Benjamin Ellis on the Web

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• The 9th Habit of Highly Effective People - Look after your data!
  Stephen Covey has already published the The 8th Habit, so I’ll have to put this down as the 9th habit of highly effective people. These days we have more knowledge than we can comfortably fit in our heads, so we depend on our trusty computers to keep all of that overflowing information safe. From important e-mails, to irreplaceable family photos, or [...]
• WordCampUK, Communities and Goops
    This has happened before, but this ‘goops‘ is rather timely. What’s a ‘goops’? It’s my favourite term for semantic/contextual errors: Searching without sufficient attention to context. Let’s say I’m looking for information on Birmingham. I might head over to Google and do a search on ‘Birmingham’. If I’m after a picture, I could click on image [...]
• Open Learning - Determined People with Tenacious Goals
  The Open University learning environment is a technology-mediated communication role model. Even so, the OU still brings learners together for ‘real-world’ events. That has been the reason for a no blog posts this last week - I have been working my little socks off at Bath University, conducting research projects with a few hundred other people. I was [...]