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Hi Matt, we just wanted to let you know we had discovered that our number was set to Isle of Man. We rolled out a real UK number last December. Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience. More information is available on our blog--which this site won't allow me to attach. But if you google: "Poll everywhere UK blog" the first result is a blog post with more information. Warm regards, Poll Everywhere

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 18:58:44 +0000

Thank you! Link to UK Local Number for anyone reading & I will publicise elsewhere.

Two Learning Technology Vacancies

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 11:36:29 +0000

We have two vacancies for Educational Technologists at City University London.

Educational Technologist (x2)

Ref: 60012516
Contract: Full-time, Permanent.
Salary range: £34,223 - £39,649
Closing date: 18^th January, 2013.

Both posts are based in Academic Schools within the university:

1 in the School of Engineering & Mathematical Sciences (Technology & Educational Development team http://blogs.city.ac.uk/ted/)
1 in the School of Arts & Social Sciences (Education Support Team, http://estsass.co.uk/)

Full details, job description & online application: http://bit.ly/108c9WA

Polleverywhere UK SMS Warning

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 10:01:00 +0100

Update (2013): Poll Everywhere have resolved this

See New UK Local Number

Three customers beware when using PollEverywhere!

Polleverywhere is audience response tool. I’ve used it a few times & this year City are piloting a campus licence. Participants can respond to polls via the web, twitter or SMS. About PollEverywhere

My colleagues in the School of Social Sciences & Arts have just highlighted a hidden charge spotted by one of their lecturers.

Usually participants using SMS are charged one standard text which, in practice for most people means free (because of bundled texts on contracts) but as others still PAYG I’ve always been careful to highlight this when I’ve used the tool.

It turns out that the telephone number used by PollEverywhere is an Isle of Man mobile number (it begins 07624). The Three mobile network treat the Isle of an as an International location, so anyone on Three responding to a Polleverywhere poll via SMS is charged for an international text 25/26p.

Polleverwhere are aware of this and are looking into changing the UK number… but I imagine this will be a significant undertaking and therefore a while coming…

My blog posts are like buses

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:27:06 +0000

.. nothing for ages (7-months) then three in 3-days :)

By freeing our journal from the ghetto of academic library subscriptions we will foster discussion and impact (on LSE Impact Blog)

BarCamps, DIY Moodle & Digital Pens (on still-being-built new team TED blog)

Open Access Journal & Academic Magazines (on my own Reluctant Technologist blog)

#M25ltg Notes

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:54:00 +0000

Brief Notes from 8/3/2012 #m25ltg at QMUL

HEA Travel Fund - get travel to UK conferences paid for by HEA
UCISA Engaging hearts and minds - cases studies for engaging staff with TEL http://www.ucisa.ac.uk/publications/engaging.aspx
Paul Lowe introduced Barcamps - Community of practice…Nobody’s as clever as everybody… etc etc Paul then led mini 30-min barcamp with 3 x 3 sessions. Very successful. We already host some for students. Place for using them with staff? Part of T&L event?
(Would all conferences benefit from a barcamp-style session at them, in addition to the more formal peer-reviewed sessions?)
Tim Neuman explained process he has undertaken for review of web conferencing tools for BLE. Very thorough. Interesting to see that video was relatively low on priorities of users, fits with my (limited) LSE experience.
Kris Roger introduced Cloud LMSs - VLEs, hosted in ‘cloud’, setup by individual teachers, more modern usable UIs e.g. Coursekit, Piazza, Instructure Canvas
Digital pens - Colin & Hendrik showed examples of digital pens including LiveScribe which also records audio. pen & special paper a bit pricey but produces PDFs with embedded audio.

In the pub after M25 I demo’ed bambuser for all of...

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:49:00 +0000

In the pub after M25 I demo’ed bambuser for all of 15-seconds… but it worked! This was a live broadcast from my phone to here: http://bambuser.com/v/2453121

#Muggl Notes

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:50:29 +0000

A few notes from 2nd London Moodle Users Group (#muggl)… although some may be from m25ltg… all a blur.

