Rob Bourne's Blog

Recently I have been beavering aways creating UML (Unified Modelling Language) models for an assignment and it occurred to me that I hate installing software.  I don’t just hate it I will spend countless hours trawling the net looking for a web 2.0 system that can do the job. Of course this is nothing to [...]

Interesting session led by Barry Sampson from Onlighnment I did feel however it was a tad lacking in the strategic sense though. One nice touch was setting the expectations in terms of the education side of things I.e how this related to performance rather than learning. Personally I took this to mean that we [...]

I had to feel slightly sorry for Martin Belton on this one as he was dogged by laptop issues. It did make me think however how reliant presenters are on their powerpoint decks. I definitely include myself in this category being someone who takes a lot of cues off of those handy little bullet point [...]

So my mean motivation for actually attending Uncovered 2009 was to get a closer look at E2Train’s new version of their proprietary Learning Management Systems (LMS) Kalidus 8. Basically I attended the following sessions:
Using Kallidus web gadgets to create a learner environment
Kalidus LMS configuration workshop
Kalidus LMS accreditation
What’s coming from Kalidus
Introduction to Kallidus 8 reporting
I’m not [...]

Skillsoft incidentally were the sponsors for the event and I have a nice shiny skillsoft conference bag to prove it! The chap who presented this session did say it was a ‘very dry topic’ I did however find the advice practical and cetainly useful from a high level perspective (arguably from a higher level [...]

This was one that I thought would be interesting and it did not dissapoint. Unfortunately I have completly forgotten the name of the other chap who co-presented this session. It started with an interesting lead in statistic that the world needs another 18 million teachers to bring education to rural areas.
The basic premise of this [...]

I thought I would pop along and take in the presentation by Nabeel Ahmed a Learning Technologist from IBM. Mainly it was out of curiosity to observe the differences between the education sector Learning Technologists and the corporate versions. Terminology was the first thing I noticed the presentation was peperred with the language of the [...]

After reading his book ‘What Video games have to teach us about language and literacy’ it was fair to say that I was looking forward to this one. Of course not just because of my love of video games…. well maybe that was a big part of it.
I must admit it did feel like an [...]

Interesting morning listening to a fairly diverse set of speakers at the Tuesday session of handheld learning. None of the keynotes actually addressed handheld learning as such instead they addressed more general issues around education and cultural systems.
Particularly enjoyed Malcolm McLaren’s rant about society in general. Excellent anecodote about his days as  a wine taster. [...]

http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/~csisc17/index.html
Well actually it is my Birkbeck profile page, a fine example of cutting edge web design as I am sure you will agree. Link at the bottom however to some of the resources (actually nothing in there at this pont!) I am going to pull together in terms of search optomization techniques. Mainly however I [...]