Bruce Spear

Call for Papers: Beyond Moodle

Call for Papers: Beyond Moodle

Blogging and Mobile Way, Way Beyond Blackboard, Moodle & Co von Bruce Spear I would like to talk about how the tremendous advances in web literacy and the consumerization of IT, modern sophisticated workplace communications, web design (over engineering), mobile...

More Signal, Less Noise

Google worries about delays of more than 400ms, not least because the more we click, the more they know, and the more they know, the faster they will lead us into their trap.  Google’s business model is to push our buttons so will will click their buttons: to figure...

Evernote and 3rd Generation eLearning

Students finding immediate, useful rewards in their use of web technologies are far more likely to explore them further than those suffering bad experiences. Students appreciate technologies they can use every day to help them solve their pressing tasks, put their...

Responsive, Mobile-Ready WordPress

We want to make it easy for ourselves to connect to each other, and as so many of us are now using tablets and mobile phones, connecting more often in the day, now is probably a good time to choose better, "responsive" Wordpress themes. More and more mobile Reports...

Creating Relevant, Timely Web Learning Activities

I'm trying to figure out how best to create relevant, timely web learning activities for the students in my various classes, and just hours after publishing a detailed assignment designed to help my students create a web- and group-based workflow on our Business...

Youtube, Kids, Creativity

I'm completely grateful to TED for having put Sir Ken Robinson's talk online line, because it provides me with the perfect intellectual framework to wrap up this completely wonderful video, the PS 22 Chorus sings "Landslide", which should need no excuse for sharing....

How We Twitter

I feel completely shameless posting here a link to my new blog post, How We Twitter, but it's about how my students at the FHW have learned how to use Twitter to their advantage, how I finally figured out a way to evaluate the use of Twitter in a classroom, and what I...

An e-learning website for our dreams — Georgetown

Thanks for the invitation to post, Marcus, and for suggesting what I might writing about first!  I'll write here about websites worth considering,  beginning with the CNDLS site at Georgetown, an operation led by a professor of American Studies, Randy Bass. To...