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Posts in Learning New Tricks

September 12th, 2010 in Things I Learned This Week

Things I Learned This Week – #37

Offline this week I learned that conference coffee is always bad, some of the worst people to sit in front of on trains are old, talkative women who lead boring lives, and that there was Read Article

September 5th, 2010 in Things I Learned This Week

Things I Learned This Week – #36

Offline this week I learned the proper way to put up and take down a tent (more trial and error and observing others than anything else), that 3 year olds, Talking Carl and public spaces Read Article

August 29th, 2010 in Feature Content, Things I Learned This Week

Things I Learned This Week – #35

Offline this week I learned how dead the world of Higher education is over the summer, that there was a reason I was heavily discouraged to take GCSE Art, and that trying to run after Read Article

August 22nd, 2010 in Things I Learned This Week

Things I Learned This Week – #34

This week I learned that seagulls are carnivorous (I saw one eating a pigeon), that trying to escape via a nettle-strewn path when playing ‘capture the flag’ is foolish, and that this season is going Read Article

August 15th, 2010 in Feature Content, Things I Learned This Week

Things I Learned This Week – #33

Offline this week I learned not to go and see films on the basis of who’s in them, not to sit next to large cheese plants at doctors surgeries, and that listening to audiobooks before Read Article

August 8th, 2010 in Things I Learned This Week

Things I Learned This Week – #32

Offline this week I learned that games-based learning is the future for my son, Ben (he loves Big Brain Academy on the Wii!), that nothing beats a whiteboard and coloured pens for mindmaps, and that Read Article

August 1st, 2010 in Feature Content, Things I Learned This Week

Things I Learned This Week – #31

You’re expecting me, I know, to talk about Google Teacher Academy UK. I learned so much in my time in London that to try and shoehorn it into this post would be foolish. Instead, I’m Read Article

July 18th, 2010 in Feature Content, Learning New Tricks, Things I Learned This Week

Things I Learned This Week — #29

Offline this week I learned that our two man tent is very waterproof (thankfully!) that the PS3 game Heavy Rain is all kinds of awesome, and that after three months I’m still just as likely to get on the wrong Metro. (Read on to see what else Doug learned this week) Read Article

July 11th, 2010 in Feature Content, Learning New Tricks, Things I Learned This Week

Things I Learned This Week – #28

Offline this week I learned that running two 10k’s in a week doesn’t actually kill you, that ‘location-based task chunking’ aids productivity and that the Kindle rocks (although technically the latter can go online as well…) :-p Read Article

July 6th, 2010 in Learning New Tricks, On the Pad

The iPad Makes My Life Easier Because It’s About Convergence

One of the most common questions I get about my iPad is this — “What software do you find most useful?” The answer is easy. My apps of choice are those that allow me to do the things I need while working on any device I own (laptop, tablet, or phone). When combined with these applications, the tablet becomes a truly distributed computing device Read Article