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Just briefly to flip you back - way way back - before Christmas to colour and visual deficits. Click here for the original post. This is coming from some of my trying to get to grips with web and communications design. How do you really prepare graphics and websites etc. that are accessible? And, if [...]

I hope you had a delicious holiday and are having a wonderful New Year so far. If not, I hope you find ways to make it better for yourself. The year is still young at least by our calendar. I was going to say something about hope but then stopped because of a blog post [...]

So, was talking mashups but had a colour query so let’s go on a tangent briefly.
I love colours. And, around Christmas time, I love me a little theme-ing. Oh yes I do. Red and green are classics of course. But if you are colour blind it is difficult to differentiate the two. This and other [...]

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 [...]