New Tool: WebSlides

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…

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Dropbox

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.

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Practical Advice for Teaching with Twitter

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…

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New e-Learning book with free online chapter

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…

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Diigo – A social bookmarking site for the tenties?

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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New Course on Personal Learning Environments

The middle of September, from 13th of September to be precise, I will be involved in another open online course. After our course on Critical Literacies over the summer the course this time will be about our bread and butter, Personal Learning Environments. Stephen Downes and I will be working…

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Twitter Community List

If you visit the Swansea Learning Lab blog regularly, you may have noticed the Learning Lab on Twitter feature at the right (if you are reading this in a Feed reader, please visit the live blog page now!). At the moment this shows the top 4 “tweets” posted by @swanlearninglab…

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