I am currently sat in the workshop working on a locally run (USB stick) WordPress install. Amazing what you are able to do with a little bit of knowledge.
Excellent facilitator and very knowledgeable trainer – Steve Boneham. Great workshop, highly recommend this to all.
Apple announces new campus in US. A curved building 4 storeys high, 6,000 trees. Pretty amazing plan.
“I think we do have a shot at building the best office building in the world,” Mr. Jobs said.
…..running or training for a run, properly.
By that I mean I recorded my running, bought some proper training shoes and stuck to a training schedule (in the main).
Back then I was 14 stone in weight and 41 inches circumference arounfd the belly button. I am now 13 St 5lb and 38″ circ. Apart from that my general health and fitness feels great. Rock ‘n’ roll I shall celebrate with a run this evening.
Ran 4.4 miles in about 10’06/mile. Felt good to be running again after a brief rest.
Here are a few clips and images from my running activities in the last 12 months.
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is doing awesome!.
A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 2,300 times in 2010. That’s about 6 full 747s.
In 2010, there were 7 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 43 posts. There were 23 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 13mb. That’s about 2 pictures per month.
The busiest day of the year was January 5th with 90 views. The most popular post that day was Durham Blackboard Users’ Conference .
The top referring sites in 2010 were twitter.com, facebook.com, pupillageandhowtogetit.wordpress.com, regdafishthinktank.com, and justgiving.com.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for ashley wright, ashley wright facebook, prezi accessibility, “ashley wright”, and font layout.
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
Durham Blackboard Users’ Conference January 2009
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Kielder Marathon – Go on 
comment May 2010
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Blackboard Teaching and Learning Conference 2010, Swansea, Wales April 2010
About me May 2008
Zoho offers a wide range of online applications – well worth a look: http://www.zoho.com/index.html
Assessment Standards Knowledge exchange (ASKe) – is the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning based at Oxford Brookes University Business School. It was set up in summer 2005 with a £4.5 million award (spread over five years) from HEFCE in recognition of good practice based on pedagogic research into aspects of assessment carried out by staff in the Business School and the Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development.
ASKe runs a series of seminars and workshops that staff can attend. They are delivered and organised in a variety of ways – all information can be browsed on their website: http://www.brookes.ac.uk/aske/
As forecast by Forrester Research Inc……..
The executive summary can be accessed here.
The five eras of the social web from Forrester Research Inc.
Wordle.net is a tool for generating word clouds from text that you submit to it. You can do this via a RSS feed or select text and paste it into a text box on their site. It then generates a word cloud, with the highest repeated words displayed in larger text. You can alter the images that are produced by altering the font, layout and colours.
I’ve seen this used at conferences and during presentations. It gives a useful snapshot for activities like gathering feedback, responses and online discussions.
In true Blue Peter style here is one I created today from the WP blog feed.
WordPress Blog Feed Image from Wordle.net
Thanks to all so far for visiting. I know that it’s the number of the beast….but I’m not too worried.
Once again, cheers.
Here is one view from JISC
Welcome to Ashley’s Online Journal (AOJ). Like many who use WordPress and other blogging tools I’ve dabbled with them before and eventually lapsed.
This time I’ll be posting articles, snippets and other things I come across on the web, in the hope that this will assist others who work in a similar field to me. My primary role at work is to create and deliver staff training sessions (aka interventions) in the e-Learning area.
All of the views expressed on AOJ are my own.
I hope that some of this will be of use to you and your colleagues. Please let me know by leaving a comment or two along the way.
