Using Google Earth

Lilia at Rough Castle © David Gill Here are some ideas for using Google Earth (GE) for teaching. 1. Download GE software to the computer 2. Open GE 3. Place a marker Click on yellow marker. Move the marker to the precise point. (This can be moved later if you…

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Panoramas

I have been trying out panomonkey.com to create 360 degree panoramas. This is one of the tools emerging from my MA module ‘Digital Antiquity’.

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Smart phones in Wales

There is an interesting statement about the use of Smart Phones in Wales [Welsh Assembly Government disclosure]. Wales had the highest proportion of people with a 3G mobile phone in the UK (28%), above the UK average of 26% Should we be looking at delivering more e-learning material to smart…

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iPad for primates

The Sun – not my normal reading – has carried a story about the use of iPads by gorillas by Port Lympne wild animal park (here). The project is reported to have been supported by academics from the University of Kent. The trial has been with the original iPad. I…

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You've got an "ology"?

I watched the recording of Zaid Ali Alsagoff’s live session Sharing to Connect, Interact and Learn from Week 9 of CCK11 and during it was introduced to Schoology.com. Schoology is a social network-stroke-learning management system for education that is strongly influenced by Facebook and allows any individual or institution to…

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iPad 2

The BBC’s Rory Cellan-Jones has been trying out the iPad 2 launched today. He demonstrates the new video capability.

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Breakin' Up Is Hard To Do ?

Teaching and research can sometimes be slightly uncomfortable bedfellows, especially at institutions who pride themselves on their research. Learning and teaching can be viewed rather as the poor relation – albeit one that lives in the same house, has its name on the deeds and pays most of the mortgage.…

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