Good Practice Blog

I’ve been reading two very different books today: Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis and  Finding Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. At least they seem different on the surface, yet both are about how you find meaning and motivation and passion in and what you do. This seemed an excellent thing to ponder at the [...]

Today I want to talk mashing: mainly mash-ups to be precise. There are a couple definitions. Well, probably lots of different ones. Essentially, you take two different (almost paradoxically different things) and mesh them together to form one never-before-thought-about unique creation! Da daaaa! Increasingly this is being done with software (if this hurts your brain, [...]

The University of Sheffield has been increasingly YouTubing it over the past year. Many of you will be aware of the “Dream Bigger Dreams” video and campaign. This is the “official” video:

There are videos that the University has asked students to make about their experiences here. One of the most recent was the “Sheffield Made [...]

Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms by Will Richardson covers exactly what it says on the cover. It is written for an American secondary school market. For some books, this is a major problem. However, I did not find this to be the case with Richardson’s book. His style of writing [...]

Yesterday I began a review of Diana Laurillard’s book Rethinking University Teaching: a framework for the effective use of learning technologies.
To read the Part 1 of the review of this book, go here.  It began with her theory of how education works best (especially with regards to undergraduate learning).
Diana Laurillard currently holds the Chair of [...]