Apart from providing context for the HEFCw-funded enhancement project “A Peer Support Platform”, the engineering dissertation module EG-353 Research Project provides many opportunities for trying out and sharing new and novel presentation media. One particular presentation, Research Tools and Techniques, is a show case of web 2.0 tools for managing…
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…
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…
Appropriately enough added to my own posterous.com blog posting about Sidewiki. Unexpected, but perhaps not suprising, was the discovery that as a Google “customer”, you can post your comments to your Blogger blog(s)! Twitter, Facebook and other social sharing possibilities surely must be close behind. in reference to: “In the…
I’m going though some of the Benchmarking data at the moment and was putting some though Wordle. Chris Jobling suggested I put some of the information here. So, here it is. There are three Wordles (is that a word?) based on questions that were asked to students. There were 960…
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…
I blogged a bit about ALT-C2009 on my personal blog while I was at the conference. Now I’ve been back a few days I thought it might be useful to put a few of my thoughts here on the Learning Lab. One of my colleagues, having viewed the keynotes and…
Today I was asked to email some photos that I took of a band that played at the recent Swansea World Party Weekend and posted on Flickr. However, as each image is 2.6 Mbyte in size, I was reluctant to do this, and started to explain, in writing, how you…
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
Twitter in Higher Education: More than 30 Percent of Faculty Say They Tweet What percentage of Swansea staff Tweet?
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