Other institutions Moodle 2 implementations / testing /training plans etc seem to be progressing well. A few niggles, unresolved bugs but only as you would expect.
Sussex also holding off until 2013/4. There are definite advantages in our (City’s) timeline & we will really benefit from all the work others are doing ahead of us :)
Navigation (block & breadcrumbs) are a concern and a potential area staff might get frustrated by. Again, the kind of thing earlier adopters will have worked thru’…
Matt Jenner (UCL) showed a great Moodle support site he has developed: includes FAQs. Not public yet but as with Bath Uni all the content is available for re-use. They have used Confluence but it’s the content, it’s organisation & process for updating, not the tool that is key. (of course tool must be fit-for-purpose).
Moodle 2 mobile theme (shown in LSE hands-on) nice and clean. Still not perfect but taking a quiz was easy (enrolling was not). Lack of mobile themes a downside for keeping 1.9 in 2012/3.
Training for ‘moving to moodle’: Important to offer but I’m still not convinced masses of f-2-f will needed, especially if navigation is done well. File management potential area of concern although at Goldsmiths (already 6-months into using M2) it hasn’t been an issue (nor was it in my one training session at LSE last Nov!). I still think files in M2 is a selling point.

Programme for #m25ltg Meeting

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:07:58 +0000

Weds 23rd Nov is a an M25 Learning Technology Group meeting. Fully booked, 60 attending! Great line up:

Exploring the usefulness of e-book readers for academic staff
Hendrik van der Sluis, Kingston University

Setting lecture capture free: creating short screencasts using Echo360
John Davies, University of Sussex

VLE Watch
Mimi Weiss Johnson, Imperial College; Rose Heaney, UEL; Sarah Sherman, BLE

Future of Learning Technologists - Discussion
Leonard Houx, CIPD; Matt Lingard, LSE

How we use WordPress
Tony Coombs, University of Greenwich
Gill Ritchie, QMUL
Kate Reader, City University
Mike Kelly, University of the Arts
Plus one more

Finding your Twitter RSS feed

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:34:00 +0100

Updated 19th October 2012

Method below no longer works. But this does: http://www.labnol.org/internet/rss-feeds-directory/21242/ However Twitter one doesn’t seem to work in WordPress RSS widget.

Updated 31st October 2011

Much easier method via @LTNottingham

Find out your Twitter numeric ID (you can do this by entering a Twitter username at idfromuser

Add it into the following URL (replace the Xs)
http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/XXXXXXX.rss

From: http://comms.nottingham.ac.uk/learningtechnology/2011/10/31/how-to-find-your-twitter-rss-feed-url/

Original post / workaround

Shouldn’t be this difficult… I wish all those web2 kids would stop messing with the great tools they created… (see previous post)

Thanks to Issac Hepworth via Stay ‘N Alive for this:

Finding your Twitter Timeline RSS feed Add your standard Twitter URL (e.g. http://twitter.com/mattlingard) to “Add Subscription” in Google Reader which will auto discover the feed URL. You can then see it via Manage Subscriptions. For the above account it is http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/14434363.rss

There may well be an easier way… anyone?

Delicious fail

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:42:16 +0100

While i understand the need for Beta - if you’re this far from being ready, don’t launch.

From Delicious FAQs

Below is a list of features that are still being worked on:

Edit Network: We have ability to add/remove users, but do not currently support nicknames

Edit Network Bundles: We will migrate existing bundles, but not initially have support for editing network bundles

Set Network Privacy: We retain existing settings, but do not have an option to change at launch.

Rename Tags

Delete Tags

Edit Tag Descriptions

Edit Subscriptions

Edit Subscription Bundles

Delete People

Network Badges

Link Rolls: we will support existing link rolls via feeds

Tag Rolls : we will support existing tag rolls via feeds

Blog Posting: we will support existing blog post jobs

Forums: we are evaluating options

“My Tags” Page Example: http://www.delicious.com/tags/

“Explore Tags” Page: http://www.delicious.com/tag/

Follow /[user]/[tag]

Post saved links to Twitter

@francesbell - feed of feeds

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 12:50:02 +0100

Hi Frances,

I can add your blog to the feed of feeds but first I need an altc2011 specific feed. You need to add your post(s) to either a category or tag that’s specific to the conference. Most people have been using altc2011 but it actually doesn’t matter what the tag/category is, just that it’s used only on the conference related posts..

This what I need, either

Category: http://mattlingard.wordpress.com/category/altc2011/feed/

Tag: http://mattlingard.wordpress.com/tag/altc2011/feed/

and you add the tag/category to relevant posts

Accreditation, CMALT & UKPSF

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:38:35 +0100

In relation to the ALT Trustees election, I’ve just been asked by @lawrie “Where do you stand on accreditation, CMALT and UKPSF?”.

