No time for blogging properly at the mo – too much crappy crap “work” crappy crap to do – but looking through some recent comments on WriteToReply just now, I saw this one: a trackback from a blog post – Money Programme – Media Revolution: Tomorrow’s TV – that reviews a recent episode of the … Continue reading “Teaching Round the Issues on WriteToReply”
Last week it was a present for the beta junkies (“BBC iPlayer Desktop Application“), this week Auntie Beeb has a present for the kids: CBBC iPlayer (announced here: CBBC iPlayer press release; a good discussion about the rationale for why there is a need for such a thing can be found here: New CBBC iPlayer … Continue reading “CBeebies iPlayer, and Why I Think an OU iPlayer Presence Would be a “Good Thing””
So with iPlayer hitting 1 year old last week “iPlayer Day: A year under the hood”), it’s great to see that there is now a cross-platform iPlayer downloader available (albeit as a beta) from the BBC iPlayer Labs (download the BBC iPlayer Desktop here) – a BBC news story about the release is available atBBC … Continue reading “BBC iPlayer Desktop Application”
Another day, another OU web play… Realising that the OU on iTunesU presence has its downside (specifically – having to use iTunes), you can now get hold of OU “enhanced podcasts” from the OU Podcasts (beta) site. The architecture of the site borrows heavily from the OU Youtube presence, offering Learn, Research and Life options … Continue reading “OU Podcasts Site Goes Live”
Earlier this week, the OU quietly opened up its new social site – Platform – with a mailing going out today to inform students and alumni about it’s availability… …and at first sight, it’s looking really good: As a distance learning institution, our students potentially miss out on the sense of community that you get … Continue reading “OU Goes Social with “Platform””
A tweet from Scott Leslie on Saturday alerted me to the fact he had a major post brewing… And here it is: Planning to Share versus Just Sharing. Do yourself a favour and go and read it now… Then come back and finish reading this post… or not… but read that one… Here’s the link … Continue reading “Can SocialLearn Be Built As Such? Plus an OU Jobs RoundUp”
Having a quick look at the new BBC Music and BBC Artist pages that have been getting a lot of mentions this week, I noticed (again?!) that it’s possible to officially embed at least some iPlayer videos now: So for example, here’s clip of Foals from the BBC Introducing stage at the Bestival last year … Continue reading “Embedding BBC iPlayer Music Videos – Foals”
Catching up with The Night Manager a couple of days ago, I was slightly creeped out (maybe because I thought he was going to be discovered!) by a scene where the eponymous lead has an iris scan taken via a phone app as part of a biometric authentication protocol. A later scene uses the scan via an app on … Continue reading “Creepy ID”
Over the course of the weekend, rummaging through old boxes of books as part of a loft clearout, I came across more than a few OU textbooks and course books. Way back when, OU course materials were largely distributed in the form of print items and hard media – audio and video cassettes, CD- and … Continue reading “A Loss of Sovereignty?”
A handful of posts caught my attention yesterday around the whole data thang… First up, a quote on the New Aesthetic blog: “the state-of-the-art method for shaping ideas is not to coerce overtly but to seduce covertly, from a foundation of knowledge”, referencing an article on Medium: Is the Internet good or bad? Yes. The … Continue reading “A Nudge Here, A Nudge There, But With Meaning..”
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