Forcing the NetTiers javascript calendar control to use UK dates

Published January 12, 2010 Programming Leave a Comment
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I’ve been using nettiers 2.3.0 with a new project that uses a lot of date fields.

I’ve had a problem with using the javascript calendar control that is produced with netTiers, in that it uses the American style date format mm/dd/yyyy. On DB set up for UK dates this causes a date conversion error.

At first I was hoping this could be ‘fixed’ by changing the culture info in the generated web.config file – to something like

However the nettiers js calendar control has no such built in globalisation logic.

It does however have a CalendarControl.js file where the string generated by the control is hard coded. So to make this generate UK style dates you simply need to change var dateString = month+”-”+day+”-”+year to var dateString = day+”-”+month+”-”+year

Using Technology to Enhance Your Teaching

Published November 25, 2009 21stCenturySkills , Ed Tech , Elearning , Workshops Leave a Comment

Thanks to all those who attended the recent “Using Technology to Enhance Your Teaching” workshop. I really enjoyed the session, especially hearing your stories about the technologies that you use in your teaching.

I’ve included all the materials used on the day and the mind map that we created from the activities that constitute your teaching.

The Slides

The Handout

The Mind Map

(Click on the image for the actual map)

George Veletsianos’s Slides

(see also George’s blog for more discussion in this area)

Some Reading
(See also http://delicious.com/tag/tech4training)

Handbook of Emerging Technologies”

Blogging with students… how and why

“Top 100 tools for learning 2009″

Tutorial on creating a blog and using RSS

Social Media Classroom – resources about teaching participatory media

How to create a blog with Blogger

7 things you should know about micro blogging

A write up of the “Twitter Experiment” – using twitter in a lecture setting

Rhizomatic Education : Community as Curriculum

Using Technology to Enhance Your Research

Published November 11, 2009 21stCenturySkills , Workshops 2 Comments

Here are the resources for today’s 2 hour workshop for research staff. I’ll up date with items from the discussions after the event.
The Slides


The Handouts

Integrating technology into researcher training

Published September 15, 2009 21stCenturySkills , Elearning Leave a Comment

I recently delivered a workshop at the Vitae Researcher Development conference in Warwick, called “Integrating technology into researcher training”.

The session looked at how researcher trainers can begin to incorporate technologies within their training.

The hands on session combined some practical activities with discussion about the best approaches, practicalities and potential pitfalls of using technology.

The slides and links to the artifacts used in the session are listed below.

1) The Slides

2) The Blog

3) The Mindmap

4) The Audience

Sharing Learning Designs – your thoughts

Published July 10, 2009 Uncategorized Leave a Comment

I’ve been spending some time recently thinking about the topic of learning designs and the sharing of ideas, resources etc.  Of particular interest is:

  • How do we articulate our designs?
  • How do we encourage collaboration on designs?

There has been a lot of activity over at Cloudworks in relation to this, not least from a recent Olnet workshop looking at these issues.

I’ve used a visual design tool called Compendium LD to create and document a learning design for some training I’m due to deliver. The training session involves facilitating trainers in looking at how they make greater use of technology in their training. The design shows a sequence of activities and links to the resources that will be used in the session (apart from the slides which are embedded below :) ) (The learning design is best viewed in Internet Explorer as the links to appear to work in FireFox :( )

What I’d like to know is:

  • Does the learning design with links to resources enable other trainers to utilise the design?
  • What’s missing?
  • What is good/ bad about the learning design?
  • Are there better ways to present or collate these artifacts?


Published May 20, 2009 Ed Tech , Elearning , Pedagogy Leave a Comment
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An excellent video by Wendy and Alex Drexler that explores the ideas of connectivism and how this relates to education. It gives some excellent concrete examples about the sorts of technologies that allow learners to connect to and manage information.

The Crisis of Credit

Published February 20, 2009 Elearning , Misc Leave a Comment
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This is an excellent video detailing the story of the credit crunch. I posted it as a AAA example of a electronic learning resource.

Proposal for e-pedagogy journal club

Published February 9, 2009 Elearning , Pedagogy Leave a Comment
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I would like to propose an online e-pedagogy journal club here at good ole’ Manchester University. I thought I’d blog my thoughts on the subject and then throw it open for discussion.

So here goes.

Purpose – To allow contributors to both discuss and propose journals on the subject of integrating technology and teaching. With the aim of enhancing our understanding and application of e-pedagogy
Target Audience – E-learning Techies and interested Academics and anyone involved with designing and delivering programmes
Engagement/Committments – 1 journal article per month to be selected by either a) a rotating choice by the members or b) online vote
Tools – Journals to be submitted to the social citation website 2collab.com discussion can either take place face to face or online via synchronous or asychronous tools. I propose the use of a wiki to coordinate the club.

I don’t mind coordinating the techie bits (wiki etc).

So is the suggestion:
a) something you’re interested in
b) ok in it’s detail?

All comments greatly appreciated

21st Century Technology Tools – Tutorials for Teachers

Published December 18, 2008 Ed Tech 2 Comments
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Just thought I’d quickly post this “e-book”21st Century Technology Tools – Tutorials for Teachers.

Is is written by Liz B. Davis who works in Belmont Hill School in the US.

EduMash – "Using Web2.0 for experience based learning"

Published December 12, 2008 Elearning , Pedagogy Leave a Comment
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Just had to post this. Is is a taster session for www.vitae-project.eu. (by foxdenuk)
Web2 for experience based learning
Is is a great example of:
a) mashing up various online tools for educational purposes (I found the presentation on their Ning community, the presentation itself is on Slide Boom, Graham Atwell’s video about personal learning environments is on youtube)
b) active, online, experience based learning – that leaves the learner with control over the artifacts they produce as part of the learning.

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