The ability to post my blog from email

I have learnt today (from James Clay of elearningstuff) that it is possible for me to update my WordPress blog by sending emails – which is what I am doing here. Now this is a very useful tool, as it makes it easier to post whilst on the move (I am writing this whilst on [...]

Food labels – are we trying to confuse people?

Food label – 107% + ingredients

Originally uploaded by Dave Foord

There are often reports in the media about people not understanding the nutritional information on food labels, which is partly due to a lack of understanding, but also related to the food companies deliberately try to mislead people to make their foods sound more healthy e.g. [...]

Confidentiality when using a blog for reflective practice

Following my recent post on using a blog for reflective practice I have been asked about issues of confidentiality with these ideas, and this is of course a very important area, but one that can be resolved by applying some common sense, and thinking about each case individually. Here are a few pointers and an [...]

Tagging videos as an educational tool

Over the last 12 months I have regularly demonstrated Veotag which is an excellent site where you upload a video, you then go through the video and apply ‘tags’ and a textual description to parts of the videos. these tages can then be used to navigate to a certain point within the video, or you [...]