Our friends at @rscwales have today re-tweeted Mary Jacob’s (@msjacob) announcement of new case studies in technology enhanced learning (TEL) hosted on the Aberystwyth University Nexus site (nexus.aber.ac.uk). On an initial scan, I was particularly taken with Grade Centre for electronic learning portfolios by Ayla Göl because I believe that…
What have the subjects in the title of this post got in common ? Well, they are all part of the offerings in the new app from the British Library (£2.39 iPhone and Android, £3.49 for the iPad). The Treasures app is designed to enable you to interact with over…
You might be able to flog them to a student ! Some surprises from a recent Book Industry Study Group survey (America’s leading book industry association according to their website) suggesting students aren’t quite as keen to jump onto the e-book bandwagon just yet. This report on the research claims…
Stephen Wolfram has recently announced the availability of the first of a planned series of “course assistant” apps: An App for Every Course, and More. These apps, which are powered by Wolfram|Alpha and cost $1.99 (£1.19) for Algebra and Music Theory and $2.99 (£1.79) for Calculus, have the potential to…
Our Canadian correspondent (well … Stephen Downes actually, but never spoil a good story for the sake of the truth … as they say) suggests an interesting idea. Namely: “to consider the oft-repeated (especially by teachers) requirement for ‘training’ in new technology to be code for I don’t want to…
Matthew Allen made an interesting point about browsers. Looting Matters has been collecting this information and IE is still in the lead followed by Firefox with Safari and Chrome quite a way behind. I have noticed that more people are using phones to access information and iPads (from several locations)…
News reaches us in the ivory library tower that Firefox (in Europe at least) has finally overtaken Internet Explorer. Statcounter shows that in December 2010, in Europe, Fifefox pushed Microsoft’s offering into second place. However, more and more people are getting interested in Google’s Chrome, especially now that the Chrome…
I am grateful to Pete Phillips at St John’s College, Durham for drawing my attention to the Prezi app for the iPad.
This set of 27 ten minute videos by Prof. Curt Bonk (I have his book on Empowering Online Learning sitting on my desk if anyone is interested …) is intended to get your mind moving in the right direction if you are going to be delivering online. http://travelinedman.blogspot.com/2010/11/announcing-v-portal-video-primers-in.html Every video…
Whilst trawling through a backlog of Stephen Downes’ outpourings I saw this. You can find it here: http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2010/12/super-book-of-web-tools-for-educators.html I know it is aimed at K-12, which isn’t actually us here, but pretend you hadn’t noticed that bit and have a look anyway as there are some nice resources here (including…
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