The Twitter Experiment: Using Twitter in lectures

Dr. Rankin, professor of History at University of Texas, Dallas, wanted to know how to reach more students and involve more people in class discussions both in and out of the classroom. She had heard of Twitter… She collaborated with the UT Dallas, Arts and Technology – Emerging Media and…

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Blackboard Seminar in York

Combining face-to-face teaching with on-line activities is a challenging task. Blackboard and York University have partnered to provide this one-day workshop which aims to outline a range of models which may be employed to create an effective blend, with a specific focus on approaches to collaborative learning. The workshop will…

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Natives or Residents?

A video version of Dave White’s presentation from ALT-C on Visitors and Residents. From the TALL Bloghttp://tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk/index.php/2009/10/14/visitors-residents-the-video/

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Who needs a translator?

Problems with getting web pages translated before they can go live? Can’t understand that Hindi web site? Google say they have the answer. I’m not really sure if it works though. I’ve added the script to one of the Learning Lab pages http://learninglab.swan.ac.uk/lta If you speak another language, have a…

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Post Digital?

Dave White puts an interesting argument in his TALL blog about the concept of Post Digital. Educational Technologist always being obsessed with the new at the expense of any real progress. Brian Kelly writes an interesting response and includes the following video from the ALT-C fringe, where the issues was…

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Multitasking, schmultitasking?

Are you good at multitasking? Hmmm….. really? According to researchers at Stanford, you may be kidding yourself. “The low multitaskers did great………The high multitaskers were doing worse and worse the further they went along…….They couldn’t help thinking about the task they weren’t doing” You can find out more herehttp://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/august24/multitask-research-study-082409.html

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Learning Technologists Anonymous?

Many men and women have heard or read about the unique Fellowship called Learning Technologists Anonymous since its founding. People who once used learning technology to excess, finally acknowledged that they could not handle learning technology in its current form, and now live a new way of life. 1. We…

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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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