I'll get my coat …

Our Canadian correspondent (well … Stephen Downes actually, but never spoil a good story for the sake of the truth … as they say) suggests an interesting idea. Namely: “to consider the oft-repeated (especially by teachers) requirement for ‘training’ in new technology to be code for I don’t want to…

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Blogging and Browsers

Matthew Allen made an interesting point about browsers. Looting Matters has been collecting this information and IE is still in the lead followed by Firefox with Safari and Chrome quite a way behind. I have noticed that more people are using phones to access information and iPads (from several locations)…

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Which browser are you using … right now … ?

News reaches us in the ivory library tower that Firefox (in Europe at least) has finally overtaken Internet Explorer. Statcounter shows that in December 2010, in Europe, Fifefox pushed Microsoft’s offering into second place. However, more and more people are getting interested in Google’s Chrome, especially now that the Chrome…

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Prezi on iPad

I am grateful to Pete Phillips at St John’s College, Durham for drawing my attention to the Prezi app for the iPad.

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Teaching Online Courses – A Video Primer

This set of 27 ten minute videos by Prof. Curt Bonk (I have his book on Empowering Online Learning sitting on my desk if anyone is interested …) is intended to get your mind moving in the right direction if you are going to be delivering online. http://travelinedman.blogspot.com/2010/11/announcing-v-portal-video-primers-in.html Every video…

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Super Book of Web Tools for Educators

Whilst trawling through a backlog of Stephen Downes’ outpourings I saw this. You can find it here: http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2010/12/super-book-of-web-tools-for-educators.html I know it is aimed at K-12, which isn’t actually us here, but pretend you hadn’t noticed that bit and have a look anyway as there are some nice resources here (including…

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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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