Just spotted on Lifehacker.com is this announcement of an extension from Sun Microsystems that allows you to edit a MediaWiki page from within OpenOffice. MediaWiki is one of the most powerful wiki tools available (it powers Wikipedia) but it also has the most complex syntax. Because it works like a…
A business game based on a running a hairdressing salon? Graham Atwell says there are”twelve episodes to the game. The first is on customer relations. A series of multiple choice questions. Then according to answers skills levels indicator moves up and down and turnover for business changes. No correct answers…
Today I was looking for an alternative to Blackboard’s survey manager when I stumbled upon this great suggestion from Technology Bites. All you do is go to Google Docs (docs.google.com), create a new Google Docs Spreadsheet and share the spreadsheet with your students via a web form. It’s really quick…
According to ReadWriteWeb in Why Gen[eration] Y is Going to Change the Web the current generation of young adults born between 1982-1997 is the most digitally active generation yet. They are digital natives who were born “plugged in.” The article looks at the implications for traditional media (TV, advertising, etc)…
This is a question for the community: what screen casting tools do you use and which would you recommend? The context for this is that as a teacher of computer things, I watch a lot of how-to videos that are made available as screencasts, and I’ve even add a go…
Colleagues and readers may be interested to know that I have published an article on using Blackboard’s External Links to quickly create a useful presence on Blackboard. I think that the tip will be particularly useful if the thing that’s preventing you migrating course materials to Blackboard is the effort…
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?
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