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?
I note that the BBC has generated a Wordle image for Barack Obama’s inaugural speech.
Once again it’s time for the BETT Show. The self-styled “largest educational technology show in the world.” For the first hour or so I wondered what on earth I was doing there as I heard one salesman after another explain how their product is loved by students, will improve their…
We’ve added a couple of widgets from Google Friends Connect. Friends Connect has various social networking widgets that can be added to any web site with the idea, according to Google, that “Google Friend Connect means more people engaging more deeply…… with each other.” You’ll need a Google account to…
Chuck E. Jones on Ancient World Bloggers has discussed “Web 2.0 and Beyond: New Tools for Archaeological Collaboration and Communication“. The presentations from Web 2.0 and Beyond: New Tools for Archaeological Collaboration and Communication (Vancouver, March 26-30, 2008) are now online. There are short abstracts of the presentations.
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