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My advice to teachers: if you are using Web 2.0 tools or an LMS such as Moodle, you may not find a shiny new iPad is a suitable platform for creating and editing content.

If you want to use a Mac to get on with managing your life, work and information, you’re likely to find the bundled Apple software a bit disappointing.

Is PowerPoint the ultimate compensation for a weak premotor cortex? And what are the ethical issues if how we teach affects the structure of the learner’s brain?

We need to beware of hype which tries to persuade decision makers that high-speed broadband is the ‘missing piece of the jigsaw’: education will only become more effective when a whole raft of problems are resolved

The latest version of Tweetdeck (0.30.3) for the Mac does not appear to work properly with Greek characters.

The distinction between andragogy and pedagogy provides useful insights into our learners. But to characterise pedagogy as embodying everything that is out-dated and reactionary in educational approaches is simplistic and erroneous in my opinion.

Using directory structures to organise content files in Moodle helps keep the course front page uncluttered and provides easy access for students.

The tendency to remain motivated varies very widely between individuals, over time, and between contexts. The motivational stamina model attempts to identify some of the variables involved in learner motivation.

Although there is now a local number to access Twitter in New Zealand, it seems support for Twitter is still not available for many Telecom customers.

The beta version of bing. com, Microsoft’s new search engine, looks fast but it does seem to have a bug in handling language settings in the preferences.