The Twitter Experiment: Using Twitter in lectures

Dr. Rankin, professor of History at University of Texas, Dallas, wanted to know how to reach more students and involve more people in class discussions both in and out of the classroom. She had heard of Twitter… She collaborated with the UT Dallas, Arts and Technology – Emerging Media and…

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Blackboard Seminar in York

Combining face-to-face teaching with on-line activities is a challenging task. Blackboard and York University have partnered to provide this one-day workshop which aims to outline a range of models which may be employed to create an effective blend, with a specific focus on approaches to collaborative learning. The workshop will…

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Natives or Residents?

A video version of Dave White’s presentation from ALT-C on Visitors and Residents. From the TALL Bloghttp://tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk/index.php/2009/10/14/visitors-residents-the-video/

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History, Science and Heritage

I attended the History, Science and Heritage conference at the National Waterfront Museum today. The afternoon was sponsored by the Institute of Welsh Affairs and History Research Wales. Among the papers were: John Tucker, A national history of science Susan Fielding, Animating historical sites Andy Grierson, In search of Bronze…

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My First Prezi

Apart from providing context for the HEFCw-funded enhancement project “A Peer Support Platform”, the engineering dissertation module EG-353 Research Project provides many opportunities for trying out and sharing new and novel presentation media. One particular presentation, Research Tools and Techniques, is a show case of web 2.0 tools for managing…

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Who needs a translator?

Problems with getting web pages translated before they can go live? Can’t understand that Hindi web site? Google say they have the answer. I’m not really sure if it works though. I’ve added the script to one of the Learning Lab pages http://learninglab.swan.ac.uk/lta If you speak another language, have a…

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Post Digital?

Dave White puts an interesting argument in his TALL blog about the concept of Post Digital. Educational Technologist always being obsessed with the new at the expense of any real progress. Brian Kelly writes an interesting response and includes the following video from the ALT-C fringe, where the issues was…

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I added my first Sidewiki comment

Appropriately enough added to my own posterous.com blog posting about Sidewiki. Unexpected, but perhaps not suprising, was the discovery that as a Google “customer”, you can post your comments to your Blogger blog(s)! Twitter, Facebook and other social sharing possibilities surely must be close behind. in reference to: “In the…

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What do our students think?

I’m going though some of the Benchmarking data at the moment and was putting some though Wordle. Chris Jobling suggested I put some of the information here. So, here it is. There are three Wordles (is that a word?) based on questions that were asked to students. There were 960…

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Move over Audacity?

Well not really because Audacity is a powerful audio editor but for making podcasts quickly and easily? Maybe? I’ve been having a play with Myna from a Aviary, which I picked up from Free Technology for Teachers. It’s pretty straight forward to use and is web based so that you…

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