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Podcast: How (and when) to teach your kids about money

This is my first attempt at a Podcast, which I did for a client who is setting up a website for parents looking for useful and entertaining content related to their kids. For this Podcast I interviewed Martha Lawton, of Lawton Training and Consultancy, an expert in getting people out of debt and into good financial [...]

November 23rd, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Podcasts, teaching, technology, work | Leave a comment

Intimate Internet Radio

It’s been an ambition of mine to host an occasional evening chat-based radio station for, oh, at least ten years now. Looking around, I see that technology has now just about made this possible, so I’m feeling the urge to do something about it, especially as quite a few folks on Twitter seems to be doing [...]

September 28th, 2009 | Category: social media, technology | 8 comments

Digital identity

I met @3djamie at the #twee8 Hackney tweetup last Wednesday and met up with him again yesterday to have a chat, seeing as we both work in eLearning. I’ve found tweet ups to be great for networking with people in my field who have useful ideas and contacts, as well as being an excellent way to [...]

August 12th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: social media, technology, work | 5 comments

Twitter: The Honeymoon is over

I’ve been using Twitter less and less lately, and my enthusiasm for it has waned to almost zero. I’ve been reading articles about the Twitter backlash. They seem to be suggesting that existing users are turning against Twitter because it is being flooded by hordes of new users sputtering endless inane commentary. I’m not sure how [...]

March 31st, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: social media, technology | 12 comments

Class Dynamics

I’ve spent a fair portion of the past week observing classes in the schools where the materials I’ll be editing will be used. The schools are extremely swish looking, but the classroom materials they use (PowerPoint presentations) are clunky and don’t match with the online course the students follow at home and in the language labs.

‘Check [...]

November 3rd, 2008 | Tags: , , | Category: elearning, teaching, technology | One comment

Why bookworms should date geeks

Excellent post about intellectual property and why certain leviathans of the publishing industry are light years behind others in terms of the way they think about copyright.

I’ve been wondering just why it is that people who write software are more likely to embrace the open source mentality than people who write ‘text’ books. When you get [...]

October 18th, 2008 | Tags: , | Category: elearning, publishing, technology, work | One comment

Back to school

Today I took the somewhat disorienting step of going back to my former primary school. Disorienting because it’s no longer in the same building, but about quarter of a mile away from the original location in a brand spanking new, purpose-built complex that includes a community centre and post office. Also disorienting because, although I haven’t [...]

October 10th, 2008 | Tags: , | Category: elearning, teaching, technology, work | 13 comments

Kindle swindle

I’ve been avoiding the Kindle for a while. Not sure why – I really should try and get to grips with such technology, seeing as it’s been about to revolutionise my industry for, oh, about six or seven years now.

I’m really not sure why I dislike e-book readers. I’ve happily junked all my tapes and [...]

October 1st, 2008 | Tags: , , | Category: elearning, publishing, technology, work | One comment

Push-button publishing

This morning I didn’t have a logo or a website.

Now I have both.

Thanks to the lovely J for pointing me in the direction of Squarespace. Quite honestly, after using this site, I fail to understand why anyone would pay someone else to build their website. For all small businesses and sole traders this is an absolutely [...]

September 13th, 2008 | Tags: , | Category: publishing, technology, work | Leave a comment

Blog does not exist

It only took 40 minutes, but I managed to insert the html for the Facebook blog networks app into the xml for this blog. Never mind that it doesn’t quite display properly, or that the link takes you to a nasty sign that says ‘blog does not exist’; considering I haven’t done any coding since, ooh, [...]

September 11th, 2008 | Tags: , | Category: technology | One comment