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Continue reading →: The Praxis of Ideas (Why Computer Science is Awesome)
There has been a lot of coverage of ICT education in the UK press over the last few months, including a number noting how poorly ICT at School prepares students for real Computer Science. The relationship between ICT and Computer Science is part of the problem, as ICT seems to…
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Continue reading →: You Can Type This Shit, John Carter…Last week I managed to get to the cinema to watch John Carter (who is definitely not from Mars, no Sir, not at all) a 250 million dollar Disney extravaganza, carefully pitched at people who don’t like Sci-fi or Fantasy, but do like epic escapist legends set on other planets.…
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Continue reading →: RedFeather: Light and Fluffy OERWe’ve been building teaching and learning repositories at Southampton for a number of years now, ever since we were brought into a couple of projects dealing with Learning Objects and decided that there really must be a better way. I’ve written before about the EdShare software we created and how…
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Continue reading →: Out with the Old Web, in with the NewAs a researcher interested in Digital Literacy and Personal Learning Environments I often am arguing that there is an increased trend for students and staff to break free of University systems and strike out on their own. After all, why struggle with your IT department to get a blog up…
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Continue reading →: Camelot: A Charmless Making
There is something wrong about Camelot, the new TV telling of the Arthurian Legend. It could be the stilted acting, it might be the anachronistic language of the script, perhaps it is the fact that Eva Green always makes me feel a little ill (I swear that woman has a…
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Continue reading →: Chasing EdShare: In Pursuit of a Usable Teaching and Learning Repository
The last five years or so has been an incredible time to be involved in e-learning. We’ve seen the rise and demise of the Digital Native, the flight and delight of students and academics to Web 2.0 systems, and the attempted murder of the VLE (we now know that reports…
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Continue reading →: How To VoteSo later this year the UK will go to the polls for a referendum on changing our voting system. It will be the first national referendum since 1975. It will also be a massive waste of time and money. Now if we were proposing changing the voting system to something…
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Continue reading →: In Defence of the Academy
Given that we are no longer to spend public money on higher education the new deal for students is progressive and better than their current financial arrangements – but goodness that misses the point! The thing that we all seem to have forgotten is that there is no given and…
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Continue reading →: Rise of the Other WebIsn’t the Web great? Isn’t it crazy and anarchic, vibrant and wild, unpredictable, awesome and thoroughly marvelous? Well it has been, but there is no guarantee that it will stay that way. I’ve been working with and researching Hypertext for nearly fifteen years. The Hypertext systems that I studied for…
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Continue reading →: IPhone 4. Slightly Better. Again.About a fortnight ago I managed to wrestle a shiny new iPhone 4 out of the University. It’s a long and frankly uninteresting story full of needless hoop jumping and energy-sapping effort. Suffice to say that I fought hard for this little device. Two years ago I wrote about why…
Welcome,
I’m David
I am Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton, UK within the Data, Intelligence, and Society group in ECS. I am also Head of the Education Group within ECS with the goal of improving education across the whole of Electronics and Computer Science in a meaningful, healthy, and sustainable way.
My research roots are in Hypertext, but my current interests are in Interactive Digital Narratives, Mixed Reality Games, and AI Knowledge Interfaces.
David Millard 