Archive for July, 2007
Watch the World(s)
Posted with permission by Robert Wright.
A Second Life Machinima by Robbie Dringo.
“Ever looked at your favorite painting and wished you could wander inside, to look at it from different perspectives? Spend a single day in one of mine, from early sunrise on a new day, to dusk when lights come on in cosy homes; through […]
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Does Mobile Technology equate with Mobile Learning?
Form the blog of Leonard Low. A brief discussion on the nature of mobile learning. Here mobile learning is defined in terms of the mobility of the user and their learning experience rather than the technology.
“vMobile learning is, after all, about the mobility of learning, and not merely the mobility of technology, which is a […]
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Full details of universities ‘at risk’
Way off topic but of general interest. From the Guardian website. There had been a couple of Guardian articles with regards to a list naming 43 universities at risk of financial failure between 1998 and 2003. The list based on information obtained from the Higher Education Funding Council for England under the Freedom of Information […]
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A July 2007 Snapshot of UK Higher and Further Education Developments in Second Life
Okay, so while on the subject of Second Life here’s a snapshot summary of Second Life activity of the UK HE and FE sectors. UH gets a mention courtesy of Andrew Marunchak, but evidently they missed you out Rob? This is via Stephen Downes’s blog post to which the author of the report has added […]
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Blackboard spoof Second Life
Blackboard have made a spoof on Second Life meetings - clumsy avatars, people sitting on tables etc. They seem to miss the point. I attended a library meeting in the UH Second Life last month and was very impressed. Although there was a group in attendance you could wander off and mingle throughout.
Here’s the video. […]
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Coming of Age
My Lifestyle Consultant has been keeping me pretty busy at the moment so apologies for the lack of posts. A quick link the ‘Coming of Age’ report. This did the rounds a year and half ago and already some of the learning technology it talks about has taken off.
Edited by Terry Freedman the report features […]
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Authentic Learning for the 21st Century: An Overview
By Marilyn M. Lombardi
Great article on the possible future of eduction in the 21st Century. This fall sin line with what Sir Ken Robinson and Paul Ramsden have been speaking of lately in terms if equipping students with the skills relating to creativity through a curriculum in which the higher order Bloom’s taxonomy of learning […]
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Using mashups in education
As ever the wonderful Educause site have produced a succinct guide, this time focusing on mapping mashups.
Basically a website that combines information from more than one source to create a unique website, i.e. a unique experience. One of the more common example of a mashup is a mapped mashup which involves geo location data (maps).
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iPods in the Classroom
By Susie Meserve.
For information really. An interview with Robert Craven, education technology coordinator for the Orange County Department of Education in California. The focus is on student produced podcast at school level.
“In the upper grades, students are beginning to produce weekly podcast reviews of the content they studied during the week, which are then being […]
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Pepperdine podcasts lectures, speeches
By Ryan Hagen.
Again brief but some good points.The lecturer essentially precasts the lecture content in which course material is released in audio format prior to class room contact time. The idea is that the students are able to prepare beforehand and arrive at class with a basic understanding of the subject to be covered. They […]
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