As noted in Alan Cann’s Science of the Invisible, EU funded funded project iCamp has published a handbook on “How to Use Social Software in Higher Education” and it’ll be on my “to read list” over the Easter break. The iCamp site itself looks to be worth monitoring.
Another SlideShare presentation from the School of Engineering’s Research Project module. This one has an embedded YouTube video. Because I wanted to refer to web sites in this presentation (and so avoid plagiarism myself) I started out using flowgram.com for this. Unfortunately, there is something wrong with the PowerPoint upload…
I have created a new slidecast which is on writing a research dissertation. It’s aimed at level 3 students in Engineering, but there may be parts that you can use and adapt for your own courses. The presentation is released under a creative commons license. How To Write Your Research…
“Electronic information may be easier for people to retain, yet it is also more ephemeral, and forgettable, than the printed word, and its burgeoning popularity may herald a brave new world in which no one holds on to anything, not even a thought.” Richard Fallis, “Thanks for the Memories” CILIP…
“It’s no wonder young people love it, according to reports about young people by middle-aged people.” The Daily Show With Jon StewartM – Th 11p / 10c Twitter Frenzy Daily Show Full EpisodesImportant Things With Demetri Martin Political HumorJoke of the Day
On-line papers for “Transforming Classical Studies Through Cyberinfrastructure” appear on the digital humanities quarterly (Winter 2009: v3 n1) website.
I was intrigued enough by this blog post from Darrell Etherington at Web Worker Daily to sign up with remindo.com and in so doing, created a corporate social network for swansea.ac.uk! On the face of it, this new beta social network service seems to have a lot going for it.…
Today I typed learninglab into my web browser’s address bar with the intention of visiting Swansea University’s hottest web destination. And I was intrigued by how many sites Google and Live Search threw up as suggested destinations. Quite a few are apparently concerned with the same things that Swansea’s Learning…
The recent, now retracted, changes to Facebook’s terms of service have created quite a furore. It was the notion that Facebook could use your content for any purpose, even if you’ve removed it and then deleted your account, that had most people up in arms. So, Facebook wanted to take…
From the Reverend on Bava Tuesdays I was grateful to receive notification of this brilliant presentation on the prospects for the future of education from Andre Malan, an undegraduate student at the University of British Columbia. It is so good, I feel that it’s worth putting on the learning lab…
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