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.

Webinar: Overview of cMOOC platform trends and creating your own open online course using WordPress 15th May 16:30BST

Posted on May 8, 2013 by

Martin Hawksey Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

As part of ocTEL on the 15th May at 16:30BST (check in your own timezone) I’ll be doing a webinar on platforms for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), in particular focusing on some of the connectivist style recipes I’m aware of. As part of this I’ll be taking participants behind the scenes of the ocTEL […]

Tagged with: #ocTEL, Infrastructure, mooc

Tapping the rhizomes of dotlife: Creating an RSS search feed for Scoop.it posts

Posted on May 7, 2013 by

Martin Hawksey Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

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’

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

Dashboarding your WordPress bbPress forums to gain quick top level insight

Posted on May 2, 2013 by

Martin Hawksey Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

The term ‘dashboard’ currently seems to have a similar effect to marmite, you either love it or hate it. In this post I show how you can create an activity data endpoint for bbPress forums which can be dashboarded in Google Spreadsheets

Tagged with: #ocTEL, analytics, Infrastructure, mooc, Open Course

#ocTEL- an open online course recipe using WordPress

Posted on April 30, 2013 by

Martin Hawksey Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

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 yourself and refine where necessary. Also it’s worth remembering that even though the course is in progress the recipe is being continually […]

Tagged with: #ocTEL, Infrastructure, mooc, Open Course

What I’ve starred this month: April 28, 2013

Posted on April 28, 2013 by

Martin Hawksey Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

Here’s some posts which have caught my attention this month: SFC Further and Higher Education ICT Strategy – summary and reflections – April 23, 2013 6 Free Realtime Google Analytics Dashboards | Notes – Dan Barker – April 22, 2013 Behavio Team Joins Google, Shuts Down Behavior Tracker Project – April 14, 2013 Half an […]

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