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Demonstrating gadgets and feeds

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This is a pinboard that I have created to show how it is possible to integrate different sites and different information using Google Gadgets and RSS feeds. 

There are thousands of Google Gadgets available. Many are pretty awful, but there are some gems to be discovered at http://www.google.com/ig/directory?synd=open 

On the right of this, a clock and calendar, and some Google news. More examples are shown below.

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The widgets either side of this one show gadgets displaying Twitter feeds. I used the Gadget available at http://www.gmodules.com/ig/creator?synd=open&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhosting.gmodules.com%2Fig%2Fgadgets%2Ffile%2F101874429875337446119%2Ftwit.xml&lang=en but there are several others available that do much the same thing. 

RSS feed from jondron.org

This post asks the question, How does the order of questions in a test affects how well students do? The answer is “significantly.” The post points to a paywalled study that shows, fairly conclusively, that starting with simpler questions in a typical academic quiz (on average) improves the overall results and, in particular, the chances of getting to the end of a quiz at all.  The study includes both an experimental field study using a low-stakes quiz, and a large-scale correlational study using a PISA dataset. Some of the effect sizes are quite large: about a 50% increase in non-completions Read More
17 hours ago
Warm off the press, and with copious thanks and admiration to Junhong Xiao for the invitation to submit and the translation, here is my paper “The problematic metaphor of the environment in online learning” in Chinese, in the Journal of Open Learning. It is based on my OTESSA Journal paper, originally published as “On the Misappropriation of Spatial Metaphors in Online Learning” at the end of 2022 (a paper I am quite pleased with, though it has yet to receive any citations that I am aware of). Many thanks, too, to Junhong for sending me the printed version that arrived Read More
April 13, 2024 - 10:07am
The Intertwingled Teacher  These are the slides from my opening keynote at SITE ‘24 today, at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas. The talk was based closely on some of the main ideas in How Education Works.  I’d written an over-ambitious abstract promising answers to many questions and concerns, that I did just about cover but far too broadly. For counter balance, therefore, I tried to keep the focus on a single message – t’aint what you do, it’s the way that you do it (which is the epigraph for the book) – and, because it was Vegas,  I felt that Read More
March 26, 2024 - 4:00pm
A week or so ago, early (for me) on a Monday morning, Professor David Webster and I had a conversation about generative AI, which was recorded as the first of a podcast series on the topic, hosted by the University of Liverpool. Here is that podcast. In it we explore both the darker and the more optimistic aspects of genAI, in a pleasantly rambling discussion that, surprisingly, lasted for about an hour. I hadn’t spoken with Dave for well over a decade, at a conference in Hawaii, long before we became full professors or got elevated to loftier roles in Read More
March 18, 2024 - 5:19pm
Here is a paper from the Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education by my friend Gerald Ardito and me that presents a slightly different way of thinking about teaching and learning. We adopt a broadly complexivist stance that sees environments not as a backdrop to learning but as a rich network of dynamic, interwingled relationships between the various parts (including parts played by people), mediated through technologies, enabling and enabled by autonomy. The model that we develop knits together a smorgasbord of theories and models, including Self-Determination Theory (SDT), Connectivism, an assortment of complexity theories, the extended version of Paulsen’s model Read More
March 8, 2024 - 3:30pm
Since 2018, Terry Greene has been producing a wonderful series of podcast interviews with open and online learning researchers and practitioners called Getting Air. Prompted by the publication of How Education Works, (Terry is also responsible for the musical version of the book, so I think he likes it) this week’s episode features an interview with me. I probably should have been better prepared. Terry asked some probing, well-informed, and sometimes disarming questions, most of which led to me rambling more than I might have done if I’d thought about them in advance. It was fun, though, drifting through a Read More
February 21, 2024 - 10:13am

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The list to the right comes from an RSS feed on my home page of bookmarks to papers I have written.

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