Tag: Technology
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- Extending Proton Calendar beyond its limits
- How and why I've migrated from from Google to Proton
- Digital colonialism is where jurisdiction matters more than geography
- AGI isn't “coming” – it's already reshaping how young people think
- The uncomfortable truth about getting people off US tech
- Individual benefits, societal harms?
- Creative Commons licenses are irrevocable
- Ethical Licensing for Impact Organisations
- AI and the Future of Education
- Memorialising the TIDE Podcast
- Blogging vs newsletters
- Quickly prototyping a Career Discovery Tool
- What do we mean when we talk about 'openness' in (generative) AI?
- Ways of categorising ethical concerns relating to generative AI
- A chronological timeline of the UK Government's AI Opportunity Action Plan
- A working definition of 'AI slop'
- Exponentially more bad ideas in the world
- AI for boring project tasks
- TB871: Human gizmos and time-binding
- Painting over problems with AI in the third sector
- Exporting blog posts to JSON for easier use with LLMs such as ChatGPT
- Elysium, elites, and elision
- One does not simply move off Substack
- TB872: Meta-narrative for my systemic inquiry
- The role of endorsement in Open Badges and Open Recognition
- Handing over ownership of exercise.cafe
- The Threads dilemma: a lesson in cooperative decision-making
- The everyday essence of creativity
- Using AI to help solve Bloom's Two Sigma Problem
- Reimagining assessment practices using AI tools
- Using Snapchat's 'My AI' feature for revision
- The future of collaboration is federated
- Applying my digital literacies model to 'AI literacy'
- RetroEmoji Challenge: a simple game created using ChatGPT
- Voodoo categorisation and dynamic ontologies in the world of OER
- Building an iPod for 2023
- Defederation and governance processes
- How to CW on the Fediverse
- What does this button do? The perils of being the other side of a screen to an algorithm
- On the importance of Fediverse server rules
- The Fediverse is made up of cities, towns, and villages
- Thinking about a Fediverse instance focused on fitness / exercise
- Returning to social.coop
- Context collection, not context collapse
- Chronological social interaction
- Full Internet People
- Bonfire's latest trick shows Google+ circles came a decade early
- Some thoughts on 'home' pages for individuals within communities (and social networks)
- 5 domains I'm letting expire over the next year
- Bonfire beta
- Successfully combining home VDSL and 4G+ connections
- Videoconferencing may be a technology, but so is Sociocracy
- Documenting my attempts to replace VDSL home broadband with a 5GEE router
- A welcome corrective to narratives around the 'future of work'
- Words and meaning are two different things
- Unauditible algorithms are the enemy of social media users
- Exploring the sweet spot for Zappa project approaches to misinformation
- First version of report published sharing findings from Zappa project user research
- Some interesting findings from user research for the Zappa project (so far!)
- Countering misinformation in federated social networks: an introduction to the Zappa project
- If web3 is the financialisation of the web, then ed3 is merely the (further) financialisation of education
- Experimenting with new tools to augment my information environment
- Productive ambiguity and learning resource discovery
- EBSN podcast series on EPALE: Re-thinking Adult Basic Skills in the 21st century
- Blogging from localhost to IPFS
- Bright green, blight green, and lean green futures
- Gaming, technology, and solving problems
- Two years of spending more time in 'dark forests'
- Stick or twist? (dougbelshaw.com)
- 3 ways to gain control of your Twitter feed
- Smartwatch ramblings
- Convenience, UX, and ethics
- The problems with Twitter's attempts at anti-disinformation in the run-up to the US Presidential election
- Kettled by Big Tech?
