EduGlu Sandbox

My research group spent a successful day this week brainstorming and developing projects together.
We began by considering what we enjoy about research, and found that social and affective factors are hugely important to us. We wanted to carry out joyful research - visionary research - research that would engage us and make a difference to the world.

Touched down in Addis Abeba at about 2am this morning, after a slightly delayed flight. The plane was pretty full, but we stopped in Amman (Jordan) where most people got off, so there was pretty much only VSO volunteeers left on the plane for the last leg, plus 10 or people from Vision Aid.

I've written a chapter for a book with James Dalziel and we are asked to sign a copyright form. Now, I usually just sign these, but I've been getting fussy about this stuff recently. So, I actually read this one, and when you analyse it, there are a number of really draconian measures in there. If you look at it rationally you think 'no-one would invent a system like this now'.

Okay, so I'm getting really lazy with the blog lately (been churning the words, just not in public:-( so here's a bit more cut and pasting, this time not even from me. Instead, it's from the BBC Trust report on bbc.co.uk, the Beeb's online presence.

So, after a term of study and using all of the technologies that I have been speaking about… it’s time for the moment of truth, time to ask the question: “did they make a difference at all?”