You Tube has added the new You Tube for Schools http://www.youtube.com/schools. The ideas is to have all the educational content without Fenton, Cute cats and Rick. A bit like TeacherTube really. The project has content provided by over 600 educational outlets such as TED and the Smithsonian, with subjects broken…
“In order for technology to enhance learning in classrooms, teachers need to be involved in its design. In this way technology and teaching can evolve together to improve productivity and efficiency.” So says the opening sentence of the webpage for the Learning Designer (LDSE) project. The project is part of…
© Copyright P.L. Chadwick and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons License I’m looking for some forum software. Some open source forum software (as we have a budget of approximately nothing …) to be more exact. I don’t know what direction to go in so I thought I’d offer…
The clickers are becoming increasingly popular – we now have 10 sets in the library and a number of colleges have their own but what if you don’t like PowerPoint, use a Mac or Prezi? TurningPoint have a new application called Turning Point Anywhere. According to their website: “Using…
The 4th issue of the Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education (JLDHE) is in preparation and will be released early in 2012. They say they have a good range of contributions already but there is still space for a few more papers, case studies, opinion pieces or reviews.. They…
If you have an iPhone or an iPod Touch and use Turning point, there’s a nifty new app for running your Turningpoint presentations. I’ve had a play with it and seems to do pretty much as it says it does, including viewing the votes as they are coming in and…
It is always nice to know you are not alone isn’t it ! Some sterling work has been done in digital humanities here in Swansea – we even have a Masters level module on Digital Antiquity. Now, it appears that things are also happening in UCLA, in similar ways. Looking…
From the Department for Business, Information and Skills “The Government has accepted all ten recommendations made in Professor Hargreaves’ independent review on intellectual property, which estimates a potential benefit to the UK economy of up to £7.9 billion.” More information from the Department for Business, Information and Skills website
Interesting Video from Creative Commons New Zealand on Creative Commons licensing. I like the “this is what you can do” rather than the “whatever you are thinking about you can’t do it” approach.
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