Monthly Archives: April, 2010
Hypertext style conventions
I’m facing the decision of whether to hyperlink to the original source or to my end-text referencing in my online writing. Becky pointed out that hyperlinking to the end text reference means that I’d be following print-text conventions whereas hyperlinking to the original source means following hypertext conventions (although these don’t seem to be written [...]
Exploring Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Download a print friendly(er) version of this essay here When I first pitched the idea to develop my doctoral dissertation as a hypertext in website form, I had no idea that this request would be considered unusual. I also had no idea that it had not been done before at my institution (that we know [...]
These are a few of my favourite things
I’ve been running (facilitating) a course for Languages teachers based on the 23 Things programme here at Murdoch University (which was in turn adapted from the http://macetg.wordpress.com/about-learning-20-mac/ project at McMaster University Library) for a year and a half now. In it we explore 23 ICT Things that are useful for learning/teaching Languages both in terms [...]
Big work, and lots of it
I had this conversation with students from Yarridale Senior High School during a focus group interview and it has really stayed with me: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Penny: So when you think of “ICTs”, what do you think of? What comes to mind? Christy: Computers. Penny: Computers? What else? Alistair: A lot [...]
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