- Domains, decentralisation, and DNS
- Change your launcher, change your life
- Fediverse field trip
- My ChromeOS apps and extensions
- Using Twitter as a lens for some thoughts on launching products
- A modest proposal for nudging young people into finding a direction in life
- A conversation with Adam Procter about Project 'NodeNoggin'
- The fate of private social networks
- How emoji triplets could help with trust and identity on decentralised social networks
- More on the mechanics of GDPR
- Destroying capitalism, one stately home at a time
- New blog: Doug, uncensored
- Decentralised technologies mean censorship-resistant websites
- Digital myths, digital pedagogy, and complexity
- My blog was without an ‘LMS isn't dead’ post, so I thought I’d write one.
- Why I've just ditched my cloud-based password manager
- Friends don't let friends use Facebook
- 3 reasons I'll not be returning to Twitter
- Some thoughts on Keybase, online security, and verification of identity
- So it turns out that you can pretty much do whatever you like on your own website
- Why I'm not using Twitter next month
- My sites are now hosted in the European Union
- Preparing for 'Story Hack'
- Safer Internet Day 2017 resources
- Experimenting with push notifications
- The Flatter Organisational Structure Of The Future
- 7 approaches to educational technology integration
- How I'm Getting Shift Done
- The importance of working 'open' in education and business
- My CC Superheroes
- Discipline in the field of edtech
- Improving the style and content of dynamicskillset.com
- Some thoughts and recommendations on the future of the Open Badges backpack and community
- Do only yogurt-knitting vegans start co-operatives?
- The Future of Work: Trends and Toolsets
- A walkthrough of 9Sharp, a new platform for personal branding [SPONSOR]
- 3 Types of EdTech Baggage: Toolsets, Mindsets, Skillsets [DML Central]
- Taking back control of the web: an easy way to host and run secure open source apps
- The Possibilities of Badges and Blockchain [DML Central]
- Why the future remains bright for Open Badges
- 5 ways to use NFC-enabled business cards
- Open Badges location extension
- The TIDE is high...
- A Decentralized System for Education and Assessment
- Taking Another Look at the Digital Credentials Landscape [DMLcentral]
- Apple product launches as attention conservation devices
- Your liberty will not survive combat drones
- Setting an Agile School Rhythm [DMLcentral]
- Claim your Advanced Kanban badge!
- The Increasing Significance of Social Media in the Learner Journey [FE Week]
- The Increasing Significance of Technology in Further Education [FE Week]
- Claim your Kanban 101 badge!
- HOWTO: Trello Kanban
- The potential of Chirp.io to send Open Badges between people and devices
- Web Literacy: what happens beyond peak centralisation and software with shareholders?
- Flying a drone through Mitford Castle window
- My Twitter ads verdict: a waste of time and money
- Experimenting with Twitter ads for my ebook
- An exciting week for Open Badges
- Why you should create canonical URLs
- The three biggest (perceived) problems with Open Badges
- HOWTO: Create a podcast
- Peering Deep into Future of Educational Credentialing [DMLcentral]
- Today In Digital Education (TIDE): a new podcast from Dai Barnes and Doug Belshaw
- An important day for the Internet
- My current Mozilla workflow: Trello, Google Mail, and GitHub
- Technological innovation and mental models
- #ScreenFreeSunday
- How do you explain the web to your kids?
- Seven places I find interesting, relevant and useful stuff in 2015
- HOWTO: use GitHub Pages to host a bootstrap-themed website
- Twitter, algorithms, and digital dystopias
- Indie Tech Summit: On raising the next generation [VIDEO]
- Open Badges: 3D printing for credentials?
- Announcing Maker Party Newcastle 2014
- FirefoxOS v2.0 is possibly the easiest-to-use smartphone operating system I've experienced
- HOWTO: Ditch Gmail for self-hosted webmail
- Reclaiming the Web for the Next Generation [DMLcentral]
- So here's the problem...
- On 'Kit Builder'
- Software with shareholders (or, the menace of private public spaces)
- Rethinking Literacy for the Web [Educating Modern Learners]
- Choose your silo (or, Why are we partying like it's 1999?)
