Some might say … It is an all too frequent story nowadays in the Daily Mail or one of the other more excitable, right of centre, daily rags. Some hapless individual has been taken in by a tracksuited ne’er-do-well in a trailer park in Idaho, posing as Miss California on…
After quite a delay here is a link to the photos I took at the first Swansea Acadmy of learning and Teaching (SALT) event. All pictures released under creative commons.
A press release about the HEFCW-funded e-Learning projects has been issued. Professor Alan Speight, Pro-Vice-Chancellor with responsibility for the student experience and academic quality enhancement at Swansea University, said: “Our challenge now is to expand our e-Learning provision and to develop transferable technologies that can be applied across the full…
The dangers of new technology laid bare. New technology – the threat to our information View more presentations from normanlamont.
I’m sure I’ll not be the only one, but let me add my congratulations to Sir Tim and his wonderful, annoying, ubiquitous invention. Happy 20th Birthday, World Wide Web via Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day by Jane Hart on 3/13/09 Scientific American has a great feature on…
So I subscribed to posterous.com (just by sending an email to post@posterous.com) and now I can post to the Learning Lab Community blog, Fresh and Crispy, Twitter and Flickr all at the same time … by email! And as I’m doing this at 12.42 am, I’ve obviously got a bad…
I have created a new slidecast which is on writing a research dissertation. It’s aimed at level 3 students in Engineering, but there may be parts that you can use and adapt for your own courses. The presentation is released under a creative commons license. How To Write Your Research…
“Electronic information may be easier for people to retain, yet it is also more ephemeral, and forgettable, than the printed word, and its burgeoning popularity may herald a brave new world in which no one holds on to anything, not even a thought.” Richard Fallis, “Thanks for the Memories” CILIP…
Wordle lets you create interesting tag clouds from text or delcious feeds. There are lots of options to change the font, colours, text direction etc. Does thinking that this would look good framed make me a bit sad? Have a go yourself at http://wordle.net
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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