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A personal blog entry, really.  After a month of car trouble, which has been rather expensive, I am looking forward to a busy month.  I have been invited to a BectaX event : "#BectaX will congregate the very best thinkers and doers from education, digital media and policy. Together they will explore how pedagogic theories can be turned into learner-shaped education for the 21st Century"

Had a great informal session with members of Reading University Students' Union today, introducing the ideas of Digital Identity and giving a brief introduction to the latest This Is Me Workbook.

Today we had a coffee meeting - it was nice to see some of lecturers out of their offices/lecture theatres, and having a chat about research, life, the universe and everything.  I like the venue, in our Students' Union, but they do have the music rather too loud to be able to have a civilized conversation, which is a shame.  On the other hand, they do the best coffee on campus (in my opinion) and you can sit outside, where the music is at least at a more manageable level - but I guess most people prefer the temperature indoors!

I do like Doodle for fixing meeting times, if you haven't tried it it is definitely worth a try: http://www.doodle.com/

However there are certain frustrations with Doodle when other people are slow at completing polls, I find that I have a number of times in my diary marked (meeting?) and we still haven't actually finalised the meeting we were doodling for.

We have just finalised a new workbook for Health Professionals who want to explore their Digital Identity.

As with previous workbooks it is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike licence, which means others can re-use (as long as they attribute), this worked really well with teh first workbook and spread our word far.

You can download for free from our Lulu store http://stores.lulu.com/odinlab, or pay a small amount and have a paper copy delivered to your door!

At the moment, the notifications mechanism for people requesting to join groups is not as good as it could be.  One way to ease this up is to have open groups (certainly an option, but rather undermining some of the privacy options we have striven to have in place!).