Many of you signed up members of the Learning Lab will be familiar with the Alan Levine’s CogDogBlog (and if you aren’t grab the RSS feed today!). Well today, Alan published an article on how he used cooliris to put together an amazing presentation on e-learning. You just have to…
At the risk of blowing my own trumpet I thought I’d publicise the fact that I have now a small but growing collection of screencasts hosted on ScreenCast.com in a special Learning Lab folder. I also just noticed that Screencast.com allows subscription to this collection with iTunes and RSS. The…
“Ed Techie” (Martin Weller) recommended a new on-line resource for educators wanting to learn about e-learning. The resource is called Onramp and it’s being published by Jennifer (Jen) Jones on her blog Jenuity.com. Although I’ve only just discovered it and have only read the introductions and “lesson” 1 of the…
The Good Childhood Inquiry by Richard Layard argues that “excessive individualism” is to blame for many of the problems children face. In an earlier Learning Lab post, I mused on the connections between individualism, the drive towards personalisation and Layard’s earlier work. Does the emphasis on structuring learning around how…
During a Lunch and Learn session I was doing on Planning and Integrating E-Learning, I mentioned demonstrating and if you were going to do a demonstration you could consider videoing it and uploading the resulting movie for students to access either at their leisure or in future years so you…
I must confess to being confused about what a Personal Learning Environment (PLE) is. Having just watched Graham Atwell’s new slide cast on the topic, I can agree that a PLE should be an environment that allows “accessing and searching, aggregating and scaffolding, manipulating, analysing, storing, reflecting, presenting, re-presenting and sharing.” But…
In today’s excellent lunch-and-lean session, Matthew Allen told us how to take the fear out of e-learning by thinking about how traditional teaching methods may be enhanced by technology. In other words, we should regard e-learning is a means to an end, and not the end itself. These insights are…
Any blogger worth his or her salt will eventually need to make use of an RSS Feed Aggregator to keep up to date with all the information that’s out there. My personal favourite is Google Reader, which I use over breakfast instead of a newspaper to catch up on interesting…
We have been trying out some ideas for some podcasting episodes to support modules in Greek archaeology. These have been recorded in the field. But what about recording a podcast in front of the computer? I have been trying out some ideas with my poetry. ‘Gloucestershire in the Negev’ is…
The BBC has an interesting comment on the rise of Twitter. Twitter, the mobile phone-based micro-blogging service, rocketed nearly 1000% in use in the UK over the past year according to industry analysts HitWise. And what are you doing right now?
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