User-centred design for educational equality?
How can we ensure e-learning projects are actually worthwhile? Futurelab presentation at ALT-C by Lyndsay Grant on user-centred design. More detail here.
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Connectivism?
A Commoncraft style video on connectivism. I found this here http://wishfulthinkinginmedicaleducation.blogspot.com/ which is the blog of a Clinical Lecturer in Cardifff University who joined the Learning Lab Delicious network
Digital Student
The Education Guardian today published a supplement in association with JISC called Digital Student. Discussing technology in further and higher education, it looks like it should be required reading for all in the Learning Lab community. Headline topics include Academia Tackles the Future, Second Life for Teaching? and ‘Building a…
Thanks for the Free Software!
Yesterday was Thanksgiving in the USA and in celebration Gina Trapani at LifeHacker published a top 50(ish) list of free tools. I thought the article “Thanksgiving: Free Software We’re Most Thankful For” was worth sharing with the Learning Lab Community as I’m thankful for quite a few of these myself!
Second Life and Travel
BBC Radio 4’s Traveller’s Tree (17 November 2008) had an interesting comment about ‘Second Life’ and the future of the future. The discussion revolved around ‘virtual holidays’.
Wordle and "Obamalogical Studies"
Last week I drew attention to the use of Wordle. Today’s Times (‘Obamalogical Studies’, November 12, 2008) carries a Wordle image of words used by President-elect Obama in recent speeches, and the hopes for the Obama presidency sent in by readers of the Times. Here is the analysis of Obama’s…
Why (archaeologists) blog
Bill Caraher, an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of North Dakota who works on Late Antique Greece, has an interesting reflection,”Why blog?” on The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World. He summarises: 1. I like to write and find the discipline of writing valuable.2. A desire…
Wordle for Blogs
The Iraq War & Archaeology blog had a feature on Wordle. Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color…
Delicious in Four Minutes
For today’s lunch and learn session I created a screencast of the presentation I wanted to make and published it along with some notes on the Lunch and Learn Top 10 Tools and Tips page on the Learning Lab wiki. The video is actually around five minutes long and the…
Group work unfair?
Although collaborating in groups is a common way of working and to be able to do it well is an important skill, students often argue that group assessment is unfair. “We did all the work and Chris did nothing but still gets the same mark us. How is that fair?”…
Connectivism?
A Commoncraft style video on connectivism. I found this here http://wishfulthinkinginmedicaleducation.blogspot.com/ which is the blog of a Clinical Lecturer in Cardifff University who joined the Learning Lab Delicious network
Digital Student
The Education Guardian today published a supplement in association with JISC called Digital Student. Discussing technology in further and higher education, it looks like it should be required reading for all in the Learning Lab community. Headline topics include Academia Tackles the Future, Second Life for Teaching? and ‘Building a…
Thanks for the Free Software!
Yesterday was Thanksgiving in the USA and in celebration Gina Trapani at LifeHacker published a top 50(ish) list of free tools. I thought the article “Thanksgiving: Free Software We’re Most Thankful For” was worth sharing with the Learning Lab Community as I’m thankful for quite a few of these myself!
Second Life and Travel
BBC Radio 4’s Traveller’s Tree (17 November 2008) had an interesting comment about ‘Second Life’ and the future of the future. The discussion revolved around ‘virtual holidays’.
Wordle and "Obamalogical Studies"
Last week I drew attention to the use of Wordle. Today’s Times (‘Obamalogical Studies’, November 12, 2008) carries a Wordle image of words used by President-elect Obama in recent speeches, and the hopes for the Obama presidency sent in by readers of the Times. Here is the analysis of Obama’s…
Why (archaeologists) blog
Bill Caraher, an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of North Dakota who works on Late Antique Greece, has an interesting reflection,”Why blog?” on The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World. He summarises: 1. I like to write and find the discipline of writing valuable.2. A desire…
Wordle for Blogs
The Iraq War & Archaeology blog had a feature on Wordle. Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color…
Delicious in Four Minutes
For today’s lunch and learn session I created a screencast of the presentation I wanted to make and published it along with some notes on the Lunch and Learn Top 10 Tools and Tips page on the Learning Lab wiki. The video is actually around five minutes long and the…
Group work unfair?
Although collaborating in groups is a common way of working and to be able to do it well is an important skill, students often argue that group assessment is unfair. “We did all the work and Chris did nothing but still gets the same mark us. How is that fair?”…
