Author: Matt Lingard
Learning Technologist

This is an archive of the 2013 version of ocTEL.

My Big #ocTEL Question

Posted on by Matt Lingard Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

“Reflecting on your own work experience and ambitions for developing your teaching, what is the most important question about TEL for you?” I don’t do any formal teaching. I work with people who teach, helping to support & develop their use of technologies in their teaching activities. My big TEL related question is how do […]

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My Introduction

Posted on by Matt Lingard Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

I’m a Learning Technologist living & working in London. I’ve been working in education for 20-years as a TEFL teacher, an IT Trainer & a Learning Technologist. Since 2000 I’ve been working in universities in London and I’m currently an E-Learning Manager at City University London. My TEL experience as a Student TEL is my […]

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Hanging out at ocTEL

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After mulling it over today, I’ve decided that I’m going to join two main communities for #ocTEL. As the course guidance notes it’s impossible to be everwhere, read everything so I will be participating via this blog following other dedicated ocTEL blogs participating in the ocTEL G+ Community Hopefully that will be manageable.

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Adding some G+ to ocTEL

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As I was setting up this blog earlier this afternoon I hesitated at using WordPress; considered Tumblr but remembered that tags don’t work well there and considered G+ but remebered I’ve never really got it. So here we are on WordPress. BUT I’m going to do some chatting over on G+ in the ocTEL G+ […]

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Week 0 Activities

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Week 0 is Induction for ocTEL.  It runs for a little over a week: from 4th to 14th April. There is a checklist of things to do: Post a short summary about yourself #ocTEL Explore the ocTEL site and course discussions http://octel.alt.ac.uk Make sure you can login and edit your profile if you wish Check […]

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Here we MOOC again

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Over the coming weeks I’ll be participating in #ocTEL and I plan to keep my contibutions here. This is the second MOOC I’ve dipped into; I participated in Coursera’s HCI course for a while last year & created a similar notes blog. I’ll probably only be dipping in to ocTEL as I’m outside of the […]

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