Category: community blog
Passion in L&T
Kathy Sierra is an inspirational educator who created the excellent “Head First” series of self-learning books for O’Reilly. She famously ended her public blog “Creating Passionate Users” and stopped appearing in public after receiving death threats back in April 2007 … an incident that made national news at the time.…
Social Media Aggregators
On the lookout for a social media aggregation tool, I came across 7 Social Media Aggregation Tools To Simplify Your Streams, published earlier this year on the socialmedia today blog. Amongst the usual suspects, Hootsuite (which I have yet to try), Netvibes (popular with some learning lab folks), and Tweetdeck, there…
7 Things You Should Know About Assessing Online Team-Based Learning
7 Things You Should Know About Assessing Online Team-Based Learning http://bit.ly/clYuCb In team-based learning, students work in groups on outcome-based or problem-based assignments. Assessing the work produced by teams, however, presents a significant challenge, and this difficulty is especially prominent in online environments. Developing and implementing a transparent assessment process…
iPad trial at Leicester City Council sparks union anger
“A union has criticised Leicester City Council for considering buying iPads for its councillors despite planning up to 1,000 job cuts.” http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-10859748 At the risk of being accused of continuing my one man campaign against the iPad, this story is typical of managers who don’t really know what they are…
Digital Heritage and Mobile Technology
The Italian Ministry of Culture (MiBAC) has launched a stylish app for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch (see here). Apart from an online guide there is a facility to buy a virtual ticket for the top tourist attraction in Rome.
OpenScholar – A Tool for Building Staff and project websites
Blackboard is a great tool for building course web sites. The Content Management System (CMS) used by the web office and various departments on campus is a reasonable content management system that Colleges, Schools and Departments can use (with training) to build decent Departmental teaching and Research Group showcase sites.…
Kindle
There have been a couple of recent articles in The Guardian (Can Amazon turn e-Book Mainsteam?) and the BBC (Amazon Offers New Kindle for the UK Market) about Amazon’s imminent release of a UK Kindle and Amazon’s claim that some form of e-book tipping point is imminent. Does anyone know…
iPad for partially sighted
BBC Radio 4 had a short discussion of the iPad and its features for blind and partially sighted users (In Touch, August 3, 2010). The programme will be available on the BBC iPlayer.
A message from marketing consultants……?
Passion in L&T
Kathy Sierra is an inspirational educator who created the excellent “Head First” series of self-learning books for O’Reilly. She famously ended her public blog “Creating Passionate Users” and stopped appearing in public after receiving death threats back in April 2007 … an incident that made national news at the time.…
Social Media Aggregators
On the lookout for a social media aggregation tool, I came across 7 Social Media Aggregation Tools To Simplify Your Streams, published earlier this year on the socialmedia today blog. Amongst the usual suspects, Hootsuite (which I have yet to try), Netvibes (popular with some learning lab folks), and Tweetdeck, there…
7 Things You Should Know About Assessing Online Team-Based Learning
7 Things You Should Know About Assessing Online Team-Based Learning http://bit.ly/clYuCb In team-based learning, students work in groups on outcome-based or problem-based assignments. Assessing the work produced by teams, however, presents a significant challenge, and this difficulty is especially prominent in online environments. Developing and implementing a transparent assessment process…
iPad trial at Leicester City Council sparks union anger
“A union has criticised Leicester City Council for considering buying iPads for its councillors despite planning up to 1,000 job cuts.” http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-10859748 At the risk of being accused of continuing my one man campaign against the iPad, this story is typical of managers who don’t really know what they are…
Digital Heritage and Mobile Technology
The Italian Ministry of Culture (MiBAC) has launched a stylish app for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch (see here). Apart from an online guide there is a facility to buy a virtual ticket for the top tourist attraction in Rome.
OpenScholar – A Tool for Building Staff and project websites
Blackboard is a great tool for building course web sites. The Content Management System (CMS) used by the web office and various departments on campus is a reasonable content management system that Colleges, Schools and Departments can use (with training) to build decent Departmental teaching and Research Group showcase sites.…
Kindle
There have been a couple of recent articles in The Guardian (Can Amazon turn e-Book Mainsteam?) and the BBC (Amazon Offers New Kindle for the UK Market) about Amazon’s imminent release of a UK Kindle and Amazon’s claim that some form of e-book tipping point is imminent. Does anyone know…
iPad for partially sighted
BBC Radio 4 had a short discussion of the iPad and its features for blind and partially sighted users (In Touch, August 3, 2010). The programme will be available on the BBC iPlayer.
