One year Today since I started……..

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…..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.

Flickr Images from Edinburgh Marathon 2011

2010 in review

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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:

Healthy blog!

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is doing awesome!.

Crunchy numbers

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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 .

Where did they come from?

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.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

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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

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About me May 2008

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Prezi – A different way of presenting May 2009

XPERT – (Xerte Public E-learning ReposiTory)

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XPERT – project is a JISC funded rapid innovation project (summer 2009) to explore the potential of delivering and supporting a distributed repository of e-learning resources.

It has a very useful search facility that allows you to attribute resources to the original creator. A great resource for finding and using images and video without fear of copyright infringement.

You can see what XPERT is about and why it is useful by watching this video clip:

ALT-C 2010 Reflections

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Me @ ALT-c 2010

Socialising at the ALT-C Gala Dinner

My main thoughts about the 3 days last week are:

  • Open Educational Resources (OERs) are gaining in prominence and importance
  • Use of smart phones/mobile devices in teaching and learning will increase dramatically after xmas 2010
  • Lecture Captue is pushing forward in HE sector but Copyright still unresolved
  • Pressures politically for all HEIs to use learning technology more effectively, and/or start using it
  • Lectures – Is it the most useful and efficient method for reaching large student cohorts? In some instances, yes it is.