Category: technology

  • Brief Thoughts on UCISA’s 2014 TEL Survey

    Brief Thoughts on UCISA’s 2014 TEL Survey

    I’ve been reading this year’s results [pdf] of UCISA’s annual TEL survey and wanted to jot down a few of the things that jumped out. The key change though since 2012 is in the level of senior management engagement with TEL development. The 2014 case studies reveal that senior managers are now driving TEL development…

  • greasemonkeying towards a better Moodle

    greasemonkeying towards a better Moodle

    This isn’t going to turn into another rant about how frustrating Moodle 2 is … honest! Rather let’s instead take the position that any web-page that hasn’t been custom designed for a specific individual will always, no matter how good it is, leave something to be desired. This, for me, is where greasemonkey comes in.…

  • Moodle 2 Frustrations

    With over ten Moodle 1.9.* installations that all need upgrading, the next few months are going to be exciting. I have a clean Moodle 2 install, and a test 1.9 -> 2.1 install, and have been frustrated by some of the changes. I should note that I am also pleased at other changes, but those…

  • Ten for trust

    Following on from my last blog post, I am responding to connect.me’s call to blog about those I trust. One aspect I think that could do with some improvement in the way connect.me handles vouches, is the lack of evidence associated with each vouch. I hope I am trusted that when I vouch for someone…

  • Reputation Networks

    I have recently joined connect.me, a new reputation network. I have been asked why, with all the other social network sites available, did I join (and pester friends/colleagues to join) this one. Firstly a reputation network is NOT a social network, well, not exactly. A dedicated reputation network would seek not to compete with other…

  • PHP DOMNode -> setAttribute() max-width confusion

    While adding some custom code into Mahara, I came across what seems like a very odd PHP bug today, so odd that I put it down to user error, but just can’t seem to find what the user error is! Imagine the code below with some embed code from youtube or picasa as the value…