- Bad Parenting (or, On The Meditative Nature of Screens)
- Why I still believe in badges [DMLcentral]
- On the link between Open Education and the Open Web
- More on the web as the platform
- Re-imagining the Where, When, and How of Educational Practice [DMLcentral]
- The web is the platform (or, the perils of esoteric setups)
- My iPad Mini apps (October 2013)
- Moving on from SpiderOak Hive to BTSync
- Why I'm saying goodbye to Dropbox and hello to SpiderOak Hive
- On the NSA revelations
- I am not Richard Stallman
- 5 reasons to use Open Source Software
- Privacy, the NSA and Web Literacies [DMLcentral]
- Reality check: in light of the NSA revelations, just who do we need to fear?
- I may not be subtle, but I am now @Svbtle
- What does a non-Web world look like? Investigating Bittorrent Sync.
- An Anarcho-Syndicalist critique of Web browsers
- My iPhone apps (April 2013)
- Why I
- How to ensure your blog posts last forever.
- On living in the future
- Why governments, schools and other public institutions should use Github.
- Want a tablet? Choose your vendor lock-in.
- What is 'technology' anyway?
- Using Raspberry Pi and XBMC to build an ultra-cheap HTPC.
- More thoughts on iPads and one-to-one initiatives.
- Some thoughts on iPads and one-to-one initiatives [DMLcentral]
- How I use a MacBook Pro (October 2012)
- Open Badges, Clay Shirky, and the tipping point.
- What I'm up to for Mozilla at the moment.
- Mozilla, Webmaking, and the Architecture of Participation
- Project Reclaim: a pragmatic update
- Why a 'mixed economy' of digital devices is best for your educational institution.
- A few brief thoughts on the Google Nexus 7. [REVIEW]
- Google Apps for Education UK summit [HELP REQUIRED]
- How to implement technology successfully in your organisation.
- Mac OSX Mountain Lion 10.8: vendor lock-in for the masses?
- HOWTO: Issue #openbadges in 5 steps using WordPress + WPBadger
- Lesson plans, social bookmarking and the purpose of education: a response to the latest Hack Education podcast
- S2R reporters interview me about #openbadges at #MozLDN
- Getting up to speed on the technical side of #openbadges
- #OpenBadges through the rear-view mirror?
- Join me at #MozParty Newcastle on 21st July 2012! [EVENT]
- On the Importance of Webmaking [DMLcentral]
- Commodification, consumerism and the new 'Retina' MacBook Pro.
- Web literacies? (v0.2 beta)
- Displaying #OpenBadges with BadgeWidgetHack.
- Zen and the Art of Digital Literacies (#EdTech12)
- Examining conceptions of innovation in educational technology [INTERVIEW]
- More on P2PU's School of Webcraft
- Project Reclaim: consolidating my blogs.
- 3 principles for a more Open approach.
- Platforms as standards? 10 days with the Nokia N9.
- Beyond Elegant Consumption.
- On the new politics of technology.
- Education: it's what you can't see that counts.
- Twitter, TweetBot and Custom API endpoints
- Robots: the elephant(s) in the room?
- Stop SOPA.
- Why we need open, distributed social networks.
- [INCOMING] #BelshawBlackOps11
- On the importance of human agency.
- What did we learn during a 'semester of learning' on #openbadges over at P2PU.org?
- 7 upcoming events about which I'm super-excited.
- 'Badges' for Lifelong Learning: Reframing the Debate (#openbadges, #dmlbadges)
- Launch of the Mobile Learning infoKit
- JOIN US! A semester of learning about Open Badges and assessment.
- Semester of Learning: Open Badges and assessment
- The Setup.
- Purpos/ed, the #neverendingthesis and productivity [Ed Tech Crew podcast 165]
- Project Reclaim: backing up to local network storage
- Giving my visitors some (virtual, P2P) cash.
- Quick overview: iA's Writer app
- The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies (#digilit)
- How I Use a MacBook Pro (May 2011)
- How to teach using mobile devices
- Epistemic games and situated learning.
