Disqus - Latest Comments for jobadge

Re: Drowning

jobadge — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:14:08 -0000

how can I access wave on a touch? I did try yesterday but just got a 'you need safari 4, chrome or FF' message. If you had warned us, I'm sure more of us would have brought laptops to give it a go. Happy to try at next meeting.

Re: Finding the missing joy

jobadge — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:33:05 -0000

go on - give us a swedish chef too please sir!

Re: Has Blackboard outlived its shelf-life?

jobadge — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:48:30 -0000

Ah ha - the pop up had popped up off the bottom of the page. Silly me not to have found it.

Interesting post Dr Cann. I guess the question is do we care? If we are going to follow the students to their place of conversation and meet them there, why not have a hub to 'keep stuff' in and talk elsewhere? We do it all the time.

Re: Reflective FriendFolios

jobadge — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:48:04 -0000

I like the stripped down criteria. I guess the quesitons are going to be 'what is an update?' what is a reflective comment? Are we going to build an examplar? what about sharing and networking? what about subscribing? tagging? sorry, that's lots of questions for which I don't have answers, just trying to think around the issue. err btw - what's happened to disqus - where do I log in?
pop up was broken on IE 7, so here is my Firefox version :-)

Re: Failure is an option

jobadge — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:08:40 -0000

oh dear. Prefacing every question with 'have you read the notes?' getting boring is it? Guess they aren't 'clicking on the related links' either :-(

Re: Purpose for Posterous: PhD Research Journal

jobadge — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:36:36 -0000

great idea Jay, I'll be interested to hear how you are getting on with it and will look out for and comment on your posts when I can :-)

Re: Engaging Students Through In-Class Technology

jobadge — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:32:45 -0000

thanks for advertising this Alan - still a few places left.

while I'm here - have you updated disqus - I can now see how many comments I've made and I have 14 points - what's that all about - are you grading comments now?! and I can auto-tweet my comments. OOOOO, fancy.

Re: Changing the game

jobadge — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:37:09 -0000

whatever you use, as long as it isn't illuminate, I don't mind ;-)

Re: I hate lists - or do I?

jobadge — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:55:45 -0000

can't you do this already on tweetdeck? I can create columns on there for selected followers. I guess the difference here is that you can share those lists? but you don't want them to be shared, you just want them for personal use?? then use tweetdeck ;-) maybe I'm just jealous cos I don't have lists myself :-(

Oh and by the way, while I'm up for five mins air... I've just drawn a mindmap to help me write my plagiarism review. So much for being a bullet point kindagirl.

Re: FriendFolios

jobadge — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:50:59 -0000

I like the idea of using FF in this way - when? for the BS1010 or BS1011? or are you looking ahead to next academic year?
However, I wonder if the object orientated nature of FF may not encourage the 'blog-like' reflection we were hopign for on Wordpress?

(and btw if I comment on the blog, but by DISQUS account is pulled into FF, where does it go in FF and will I soon disappear in an infinite loop of my own self posting destruction?)

Re: More RSSFAIL

jobadge — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:26:56 -0000

Ok, I'll go and get my head round friend feed :-)
I agree there isn't much point in using GR if we use FF

Re: The web as a useful tool rather than a threat #uolneylon

jobadge — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:36:51 -0000

A little bit more information to encourage those who don't know Cameron to come and see what he has to say.

Professor Neylon is a major proponent of open science (see http://blog.openwetware.org/scienceintheopen/). Much of his day to day results and research are published in his online lab notebook (http://biolab.isis.rl.ac.uk/camerons_labblog). He is giving a genetics department research seminar this week on 'The web as a useful too rather than a threat' which should be of interest beyond the usual subject boundaries. More information is available at http://scienceoftheinvisible.blogspot.com/2009/...

Re: The web as a useful tool rather than a threat #uolneylon

jobadge — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:21:12 -0000

I'll be there - looking forward to hearing about what Cameron is up to in person.

Re: UoL IT Forum #UoLITSF

jobadge — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 05:52:45 -0000

and yes, before anyone asks, I admit that I am married to drrichardbadge, though normally I call him just richard :-)

Re: UoL IT Forum #UoLITSF

jobadge — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:59:47 -0000

I will be there too. Maybe we can borrow a mifi? :-)
Just to be clear... I'm Dr Jo Badge (jlb34) and I work in the MSB

Re: On boring VLEs

jobadge — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:02:27 -0000

Very clearly and succinctly put Sarah - can you come and inspire some of our staff please :-)

Re: UoL ITS website

jobadge — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:55:33 -0000

I agree that it is the lack of follow up information on the wervice level statements on the web site that are the most annoying. They are just blankeet statements that are dead ends. 'Supporting your desktop' sounded very useful to me, but I can't go anywhere after that. Leading off to the departmental nominees, software catalogue or similar would have been useful.

My concern with ITS is that there is no home for eLearning that I can see. I would have thought one of our core businesses was Learning and Teaching. I'm currently trying to find a spiritual home for Turnitin. Wish me luck.

Re: Breathing life into Beyond Google

jobadge — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:51:22 -0000

marvellous, I'm all for a bit of planning, it's the action that worries me.

BTW logging into disqus is impossible on the touch and a bit dodgy on IE 7 (though I know you wouldn't care about that!). Pop up pops off to random part of the screen and cannot be moved. Just luck if you can see the OK button!

Re: UoL ITS website

jobadge — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:58:41 -0000

The site feels like it has been designed in order for ITS to provide us with service level statements on things instead of actual information about we things we may need to know. Lots of stuff about what is provided, why, what we are supposed to do about it and whether it's going to cost us to use it. Not sure where to look for the stuff I used to go there for - the useful web guides, information about cfs accounts, software. I see that learning technologies and blackboard are listed as two separate items, so they got something right there.

The old site was clunky but it was so old I knew pretty much where everything was. The new site will take some getting used to.

However, I'm glad to see that at least someone in ITS is listening, it's a start towards a conversation.

Re: Recommendations on CiteULike

jobadge — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:56:42 -0000

Nice - what did you use to make it? screenr? liked the notes you'd added.

Re: Were you up for Portillo?

jobadge — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:13:09 -0000

aww boo. Missed it, wasted my time watching panorama instead. I was not sober by portillo.

Re: Whatever

jobadge — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:10:55 -0000

A (science) colleague asked me on friday what the take home message from ALT-C was. In a fog of tiredness and the pressure of wondering what I was supposed to be doing this week, I wasn't sure. Thinking about it over the weekend, it was the people and @Daveowhites presentation that made the whole thing worthwhile.

Watching the bioscience community emerge over the weekend has been great. Long may it continue.

Re: Unpacking Solo09

jobadge — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:18:31 -0000

sounds like you had a good time, glad you went. Maybe we can manage to go together next year??!!

Re: Peer Pressure

jobadge — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:09:51 -0000

Could we pull the posts using RSS and then dump them into turnitin?

Re: Blogging Beyond Blackboard

jobadge — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:07:03 -0000

hurray for wordpress, happy not to have to listen to Blackboard moaning once a week ;-)
sounds good to me - anyway they will need WP accounts for the portfolio blogs anyway won't they?