this sort of option. - AJCann from Bookmarklet

"And getting slower. Or maybe it just feels that way." - AJCann

"Apparently, it is possible, by ignoring the warnings and clicking through - http://www.appsafari.com/chat...... - (not tried it though). A better method may be the iPhone-iPod Waveboard client: http://www.getwaveboard.com/" - AJCann

#nuttsack - AJCann from Bookmarklet

"I don't "care" in a theoretical sense, although it does raise some practical issues. I'm not particularly convinced the "VLE as a hub" metaphor is very accurate, the time-honoured "VLE as a filing cabinet" works better, especially as that's how everyone uses it. For those reasons, I'm headed in the FriendFeed direction. Paradoxically, I'm getting more email traffic from students this year than for a long time (which is a pain as it's much more labour-intensive to deal with then other channels). However, little of it is coming through the institutional service, it's coming from a plethora of online services. They also expect realtime replies, even when they email me late at night!" - AJCann

Sigh. Echoes of #nuttsack - evidence alone is not enough. - AJCann from Bookmarklet

Interesting hypothesis there at the end - and a very valid question! - Björn Brembs

I'd like this, but it's just depressing - Anna Croft

"An update is a FF entry, either object-oriented or just typed in. I intend to point them at live FF examples from my FF teaching account. What is reflection? Well, that's the big one, isn't it." - AJCann

Microsoft Live@Edu versus Google Apps for Education. - AJCann from Bookmarklet

The OU will shortly be taking a decision about whether to deploy Google Apps or Microsoft Live@edu. Please make the right choice! - AJCann from Bookmarklet

"I agree, we all skim read, but I don't think that's the problem here. They've decided that they don't need/want to read the instructions. It's the same problem as getting people to read an instruction manual - they won't do it until after they have failed. Stuff these days is supposed to "just work". Education isn't necessarily like that." - AJCann

LOL - Graham Steel