Archive for July, 2007
Podcasts transforming campus life
Students can view lectures anytime, anywhere
By Brian Lee
Brief article on podcasting. Worth a look if you’re new to podcasting or just getting started. Always of interest are the quotes from both staff and students.
“”The students really enjoyed it,” he said. “It kind of raised the level of the classroom discussion having it recorded.””
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Blogging - The Staff Experience
Staff from the School of Education (University of Hertfordshire) on blogging.
Please feel free to add any comments or observations.
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Students - why do you blog?
Staff from the School of Education (University of Hertfordshire) have created two videos based ona learning community case study. Students were asked to set up a blog, post entries on their learning journey, comment on the entries made by their peers and link their blogs together to create a learning community. The result was a [...]
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School Education at the HEA conference 2007
Sally Graham and Joy Jarvis and myself (I’m holding the camera) attending the annual HEA Conference. We’re here to talk about fostering student learning communities mainly through the power of blogging.
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Blogging at school (and a bit of podcasting for good measure…)
Blog, podcasts catch on in classroom
By Erin Feese.
Short new report on school level podcasting in association with blogging. In terms of the podcasting benefits: “”…it’s a great way to incorporate lessons and relate it personally in our lives - in a context we are familiar with,” she said. “It goes beyond perusing a textbook or [...]
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Wiki Nation
By Craig Ullman
Good article for those of you who are new to the wiki and the ways of its (possible) use and application:
In terms of how they work: “Someone — anyone — writes the first draft of an article that you’d normally find in an encyclopedia. Another anyone edits it, another anyone edits that, and [...]
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‘Augmented reality’ helps kids learn
By Laura Devaney
A pretty exciting prospect for mobile learning.
In terms of place-dependent : “”Augmented reality” is an environment in which virtual images have been layered on top of those in the real world. In other words, augmented reality is the ability to use a computer program to superimpose a layer of virtual characters or other [...]
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Building buildings in Second Life
A couple of weeks ago I was musing on the worth of creating buildings in Second Life. There’s too many empty buildings and not enough interaction with the user . Rob Wright emailed me the example below. Watch the first vid before viewing the second and so if you can figure out what’s going on….
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Move over Second Life here comes Entropia
A virtual world is to be set up in China by a partnership involving Sweden-based Entropia Universe. I’m not sure whether users will be able to create objects as in Second Life but it will be a cash-based virtual economy which suggests this is planned. Of note is that it will be designed to handle [...]
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