Guest Lecture to Marketing Students

Earlier today I presented a lecture to Marketing undergraduate students in the Business School. It is the first time I have presented in the new Business School building and I was impressed with the facilities and layout of the room.

The presentation/lecture was about Blogging. So I gave a brief overview of the history and asked the students to perform a couple of tasks during the hour. I feel that it went ok. The only thing that didn’t work was when I tried to upload a blog post via my phone app. I think it was struggling to connect to the wi-fi. It worked fine an hour earlier on the main campus but not in Barrack Road.

It made a pleasant change to present to students. It made me realise amongst other things how far removed I am from them now in terms of age although at times I think I am on their level. Mentioning Friends Reunited got a laugh/perplexed reaction.

My Twitter account has been hacked

Hi folks,

My twitter account – ashleyhwright has been hacked and someone is sending a message to my followers along the lines of….

I saw a really bad blog about you….{spam link}

Apologies if any of you have received one. I have reported it to Twitter and they will be in touch with me directly in the next 48 hours, or longer. Not much else I can do about it at the moment.

Blackboard Course Sites

Blackboard Course SitesI have just signed up to experiment with the Blackboard (Bb) Course Sites feature. It allows you to create your own online course using Blackboard.
It offers a range of styles and technical features which will be of interest to those that are regular users of Bb. I like the broad range of CSS you can choose from, far more than are offered in the production systems offered in Learn and Organization. Will this be avialable in 9.1 later this year? I shall be having a look at this in depth this coming month.