Category: miscellany
Schools and Factories
I mentioned today that schools are modelled on industrial era and factories. Probably didn’t make a lot of sense. So here’s a simple way to understand this. You’re in Year 7. The Yea... Read More
Content marketing is ruining the web. Its decline will be poetic justice | JR Hennessy | Comment is free | theguardian.com
Content marketing is ruining the web. Its decline will be poetic justice | JR Hennessy | Comment is free | theguardian.com. From The Guardian a little riposte on Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) which... Read More
Confusion Rains
From an email I have just read based on a recent The Chronicle of Higher Education comes: Steve Kolowich, in “Confuse Students to Help Them Learn”, uses the example of a physics teacher wh... Read More
Excellent Simple HTML Resource
A very good place to start if you want to know more about writing HTML. Dave Raggett’s “Getting Started with HTML“. And in case you’re wondering, code and its basics is going t... Read More
It’s And all the Way Down
We rarely say what we mean (it’s a condition of language). So a quick riff post symposium. Print and network and digital literacy, not rivals, not anything. It is not this literacy or that one b... Read More
BitLit Books | BitLit
BitLit Books | BitLit. Interesting service. Use your phone to photograph book cover, then write your name on copyright page, photograph that. If they have book in their library then you either get ebo... Read More
UnHappy Birthday
And here’s the US advocacy site… http://www.unhappybirthday.com/ (in relation to copyright and Happy Birthday).... Read More
Copying and publishing photos in Australia without permission – Media Report – ABC Radio National Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Copying and publishing photos in Australia without permission – Media Report – ABC Radio National Australian Broadcasting Corporation. You can listen to this (use the audio links in the ri... Read More