Unwell, so having it read to me on the Kindle, while taking notes on an iPad.
When I wander off I pick up the thread on the iPhone.
It's surprising how much can be read while the kettle boils.
In due course and I'll have my very own 3,000 word interpretation of this 50,000+ worder, far more once I've added my notes, thoughts additional references and illustrations.
My web 2.0 sensibilities are for the online equivalent of the Illustrated, hardback coffee-table book, with video and podcasts, interactivity and links.
I'd have Dion Hinchcliffe's graphic designer do some colour diagrams, Steven Appleby provide some cartoons, while I would interview the author for YouTube and set it all to something suitably camp like Mike Oldfield with a Roger Dean poster decorating the set.
When do we get the webinar?
And I pre-emptivelly wrote a review in Amazon on the basis of the first two chapters, hearing the author debate and speak the subject and reading his blog (as well as his earlier book that he brings up as a way of looking at how things have changed since 2006).
P.S. Buy you e-book version now then return here to discuss, or find you in Linked in or Google+ ...
Or for some blended learning if you live near Lewes, East Sussex, over at the Needlemakers for a coffee.
My 'take-aways' so far:
Digital, Networked, Open.
Fast, cheap and out of control.
Why students choose one university over another.
The 'good enough' revolution. Wired (2009)
The unpredicatable use of technology.
(and Martin Weller's daughter, he writes on page one, didn't think, based on his 'ellevator pitch' that the book would do very well. This, with a bit of 'airplay' on the blogosphere, need not be the case. Get to work tweeting, noting, sharing, putting into Linkedin, Twitter, Facebook, Xing and Viadeo. I can't see a movie in it though).
The Digtal Scholar (2011) Martin Weller
Alerted by a Tweat, I bought the book in minutes.
There's never a better time than 'Now'.
Purchase your copy here.
Unwell, so having it read to me on the Kindle, while taking notes on an iPad.
When I wander off I pick up the thread on the iPhone.
It's surprising how much can be read while the kettle boils.
In due course and I'll have my very own 3,000 word interpretation of this 50,000+ worder, far more once I've added my notes, thoughts additional references and illustrations.
My web 2.0 sensibilities are for the online equivalent of the Illustrated, hardback coffee-table book, with video and podcasts, interactivity and links.
I'd have Dion Hinchcliffe's graphic designer do some colour diagrams, Steven Appleby provide some cartoons, while I would interview the author for YouTube and set it all to something suitably camp like Mike Oldfield with a Roger Dean poster decorating the set.
When do we get the webinar?
And I pre-emptivelly wrote a review in Amazon on the basis of the first two chapters, hearing the author debate and speak the subject and reading his blog (as well as his earlier book that he brings up as a way of looking at how things have changed since 2006).
P.S. Buy you e-book version now then return here to discuss, or find you in Linked in or Google+ ...
Or for some blended learning if you live near Lewes, East Sussex, over at the Needlemakers for a coffee.
My 'take-aways' so far: