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- web 2.0, e-learning, talking nonsense
- About Me:
- Damien DeBarra was born in 1975 and grew up in Clontarf, north Dublin, Ireland. Having insulted just about every man, woman and child in Ireland and Britain, he then decided to chuck it all in and leg it somewhere warm. He then spent a year and a half going slowly mad in Valencia, Spain.
After a terrifying experience in an illegal Valencian all-night kebab shop and night-club (involving hallucinogenic drugs, dehydration and a woman in an Elvis suit) he scarpered to the UK and now lives in London, England. He doesn't talk to anyone and passes the time smiling at people on the tube.
He now works in the e-learning sector : spending his days poring over social networking sites and writing multimedia learning solutions for NCALT (www.ncalt.com). His general internet activities involve Instructional Design, social network facilitation, general web 2.0 wankery, stalking ex-girlfriends and writing ill-considered, and utterly pointless blogs.
He's currently studying for a MsC. in e-learning in the University of Edinburgh.
Before all of that he spent several bizarre, but wonderful, years working in the National Museum of Ireland, in Dublin, specialising in schools liason and education. Late at night, he can still hear the screaming.
Before embarking/wandering into his career of 'guerilla education', he attended NUI Maynooth studying English Literature and Classical Civilisation, where his passion for all things ancient and odd began. He is a regular contributor to Blather.net- writing on a variety of subjects. His key interests are Archaeology, Graveyards and Graverobbers, Things That Go Bump InThe Night and a Good Rubber Chicken.
He is still, making a less than fruitful attempt (sixty-seven drafts and counting) to write what is now laughingly referred to as his first 'novel'.
He is, according to Prof. Conor Ryan (Dean Emeritus of Literature at the University of Muncie, Indiana) a 'staggeringly bad writer'.
- Website:
- http://www.blather.net/index.htm
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Anyway, this is the Permanent Beta blog.
Posted on June 30, 2008 at 3:30am — 2 Comments
Using Ning
Of all the web 2.0 tools and technologies which I've come across (and there's been a few) ning.com is the one that has most impressed me. I've built about six networks on here, for a variety of purposes. Unfortunately the two professional networks which I run are password protected (as I work for the Police services of the UK) and the content is sensitive.
But in addition to these 'professional' netw… Continue
Posted on April 18, 2008 at 6:00am — 3 Comments
Udutu killed the Instructional Designer
Seriously folks. It's all over. Udutu have released a free to use, online e-learning creaton content platform which builds scorm compliant courses which are a doddle to use and a doddle to export. This may do to the e-learning business what blogging did to journalism.
Vist Udutu
Posted on March 14, 2008 at 4:05am — 7 Comments
9/11, Andrew Keen and the impossible search for 'the truth'
In February 2007, Blather.net issued a challenge to the 911 Truth Movement. We said: "It's time to up the game. Time to get better. Time
to write better blogs, make better movies and ask better questions.
We're sorry, but Loose Change and the 9/11 conspiracy theorists are
just not doing that right now." But now, it seems, somebody has upped the game: one… Continue
Posted on December 18, 2007 at 3:56am — 2 Comments
Battlefield 2: A Policing Game?
Note: this entry was originally submitted to the MsC in E-learning 'Game Design' Module in November 2007 to Hamish MacCleod (tutor) as a mid-term paper.
This review will examine the game 'Battlefield 2' with a view towards an educational adaptation for Police training - an adaptation which seeks
… ContinuePosted on December 12, 2007 at 8:32am — 1 Comment
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