Last week was the annual BETT Show http://www.bettshow.com/, which this year has moved to the ExCel Arena in London’s Docklands. Apart from being the wrong side of London it was a much better venue than in previous years. All the usual big tech companies were there with tablets, tablets and…
Chris Jobling has been exploring ways of enhancing the Community of Practice we have around learning & teaching and has suggested we run some regularish lunch time sessions in a similar vein to Bitly http://blog.bitly.com/post/63379760709/lunch-and-learn-why-we-do-it-and-why-you-should-too The idea is not to run training session or a full on seminar. At Bitly…
Good morning all, I just wanted to draw your attention to some of the resources available on the SALT website. Did you know that we have a wiki that is crammed with useful resources and tools that academics have found useful in their teaching? Found on the Community tab on…
Audrey Waters recently visited Seymour Papert and I liked her comment that, “MOOC providers making headlines with claims of the latest ed tech revolution desperately need to read Mindstorms” It’s one of my favourite books and was written by Seymour Papert. Every ‘SALTer’ should know about Papert as we have…
Would you like to present content from your phone? Fed up of being blinded by the overhead projector? A new product from Google might help. Google have released Chromecast, which aims to make any TV a Smart TV – although it’s only available only in the US at the moment.…
A guest post follow-up from the SALT Conference Round Table Session by Sam Oakley, ISS Many thanks to all those who squeezed round the table at this year’s SALT Conference – the discussion was wide-ranging and thought-provoking and inevitably ran out of time! This blog post summarizes key points made…
Stephen Downes hasn’t managed to provoke any action in me recently, other than to leave his daily email unread. He has enjoyed talking about MOOCs much more than is healthy for months now, and I could take no more. I’m especially glad therefore, that I decided to have glance through…
I recently attended a conference run by National Training Resources Limited on the subject of Learning Technology and Innovation. One of the primary reasons for attending was to try and glean ideas for developing some purely online courses as part of the Work Based Learning Project in Engineering, but also…
Paul Edwards form the University of Michigan writes – ‘You’ve seen it a hundred times. The speaker approaches the head of the room and sits down at the table. (You can’t see him/her through the heads in front of you.) S/he begins to read from a paper, speaking in a soft monotone.…
I’ve been involved in a few MOOCs before and have been exploring them from the point of view of my day job. So far I’ve not managed to complete one but it hasn’t been the reason I’ve been following them. Some, especially the ones on the subject of learning technology itself have had bewildering amounts of…
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