Martin Hawksey

Author: Martin Hawksey

Martin Hawksey is Chief Innovation, Technology and Community Officer for ALT his work is focused on the development of ALT’s member services exploring how connectivist approaches can be used to support the community. This includes the application of data aggregation and dissemination techniques using existing open source platforms such as WordPress.

This is an archive of the 2013 version of ocTEL.

altc2013 building new connections: Notes on integrating Conferencer, BuddyPress, FeedWordPress and MailPress for a conference platform

Posted on September 9, 2013 by

Martin Hawksey Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

I’m not entirely sure what this post is. I started writing it on the train down to altc2013 and think it lost its focus between York and Sheffield. Essentially I wanted to write this to highlight some of the benefits of using BuddyPress as a way to capture user activity streams but at the same time some of the challenges of achieving an integrated experience using WordPress. I’ll let you decide it’s value and please feel free to comment (the ‘dirty code’ post will be a lot better).

Tagged with: #altc2013, Half baked, Infrastructure, WordPress

Horses for open courses: Making the backend of a MOOC with WordPress #altc2013

Posted on September 6, 2013 by

Martin Hawksey Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

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 instead got lost in how to box an open course.

Tagged with: #altc2013, Infrastructure, mooc

EOF/SOF: Building a connectivist conference platform for ALT-C using WordPress (first look)

Posted on July 30, 2013 by

Martin Hawksey Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

End of File/Start of File – before another era starts here are the beginnings of a connectivist inspired conference platform for ALT-C 2013 proudly powered by WordPress

Tagged with: #altc2013, Conference, Infrastructure, WordPress

[Presentation] ALT Scotland SIG: ALT’s ocTEL MOOC Experience

Posted on June 20, 2013 by

Martin Hawksey Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

Another day, another presentation. Today I’m at ALT Scotland’s SIG highlighting some of the experiences of developing/delivering the ocTEL open course. Slides are embedded below. This is a shorter version of a webinar I gave for ocTEL, a recording of this is here. ALT’s ocTEL MOOC experience: Designing the platform from Martin Hawksey

Tagged with: Infrastructure, Open Course, Presentation

[Event] ALT Scotland event – 20th June, Glasgow

Posted on June 10, 2013 by

Martin Hawksey Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

On the 20th June I have the pleasure of presenting some of the work around open courses I’ve been doing as part of ocTEL. The event is free and has a great list of other presenters working on open education in Scotland The ALT-Scotland special interest group will be hosting an event on Thursday 20th […]

Tagged with: Event, Open Course, Presentation

Creating a ‘full fat’ RSS feed for Google Gmail labels (enabling some dark social judo)

Posted on May 23, 2013 by

Martin Hawksey Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

In this post I want to cover three things. First I want to introduce a little app I’ve developed which allows you to create a RSS feed for any of your Gmail labels (with the option to remove certain links – useful if you don’t want others unsubscribing you from mailing lists). Secondly I explain how it was made and how you can use it yourself. Finally I want to discuss how this could be used in an open course environment, utilising the vast processing power from services like Twitter and reusing there target marketing emails to your benefit with a bit of ‘dark social judo’

Tagged with: Google Apps Script, Infrastructure, mooc, Open Course

mhawksey: Who's in the feedwordpress open course club? #DS106 #FSLT12 #FSLT13 #H817open #edcmooc #Octel #etmooc Others?

Posted on May 14, 2013 by

Martin Hawksey Posted in Social networks, Twitter (Q&A)

Who’s in the feedwordpress open course club? #DS106 #FSLT12 #FSLT13 #H817open #edcmooc #Octel #etmooc Others?— Martin Hawksey (@mhawksey) May 14, 2013

Tagged with: #h817open, #ocTEL, ds106, edcmooc, etmooc, fslt12, fslt13