Honest answer Lawrie: I don’t have a position on this, as it’s not something I’ve come across & had to consider. I’ve clearly got a lot to learn.

I know what CMALT is but I’ll have to admit that the HEA UK Professional Standards Framework (UKPSF) is a new one for me. (Assuming I picked the right acronym here - the UK Paintball Sports Federation nabbed top spot in Google :)).

I’d be very interested to hear more. Anyone? Presumably, for there to be a position to take on this, there must be some sort of debate in progress…

In terms of vote Matt, what can I say? I’ll bring a fresh perspective to the issues.

Twitterfountain

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 14:29:00 +0100

I’m looking for a visual tool for us to display in lecture theatres between sessions at ALT-C & just came across Twitter Fountain

It looks great. The example below is using images from Flickr, Picasa & TwitPic tagged “altc2010” & tweets tagged “#LSE”.

You can play with colours, speeds and so on

Example Twitter Fountain: http://thefounta.in/RCcFj

Better version from@jamesclay:http://t.co/XSnnQPy

Comments? Any other tools?

Embedded version

James’ version

Vote Matt for @A_L_T Trustee!

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 14:44:40 +0100

I am standing for election to become a Trustee of ALT & a place on the Central Executive Committee.

How you can help

If you have a vote please use it wisely ;)

The election is open to all ALT individual members.
If you work at a member organisation then someone somewhere will have a vote as the organisational representative. Track them down!

I was nominated by Steve Ryan and seconded by @johnnigelcook. I had to write an election address:

If elected to the Central Executive Committee my focus would be to:

increase opportunities for our members to network and share best practice;

ensure we continue to develop our own use of web technologies & the open web;

encourage more of our members to contribute to the work of ALT.

I offer the perspective of a grassroots learning technologist:

I work with staff in higher education on a daily basis: supporting, explaining, questioning & disseminating good practice on the use of technology in education.

I’m an active member of the global educational technology community.

I’m an enthusiastic user of social media providing expertise on the use of blogging & social media in education both within and outside my institution.

I have been working in the education sector for 18 years and in HE learning technology roles for the last 10 years. I am a Governor at my local primary school and was previously an elected member of the Academic Board at London Metropolitan University.

I’m a member of the ALT Publications Committee and have been on the Programme Committees for both ALT-C 2010 & 2011.

Recording external meetings etc

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:02:45 +0100

@BLE1 why not go for something in between - longer but still short posts with a few more details than a tweet allows. You’ve got me thinking I should use this Tumblr account for that very thing. Maybe I will. Although my travels aren’t as varied and interesting as yours I’m sure.

Hey, perhaps we could have a shared edtech travels journal!

Wordpress Flickr Plugin with CC Licence

Fri, 27 May 2011 14:38:00 +0100

From WordPress jiscmail list:

The Triton project at the University of Oxford (OER phase 2) has
devised and developed two plugins to help users add flickr pictures to
their WordPress content.

One plugin is very simple, and only gets CC-BY pictures
(http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/flickr-picture-find-and-attribute/)
and the other is more powerful and gets any license you’d like
(http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/flickr-picture-find-and-attribute-advanced/).
The distinction being that some users may only want the minimal
license so as to not contradict their own CC license, and making the
simple plugin goes some way to guaranteeing that the user can include
pictures without worrying about copyright.

Allow iframe in WordPress Blog posts

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:59:35 +0000

This is for self-hosted blogs NOT wordpress.com

There are plenty of plugins, for example Embed iframe
I don’t know if it works for all themes, but my colleague did a code edit which worked on our wp site (our theme is based on Twenty Ten theme)

Add the following lines to “functions.php” in your theme:

// Allow IFRAME, so you can use some embed code supplied by, e.g. Google $allowedposttags[“iframe”] = array(

        “src” => array(),

        “height” => array(),

        “width” => array()

);

Live from Tahrir Square From:...

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:42:00 +0000

Live from Tahrir Square

From: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/systems-test

Will Google Take Any Higher Ed Risks? From:...

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 08:49:47 +0000

Will Google Take Any Higher Ed Risks?

From: http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology_and_learning/will_google_take_any_higher_ed_risks

Google adds Education category to its Apps Marketplace with a Blackboard App on the cards

This is a test recording of a Skype call using the free MP3...

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:30:24 +0000

This is a test recording of a Skype call using the free MP3 Skype Recorder from http://voipcallrecording.com/ which @KrisEdTech found. I’m chatting with my good friend: Skype Call Testing Service :)