In the words of Mr Stephen Fry: There are all kinds of pedants around with more time to read and imitate Lynne Truss and John Humphrys than to write poems, love-letters, novels and stories it seems. They whip out their Sharpies and take away and add apostrophes from public signs, shake their heads at prepositions […]
Continue reading →It is common, even amongst strong advocates for the use of digital technology in education, to begin any discussion of eLearning with an affirmation that the ‘e’ is an unnecessary prefix to the ‘learning.’ The most common argument is that it’s all about learning, that the technology is a mere bit player in the learning […]
Continue reading →Carmen-Maria Hetrea, Director of the Information Architecture and Management team at Encyclopaedia Britannica, has penned an odd little piece for the Britannica blog: The Problem with Hypertext: From Annotation to Anomie. She asks the question, is Hypertext: “…an information highway or is each link simply an exit?” She explains: “As publishing electronically has progressed, hypertext […]
Continue reading →Euan Semple has a knack for short posts that force me to confront some assumptions. A recent one is a case in point, entitled Mass Illiteracy: Are those who espouse the primacy of face to face communication really just hiding the fact that they are illiterate? I mean this in the sense that they are […]
Continue reading →In view of the possibility for developments of this machine, therefore, there would seem to be no reason why a man sitting at his Zerograph in London, may not, in the future, be able to hold written converse with his correspondents in the furthermost parts of the globe, without the intervention of any physical connection. […]
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