Turnitin User Group, 16 June 2014

You could do worse than abbrieviate the Turnitin User Group meeting to the TUG meeting, suggesting a slow boat that is finally pulling in the right direction. Whilst some might say some of these changes are overdue, I did leave this session with the impression that Turnitin are truely trying…

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Periodic Table of Videos

These are great !  Really great ! Shame we don’t have a Chemistry department any more … Wait … I can hear the Secret Campus Police breaking down the Grade 1 listed doors in the old library, coming to drag me off to my cell for heresy – again … …

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Learning to Teach On-line …

“I think a long time ago, I thought it was going to be time saving. But I haven’t found it to be time saving. I wonder whether the powers that be, think that it might be time saving …” (Dr Catherine Suttle – Lecturer, School of Optometry and Vision Services,…

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iPad 2

The BBC’s Rory Cellan-Jones has been trying out the iPad 2 launched today. He demonstrates the new video capability.

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Confessions of a Converted Lecturer: Eric Mazur

Last week, Paul Lattreille lead a SALT Seminar on Teaching Large Groups. I’m hoping someone from this community will report on that session in more detail, but as an appetizer here’s a talk by Harvard Physics Professor Eric Mazur, that gives some justification for one of the ideas, Peer Instruction, that…

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Passion in L&T

Kathy Sierra is an inspirational educator who created the excellent “Head First” series of self-learning books for O’Reilly. She famously ended her public blog “Creating Passionate Users” and stopped appearing in public after receiving death threats back in April 2007 … an incident that made national news at the time.…

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Winkball Video wall

I saw this on Click. Winkball is a video sharing site where you can record video messages, sending video messages, create your own video blog, make video walls and have multi-user video chats. The video walls can be both public and private. Useful for modules? I’ve set one up with…

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iMovie for the PC?

Well, not really but Microseft have released Windows Live Movie Maker which is a great improvement on the original Movie Maker and is getting close to what iMovie can do. Now maybe those wit out a Mac can get close to to achieving what David Gill does 🙂 You can…

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Video blogging

Christopher Ming Ryan writes about how to use video blogs (v-blogs): “4 Mistakes Video Bloggers Make and How You Can Avoid Them”.

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