As I mentioned it at this morning’s E-Learning and Cakes session, I regularly read OUseful Info. Tony Hirst’s regularly updated blog is a great source of ideas for new ways to use and mash-up Web 2.0 goodies into E-Learning resources. Tony is an E-Learning Technologist at the Open University (OU),…
Newly bookmarked is this presentation by Clay Shirky (author of Here Comes Everybody, The Power of Organizing Without Organizations) about how better to use your free time. (Edited transcript here).The mesaage is “Don’t just sit there watching TV, do something with your cognitive surplus.” Recorded at the 2008 San Francisco…
How can we simplify the creation of bibliographies? One simple way is to use WorldCat. Here is a working introductory reading list for one of my MA modules on archaeological ethics. The list can be exported to Endnote, RefWorks, HTML or RTF. One glitch is that books in Swansea do…
I came across the Bryn Mawr Archaeology Students’ Blog. News stories, events, videos, etc. are shared in this forum. Is a blog more effective for sharing informal information than, say, Blackboard (in a Swansea context)? What are the advantages over a “closed” community on Facebook?
I recently attended a seminar at the University of Glamorgan on GlamStart (you need an account to access it). GlamStart is a new part of the University’s provision for student induction and initial orientation. It had been developed in close conjunction with, and to be an integrated part of the…
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Hi, As users of the learning lab wiki, I have a question for you. We’re in the process of moving the Learning Lab to a new server and one issue that has arisen is the wiki. The current wiki is here http://learninglab.swan.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php In attempt to make the wiki easier to…
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