Dick Sblog

Words from a man with passion about online educational collaboration

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May 8th, 2009 · No Comments

At last, someone has taken the trouble to express how I feel about twitter

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Homeworking still to take off vs Rapid rise in flexible working

September 15th, 2008 · No Comments

The August issue of the CIPD’s quarterly update on policy and research contained an article saying that ‘the much heraled revolution in homeworking is yet to take off, although a quarter of employers say that homeworking will increase in their organisation in the next year’.
On September 9th, the Guardian ran a piece entitled, ‘Rapid rise [...]

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The LSC and collaboration

July 17th, 2008 · No Comments

I do so like a nice bit of irony.
Here am I, quietly banging on to noone in particular about the need to develop skills of collaboration amongst our students, particularly in distributed working environments., when along comes Peter Kingston in the Guardian with a piece about an unpublished report on the Learning and Skills Council.
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