My first Podcast of the Week over in Fresh and Crispy was James Clay’s e-Learning Stuff. The latest episode (episode 61) is a small gem in which ILT & Learning Resources Manager at Gloucestershire College James Clay interviews Zak Mensah of JISC Digital Media about ten new advice publications that have…
Every year, around this time, I make a presentation to Level 3 Engineers and Sports Scientists as part of a series of briefings on their dissertation project. And every year, this presentation Research Techniques and Tools serves to highlight a new web-based presentation technology. Back in 2008, I used a…
The Apple site has a feature on the use of the iPad for fieldwork at Pompeii. Professor Steven Ellis from the University of Cincinnati commented: Ellis, who estimates that iPad has already saved him a year of data entry, plans to increase the number of iPad devices from one to…
Without a doubt, the star of ALT-C 2010 (at least so far) was Prof. Sugata Mitra (who tweets as @sugatam). His keynote, The hole in the wall: self organising systems in education, was entertaining, mind boggling and exptremely inspirational. You can get a pretty good flavour of the talk from…
Today I attended one the invited paper sessions at the ALT-C 2010 conference, that is on at Nottingham at the moment, as a “virtual” delegate. While not there, I observed something that I think is worth reporting and reflecting on. I attended an invited session, which was being broadcast, via…
Just a quick note to draw your attention to an interesting new service that I discovered today. WebSlides (slides.diigo.com) is a service of Diigo.com that can turn an RSS feed or a set of tagged bookmarks into a slide show. This is a great way to create a learning object…
Do you need to send large files without clogging up email? What about sharing files between your office desktop and a laptop? PC and Mac or iPhone? It is worth taking a look at Dropbox. For the features see here.
This interesting post from the Prof Hacker blog in the Chronicle of Higher Education discusses how you might use Twitter in your teaching. The assumption is that students will be expected to contribute to an ongoing class discussion, which might not be how you’d want to do things, but for…
WEB 2.0-BASED E-LEARNING: APPLYING SOCIAL INFORMATICS FOR TERTIARY TEACHING ISBN: 978-1-60566-294-7; 483 pp; July 2010 Published under the imprint Information Science Reference (formerly Idea Group Reference) http://igi-global.com/Bookstore/TitleDetails.aspx?TitleId=40272 Edited by: Mark J. W. Lee, Charles Sturt University, AustraliaCatherine McLoughlin, Australian Catholic University, Australia DESCRIPTION Educational communities today are rapidly increasing their…
Today, I participated in the weekly early #lrnchat on Twitter. And very useful it was too. Today’s topic was Knowledge Management Tools and during the discussion a couple of new ones that I was not aware of were mentioned. Of these, I think it’s worth talking a bit more about…
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