OxTALENT Awards 2010
Yesterday evening some of the TALL team attended the University’s annual OxTALENT awards ceremony and would like to convey our congratulations to Melissa Highton and her team at the Learning...
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The cost of Residency?
We like to think of online platforms usurping each other as we move to the latest and greatest of a particular format, leaving the previous version eroding in a Kipple like fashion – the MySpace to...
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New Places to Learn
Yesterday I tweeted: “Annoyed by the ‘Digital Natives’ idea? Explore alternatives: ‘New Places to Learn’ Oxford Apr19 http://goo.gl/Sdf3w“ The (free) event I’m referring to is being run by the HEA and...
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The future is not quite real-time
In a discussion with Lawrie Phipps (@Lawrie) I was reminded of something I was thinking about last year around the advantages of not quite real-time (NQRT). It’s one of the few genuinely unique...
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Who’s excited about maths?
For the last two years I have been the Creative Director of the ‘Maths in the City’ project. At the helm was Marcus du Sautoy, that maths guy from the TV and Radio who also happens to be a member of my...
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Engage! (Please)
To paraphrase Dave White in the first blog post in this series about the Maths in the City project, engaging the public is a delicate business, particularly when you want meaningful levels of...
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Seven secrets to successful public engagement via social media (plus a diagram)
The Maths in the City is a public engagement project that, in short, went really well. There are many factors that contributed to its success and in this post I shall share the secrets behind our...
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Let them eat cake: thoughts on managing volunteers
Over the last two years we have had the pleasure of working with a wonderful group of students from the University of Oxford on the Maths in the City project. In fact, as you will have no doubt...
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Leading a walking tour – a step by step guide
There are many facets to the Maths in the City project – public engagement, connecting through social media and working with volunteers. The central goal of the project was to develop and lead...
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Visitors and Residents mapping process: the video
This is a video of the mapping process which we first piloted at Educause last year. It’s designed to help you explore and reflect upon how you engage with the digital environment and then investigate...
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