TEF 2 Progress

Mae’n ddrwg gennym ddim ar gael. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. By now I expect that you will have heard of the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) and how it will…

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WebPA and Peer Assessment

Mae’n ddrwg gennym ddim ar gael. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. The September IT month session on WebPA on the 12th of September had a look at this peer assessment…

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Intro to Blackboard session 9th September 2015

Mae’n ddrwg gennym ddim ar gael. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. Having spent most of the previous week fretting and being unreasonable to friends and family due to nerves at…

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Test news

Mae’n ddrwg gennym ddim ar gael. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. Test …

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A good use for Prezi !

Stephen Downes hasn’t managed to provoke any action in me recently, other than to leave his daily email unread. He has enjoyed talking about MOOCs much more than is healthy for months now, and I could take no more. I’m especially glad therefore, that I decided to have glance through…

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You know how like, Wikipedia is like, really bad …

Wikipedia has not always had the best of reps amongst academics … and that is probably putting it mildly ! The reasons are many and varied. I just searched for “why do academics hate Wikipedia ?” and got reasons including: “coz it iz smarter than they iz !” (obviously written…

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New Edition of the Educause Review

The latest edition is out now here: http://www.educause.edu/er From EDUCAUSE whose mission statement is “to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology” And they do have a go !

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Blackboard ? Open ?

© Copyright Dave Skinner and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence I’ve just finished brushing the dust off myself, which I picked up under my desk, having fallen off my chair in surprise after reading of Blackboard’s intentions ! Fasten your seat belts … and have a look…

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There is hope for me yet …

My Dad used to have one of these old reel to reel tape recorders. He had it all set up so he could record himself “murdering” (his word) on the piano whichever bit of popular easy listening had taken his fancy most recently. He was / still is actually pretty…

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