- 5 free, web-based tools to help you be a kick-ass researcher.
- My favourite quotations from 'Teaching with the Tools Kids Really Use'
- Exploring Mobile: Considerations and Opportunities
- Mobile phone ban? #govephonehome
- mobiMOOC: 2 April - 14 May 2011
- Revolutionary tools do not a revolution make.
- Web apps and workflows
- Using Digital Media to Improve Teaching and Learning
- Feeding back.
- Feed me! Feed me NOW!
- Less shiny.
- HOWTO: Create a clickable tag cloud using Tagul
- The perils of shiny shiny educational technology.
- Why everyone should learn a little History and Philosophy.
- Things I Learned This Week #50
- Things I Learned This Week - #49
- JISC Mobile and Wireless Technologies Review
- Dell Latitude 2110: a review.
- Things I Learned This Week - #48
- Things I Learned This Week - #47
- Things I Learned This Week - #46
- The Mobile Learning Edge: Tools and Technologies for Developing Your Teams [Review]
- Things I Learned This Week - #45
- The best blog posts I've ever written, by category.
- Things I Learned This Week - #44
- Things I Learned This Week - #43
- Edtech companies: inspiring or conspiring?
- Notifo: a notifications inbox
- Things I Learned This Week - #42
- Things I Learned This Week - #41
- Weeknote #22
- Things I Learned This Week - #40
- Things I Learned This Week - #39
- 5 things it's currently fashionable to say (without much evidence)
- Why I've turned off GMail Priority Inbox
- What goes into my conference bag?
- Is now a good time to get an iPad?
- Things I Learned This Week - #38
- HOWTO: Use Evernote to take notes on books.
- Things I Learned This Week - #37
- A response to Donald Clark's #altc2010 keynote
- The 3 most important things I learned at ALT-C 2010
- 5 things I can do with my Kindle that you can't with your dead-tree books.
- Your anti-ebook rhetoric is like a broken record.
- Things I Learned This Week - #36
- 10 reasons I like reading ebooks more than paper books.
- Greplin: potential solver of a huge problem?
- Go to conferences? Use Lanyrd.
- Things I Learned This Week - #35
- Let me tell you what I think 'this' is.
- I sync therefore I am.
- Embedding a live Twitter search in Keynote 09
- Things I Learned This Week - #34
- Education Eye: an RSS reader for those who don't feed-read...
- Things I Learned This Week - #33
- New metaphors and symbols required!
- Google Apps Marketplace: apps worth installing
- Things I Learned This Week - #32
- Write lots? Buy this.
- Why I'm not the Wizard of Oz
- The freeze-thaw method of technology integration.
- Google Knol: the future of academic journals?
- Things I Learned This Week - #31
- The sublime and the ridiculous.
- Google Earth for #GTAUK
- Google Apps (Education Edition) vs. Microsoft Live@Edu
- Things I Learned This Week - #30
- Intention vs. Effect
- Things I Learned This Week - #29
- Things I Learned This Week - #28
- #GTAUK: Google Earth wiki & ebook
- A life in my technological day.
- Things I Learned This Week - #27
- Why do we use technology?
- Things I Learned This Week - #26
- Hands-on with the Dell Streak.
- Things I Learned This Week - #25
- HOWTO: Google Scholar email alerts
- ...and 5 reasons why I bought a Dell Streak again.
- Things I Learned This Week - #24
- 10 reasons I returned my Dell Streak today.
- (In)decisive Doug, the Dell Streak and iPhone 4.
- Things I Learned This Week - #23
- 5 genuinely useful Twitter tools.
- The future of mobile is open and smart.
- Things I Learned This Week - #22
- My bMoble TeachMeet presentation
- Twitter is not the best CPD you've ever received.
- 5 reasons I'm using less and less Open Source stuff.
- Things I Learned This Week - #21
- Battery life: iPhone 3GS vs Google Nexus One vs HTC Desire
- Why Open Source should be more like Fairtrade.
