A number of places on the web have posted some fascinating Facebook stats of activity in 2010 – I can’t work out where the original source is but will post some references at the end. They quote that in 2010 in a randomly sampled 20 minute time slot there were (in order) Comments: 10,208,000 Likes: […]
Monthly Archives: December 2010
A day at #limmud conference… Monday
My day at Limmud Conference Every day at Limmud is different, no doubt I’ve included too much information in this blog post but I wanted to give a full picture of what this conference is actually about. It does miss out all the important little conversations in between sessions, over meals and to the people […]
Virtual Presenters welcome to e-tools session at Limmud
Once again this year I am attending Limmud Conference at Warwick University and again I am giving a number of sessions. (More about Limmud conference later on). One of my sessions it titled e-Tools, e-Learning, and e-Communication for e-veryone happening at 19:00-20:10 GMT on Tuesday (28th December) In this session I will be presenting various […]
Snow days self-learning and online learning
Back in January when the UK shut down for a week because of snow schools leaders suddenly realised that VLEs and e-learning could be a solution to closed schools. Maybe the promise of virtual classrooms and 24 hour learning could actually keep school children learning when schools were closed. With this in mind, alongside the […]
Gender stereotypes in life, in schools and in education
Certainly in the UK, and I know in many other countries we have problems getting girls and boys to study some subjects. As a Computer Science undergraduate at Edinburgh and Birmingham Universities it was hard not to notice the ratio of boys to girls, I would estimate at least 80% boys when I studied 10 […]