Dick Sblog

I’ve just caught up with the vIII of Howie DiBlasi’s YouTube video, ‘Did you know?‘ (I’m a bit slow here, it was released last year). I don’t think it’s as good a presentation as the earlier one but it reinforces some key points. Here are a couple:
“this year 1.5 exabytes (1.5 x 10power18) of unique [...]

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“Despite regular complaints about standards of literacy and numeracy, it is the so-called soft-skills that are at the top of the organisations list of concerns regarding the lack of skills of new employees joining from school, college or university. 66per cent of respondent organisations feel that new employees lack both communication/interpersonal skills and management/leadership skills [...]

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I’m grateful for Lisa Harris of Southampton University for drawing my attention to a short video on YouTube. Created by Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University, it summarises some of the most important characteristics of students today – how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams, [...]

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Inspired by my old friend Dr Alan Rae, I’ve finally got around to creating my first squidoo lens. This lens, not surprisingly, is on the topic of networked collaboration – referencing a couple of recent bits of research and beginning to shape an approach to introducing networked collaboration into the hermetically sealed world of [...]

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