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Getting Inspired by IWMW (see you at #iwmw16)

Martin Hawksey June 3, 2016

This is a repost of a guest post I wrote for the Institutional Web Management Workshop (IWMW) event. Original post is here and thanks to Brian Kelly for edits. The […]

Open isn’t free: What are the costs (hidden economies)

Martin Hawksey May 3, 2016 2

Updated with ‘the Web’s Hidden Economies’ At OER16 we explored letting some of our presenters present virtually. This raises interesting questions about cost. Whilst virtual participants won’t eat your food […]

Knowing learning: Some educational neuroscience linkage

Martin Hawksey February 3, 2016

At OEB 2015 there was a great plenary presentation from Lia Commissar from the Wellcome Trust on Educational Neuroscience. Today I came across a number of related news and resources in this area that others might find useful

Looking at creativity and culture in computer science to inspire better education

Martin Hawksey January 13, 2016

Heavily influenced by Alan Kay and computer science history from the 1960s to 1970s I look at how this could be applied to the challenges and opportunities of education today

Is learning technology fit for purpose?

Martin Hawksey August 5, 2015

Is learning technology fit for purpose? In my opinion generally yes … but are the education systems they support equally optimized? Today’s education is focused on administration of learning and as such learning technology inevitably has the similar focus.

Forking #blimage and sharing a bit of #vidage that has influenced my thoughts around education (#blideo)

Martin Hawksey July 27, 2015

Missed a trick and as Alex Bellars points out should have called it #blideo @timbuckteeth @mhawksey #blideo, no? — Alex Bellars (@bellaale) July 29, 2015 David Hopkins recently challenged me […]

Drawing squircles in Lau for WatchMaker (using WatchMaker functions)

Martin Hawksey July 14, 2015

I recently made a WatchMaker Android Wear watch face based on the ‘squircle’. This post covers the maths behind squircles and getting (x,y) co-ordinates for any given polar angle. Finally I reveal the secrets of functions in WatchMaker Lau script.