- Things I Learned This Week - #20
- Design and the 5 Golden Rules of Technology purchases.
- How to use Netvibes as a project management hub.
- Things I Learned This Week - #19
- A short note on syndication
- Google Wave: now with added usefulness.
- Things I Learned This Week - #18
- 3 online tools I'm using to increase my work-related productivity
- Things I Learned This Week - #17
- Using a Sony Reader PRS-600 to make notes on academic articles.
- Things I Learned This Week - #16
- Why I'm using iPREDator now the Digital Economy Bill has been passed
- HOWTO: Productively hack your workday.
- Things I Learned This Week - #15
- The ultra-paranoid guide to ensuring you've got your presentation slides.
- Some reflections on the organization of #BectaX
- Things I Learned This Week - #14
- Music I'm running to at the moment,
- Learning Score, a lesson-planning tool. [Review]
- Things I Learned This Week - #13
- A partial review of 'The Hyperlinked Society'
- How to move forward with Open Source: a teacher's perspective
- Things I Learned This Week - #12
- Things I Learned This Week - #11
- HOWTO: Create iTunes audiobooks from MP3s
- Things I Learned This Week - #10
- Get that cool Google-style 'reveal' effect on your site.
- Alternatives to Google
- Things I learned this week - #8
- iPhone apps I currently use.
- Things I learned this week - #7
- Google Buzz is not a Twitter-killer.
- Some considerations regarding ebook readers for academics.
- A quick way to add a 'sparkline' to your blog.
- Things I learned this week - #5
- Things I learned this week - #4
- BumpTop: 'interesting' or genuinely useful?
- Learning Score
- Things I learned this week - #3
- Things I learned this week - #2
- Off-site and cloud-based backup: my solution.
- Mac OSX apps I currently use.
- #movemeon book now available!
- Google: excellence and diversity?
- How I deal with email.
- Hyperlocality and iterating towards 2.0
- My digital reading workflow.
- A non-Luddite rebuttal of technology integration?
- #eduhivefive (a suggestion).
- The problem with free stuff.
- E-safety: the 'googleability test' (a suggestion).
- Social media, open standards & curmudgeonliness.
- 10 things people like me want for Christmas.
- My #TMETRU09 presentation: #movemeon & CPD via Twitter
- A useful way to categorise educational technologies.
- #movemeon - a suggestion.
- 12 educational ways of using 12seconds.tv
- Got a blog? Do this simple thing to boost your readership.
- Why Ewan McIntosh *was* (partly) wrong.
- How to restore a very large MySQL file without errors.
- Where we're headed with the Academy's E-Learning ecosystem.
- 3 ways Google Wave could be used in the classroom.
- Has Wordpress-powered P2 left me 'more organized and productive'?
- Sign up for TeachMeet ETRU edition 09!
- On the important difference between hitchhiking and bandwagon-jumping.
- E-Learning Strategy Overview (a.k.a. my 3-year plan)
- Heuristical Templates (or, how to review elearning stuff in a way that benefits others)
- A video introduction to using Google Calendar for timetables and meetings
- Why I'm trying to make myself redundant.
- Join us for EdTechRoundUp 2009/10!
- HOWTO: Tether an iPhone to a netbook running Jolicloud
- Meeting with Ed.D. thesis supervisor: 'aspirational naming,' hegemonic power and finishing early?
- Jolicloud: my first impressions of the 'cool new [social] OS for your netbook'
- Which is the best netbook operating system?
- The importance of heuristics in educational technology and elearning.
- HOWTO: Present using Cooliris (advanced)
- Pure gold nuggets from Shirky
- HOWTO: Present using Cooliris (the basics...)
- Raising achievement in History at KS4 using e-learning
- Open Source Schools - Open Source Software: an overview
- Digital Literacy and the 'Digital Society'
- Why (educational) technology?
- What are the 'functional specifications' of a VLE that drive real learning?
