http://www.knowandnetwork.org/francesbell/weblog/388.html
Chess is a theme in my extended family (though I have no great skills in it), and through family connections, I chanced to be in Iceland on holiday when the Fischer-Spassky match was on in 1972. Thanks to my brother Paul, we attended one of matches where the excitement was palpable. Watching the match was [...]
Entries from January 2008
End of an era - chess
January 18th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: People
Tom Hodgkinson’s rant on (or should I say about?) Facebook
January 17th, 2008 · No Comments
Post from http://elgg.jiscemerge.org.uk/francesbell/weblog/1154.html
Tom Hodgkinson (in the old media corner) squares up against the new(ish) contender Facebook. A quick google search reveals that Tom does have an Internet profile: he tells us that he plays the ukulele, and he does blog about his current reading in a convergent media fashion.Also, anyone who has a web site [...]
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Embedding Del.icio.us in Blackboard
January 12th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Like many others, I am obliged to use an institutional VLE (in my case Blackboard) but get frustrated with updates being cumbersome and bookmarks being duplicated in the silos that are my Blackboard ‘courses’.
I now manage links in del.icio.us and simply link to the appropriate tag from the relevant area of my Blackboard course, as [...]
Tags: Learning Technology