Here are the Urban Dictionary’s definitions of “loved up”. For the record, I was unaware of the drug-use connotation when I wrote my last email. Exactly what I did mean, I leave to your imagination. Which, judging by the feedback to the email, is vivid. Click to enlarge

Some very well-informed discussion of VLE issues going on over at Zacker’s blog at the moment. If you are trying to gen up on VLEs generally, read the comments on his Sakai vs. Moodle post. Never mind that it’s about Sakai, which is virtually unknown in the UK. What’s really useful in the debate is…

I’m getting it in the neck from two sides at the moment. One or two teachers who identify with the Open Source movement have passed comments suggesting that our online services Paperless School and Yacapaca are somehow morally inferior because we are a commercial company. Meanwhile, colleagues in online publishing are looking askance because we’ve…

Doug pointed me to this discussion on wiki textbooks (MP3, 29MB). They are talking about interesting stuff, but it’s an hour long! In that hour, the three presenters could easily have created, edited and refined a really good wiki page that would have done the same page at least as well. I could have read…

Until recently the majority of educational blogs have been aimed at HE. That’s starting to change, not before time. Ian Usher from Bucks LEA is now writing about his experiences with Moodle, Fronter and Think, amongst others, in Changing the Game. Looks like it will be a really useful read. Welcome to blogging, Ian!