- Looking to the future of education: learning spaces and mobile devices
- HOWTO: Make yourself more visible online by building a Google Profile
- The Big E-Learning Questions
- How E-Learning can contribute to raising achievement
- HOWTO: Present full-screen using Prezi and an Apple Remote [OSX]
- The evolution of EdTechRoundUp
- Open Source Schools curriculum meeting
- Digital things upon which I *do* and *would* spend real cash.
- HOWTO: Add an RSS feed to Google Sites
- My Computing History
- Safeguarding: the next step in the transition to Web 3.0?
- BETT 2009, TeachMeet & and iPhone misfortunes
- elearnr: what have I been up to?
- Wanna buy my Macbook?
- The Simpsons 'do' Apple...
- Interesting Ways to use Netbooks in the Classroom
- Functionally and aesthetically-speaking: Asus Eee 1000 vs. Advent 4211
- First photos with my new Canon 1000D digital SLR
- What does it take to build a community?
- 3 ways to prevent being 'unfollowed' on Twitter
- Digital Permanence: Death & Data
- Why as an educator you should care about Open Source Software
- 90% digital, or 12 ways my teaching ecosystem is evolving.
- elearnr - new blog for a new role!
- The feature that will make Posterous better than Edublogs is...
- 3 reasons I returned my iPhone 3G
- edte.ch barnraising: get involved in forming a community!
- The Never-ending (Gadget) Story... the Advent 4211
- I want educational technology to be boring.
- Introducing TweetMeet
- AUP 2.0
- Porn in every school? or Why filtering will soon be irrelevant.
- I've sold my Asus Eee 4G. What now?
- What is a VLE?
- Creating an Interactive Whiteboard using a Nintendo WiiMote
- Towards a forward-thinking Acceptable Use Policy for mobile devices
- We have a winner!
- Wixi: a bizarre yet useful free file-sharing / web-desktop hybrid
- New Asus eee user? Read this!
- Eee-aye, eee-aye, eee-aye... oh.
- EdTechRoundup 3 featuring Yours Truly
- AppleTV? Pah!
- Recommend me 3
- Google Apps proposal
- Sync any type of video (DivX, Xvid, etc.) with an AppleTV
- Edmodo: Twitter for education?
- Google Sites - wikis for Google Apps users!
- (Google) Talk to me!
- Don't miss Stephen Fry's blog and podcast
- THIS is how technology can enhance learning
- 3 strikes and then out for UK 'illegal' downloaders?
- Hacking an AppleTV v1.1
- How to turn your Nokia phone into a wireless hotspot
- EdTechRoundup: Episode 2
- Animoto rocks! Here's proof...
- 3 reasons the majority of students are NOT 'digitally literate'
- Pimp your 5g iPod Video to look like an iPod Touch
- Page Peel Script
- EdTechRoundup podcasts are go!
- Mac OSX: changing spots back to stripes
- Reflections on BETT 2008
- How to upgrade your Nokia N95 to v12.x firmware and make it a whole lot better
- Lost my contacts
- Phew! So it's not ADHD...
- PVR comparison and roundup
- Amazon MP3 launches, not for UK
- Google Phone
- HOWTO: Nintendo DS & Orange Livebox
- How to get a GPS fix quicker on the Nokia N95
- NESTA 'Hidden Innovation' report
- Twitter Screensaver
- Apple iPhone vs Nokia N95
- HOWTO: fix your Xbox after messing about with the EEPROM
- Getting GPS working for Nokia Sports Tracker on the N95
- How NOT to upgrade your Xbox
- Nokia N95 tips, reviews and software all in one place
- My first GPS-tracked run
- Nokia N95: the solution to problems I didn't even know I had...
- Lenovo 3000 N100 and Windows Vista
- Geekifying my run
- Picasa Web Albums vs. Flickr
- Return of the Mac
- Macbook vs. my new laptop? No contest...
- The BBC are Twittering
- Macbook woes