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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Linking Research and Teaching

A series of papers, Linking research and teaching in Wales, edited by Simon K Haslett (York: Higher Education Academy, 2010) is now available [pdf]. There are three Swansea University papers: David Gill, ‘Collecting Egyptian Antiquity’, considering the use of Web 2.0 technologies in MA modules. Kasia Szpakowska, ‘Problems and practice…

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Move over Audacity?

Well not really because Audacity is a powerful audio editor but for making podcasts quickly and easily? Maybe? I’ve been having a play with Myna from a Aviary, which I picked up from Free Technology for Teachers. It’s pretty straight forward to use and is web based so that you…

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Web 3.0 has arrived?

Several people are getting quite exited about the new version of the Opera web browser, which includes something called Opera Unite. Stephen Downes goes as far as to call it the start of Web 3.0. There is a good overview at Mashable.Together with Google Wave, is the a significant shift…

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Web 2.0 and Archaeology

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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Always Have a Plan B

In the “olden days” when I used to go to conferences, the availability of a data projector and the right version of PowerPoint could be a bit of a lottery, and so I always used to take along a set of slides printed on transparent foils so that I could…

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Presenting the Web on the Web with Flowgram

On reading my RSS feeds today, I came across Flowgram, a new online presentation application that combines elements of SlideShare (it can handle PowerPoint presentations and audio narration) with a feature that allows live web pages and RSS feeds to appear in the presentation. The site itself describes a flowgram…

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