Author: Martin Hawksey

This is an archive of the 2013 version of ocTEL.

Interoperable plugins that's what we need…

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Martin Hawksey

Fri, 06 Sep 2013 13:39:06 GMT
– Google+
– Public
Interoperable plugins that’s what we need…
On Tuesday (10th September, 2013) I’ll be giving a short presentation at altc2013 on using WordPress as a course platform for ocTEL. I had planned to write more about the actual presentation but in…
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The things you do on your day off … create a Chrome Web App and standalone apps to create RSS feeds…

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Martin Hawksey

Tue, 07 May 2013 14:13:14 GMT
– Google+
The things you do on your day off … create a Chrome Web App and standalone apps to create RSS feeds from Scoop.it searches (and then wonder if RSS is the right route) #ocTEL  
Ready for a ramble? In this post I take you on a journey from my dotbirth, RSS feeds, Chrome Apps, touching upon how I created an RSS feed for Scoopit searches, before kicking the ‘Tin Can’
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Been meaning to finish this post for ages. Some more detail on how the wordpress platform is configured…

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Martin Hawksey

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:18:24 GMT
– Google+
Been meaning to finish this post for ages. Some more detail on how the wordpress platform is configured/customised as a component of the #ocTEL open online course. 
Having recently posted the ingredients card for ocTEL I thought I flesh out some of the details and give ‘mama’s secret recipe’. Like most recipes it’s not perfect and I encourage you to try it you……
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More related work around the open course  #octel  

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Martin Hawksey

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:20:08 GMT
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More related work around the open course  #octel  
This post originally appeared on the ocTEL blog on 15th April and was written in collaboration with David Jennings. I’ve reposted it here as it outlines some of the broad ideas we are using with th……
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#ocTEL: Outline of an open course (maximising email push with MailPress)

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This post originally appeared on the ocTEL blog on 15th April and was written in collaboration with David Jennings. I’ve reposted it here as it outlines some of the broad ideas we are using with this open course, but in particular I wanted to highlight the use of the WordPress plugin MailPress to distribute course […]

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#ocTEL Using Google Spreadsheets for a basic analytic to find your fledgling bloggers

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One of the nice things about open courses like ocTEL is whilst having your own blogging space wasn’t a mandatory requirement we were aware that a number of participants had setup one up anyway. Conscious that activities like blogging can be very lonely and also aware that this is often a critical moment in motivating […]

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I love Socrative and share it as an educational tool wherever I go.  There are some new updates, such…

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Martin Hawksey

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 08:06:37 GMT
– Reshared Post
Socrative has appeared a number of times in my stream this week. One to watch!

#ocTEL  

Tim Wicks
originally shared this
post:
I love Socrative and share it as an educational tool wherever I go.  There are some new updates, such as:

Socrative now allows you to add images to your questions and have short answer quizzes graded for you. Additionally, the short answer activity now allows you to display your question on your audience’s devices.
People who have attended one of my presentations this spring may have seen these tools already as I was an early tester of them, but now everyone can use some great new features in Socrative. As they …
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#ocTEL– proudly powered by …

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There have been a couple of very interesting WordPress/FeedWordPress recipe cards for open courses from Anne-Marie Scott for #edcmooc and Martin Weller for #h817open. Below is the ingredient list for #octel. Added to the pot is some homegrown veg which gives us some very personal customisation. A lot of this is to tweak the functionality […]

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Some octel platform developments. Happy to hear your thoughts on this a wider platform functionality …

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Martin Hawksey

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 12:14:04 GMT
– Community
Some octel platform developments. Happy to hear your thoughts on this a wider platform functionality in this group or on the forums[1]

[1] http://octel.alt.ac.uk/forums/forum/octel-platform/ 

We aim to provide you with one easy-to-use location to which any ocTEL participant can add their activity, and then anyone can read it through an integrated interface. The feature of the ocTEL course …
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Just a note to say I've tweaked the feed from Google+ into the ocTEL site http://octel.alt.ac.uk/category…

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Martin Hawksey

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 13:38:43 GMT
– Community
Just a note to say I’ve tweaked the feed from Google+ into the ocTEL site http://octel.alt.ac.uk/category/reader/social-networks/google/ so it should pick up messages from this community even without the #octel  tag. 

For those who would like to just subscribe to the rss feed it’s https://script.google.com/macros/s/AKfycbydByKOtcfKB8HFSgIXYspDUrlpMeKFLK9J-he2ZwgSTifQFhZ6/exec?feedId=S30501691364 

[search for feed+ in the chrome store if you want to create your own rss feeds from google+ searches/people]
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