Richard Millwood

The Learning Through Enquiry Alliance conference at Sheffield University is a breath of fresh air - practitioner led, but research oriented, but above all a sense of camaraderie with many others struggling with the ideas we have been exploring for the last five years.
A ‘world café’ exercise to break the ice led to my re-draft […]

My first post about TeachMeet was a hurried blog in case Ewan offered a prize for the first person to Blog the event!
More reflection, and waiting until the end, allows a more thoughtful blog which fills in some of the blanks.
Blank 1 - why speak about delight?

It was delightful to be able to speak about […]

Great fun here in Redbridge Teachers’ Centre, free beer, good conversation and interesting ideas. As Ewan put it “Butlins for geeks”

I have been speaking on the issues surrounding Social Software in learning here at the Heads of eLearning Forum meeting in Coventry.
Here are my slides as a pdf

The participants in Learning@School have brought so many laptops it broke the wireless! I am here in New Zealand with Patrick to present at this massive teachers’ conference organised by Core Education. I have two workshops on ‘Delight in Learning’ and a keynote to present on ‘Learners at the Centre’ at the end. In fact […]

Here at TeachMeet enjoying the liveliest set of presentations and most enjoyable debate  - more fun than the rest of BETT put together.

I was pleased to present these slides at this international pre-BETT event organised by BESA and Steljes - it gave me a chance to glue together the thinking we have developed over the year in Core UK through our projects. Linking the National Archive of Educational Computing (hindsight) to our work to facilitate communities of […]

Shirley asks about reading:

What prompts students to read more relevant material?
Is there sufficient emphasis on appropriate wider reading in the module resources?
Are there sufficient opportunities for students to discuss their reading?
How can students make better use of libraries, both on and off line?
Is there a need for more help on assessing the credibility of reading […]