Archive for October, 2007
Watch out UH…
…here come the School of Ed bloggers.
Last year the School of Education encouraged 140 students to set up reflective blogs and to link each blog together to create a supportive learning community. It was very successful. Reading all the comments left by students on each others blog brought a real positive vibe to the whole [...]
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Learning from YouTube
Andy Carvin at Learning Now has published a piece on using youTube to deliver a course. When, mentioned in an educational context, YouTube is often referred to as a source for obtaining information.
However Professor Alexandra Juhasz of Pitzer College is using YouTube to teach a course entitled ‘Learning from YouTube’. Essentially it is about YouTube [...]
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Move over Second Life?
Another virtual world platform Croquet is starting to gain a lot of attention. The video below showcases a lot of features.
On the whole it has a similar look and feel to that of Second Life which indicates to me at least a consensus of design and possibly cross platform linking?
Anyway the video highlights a number [...]
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Death by PowerPoint
Nice little slide show on PowerPoint design. Although being pitched at the corporate environment the tips also extend towards our context. Slide 40 in is well worth remembering especially if you have a habit of placing too much text ion the slide. Also I like the stats and the way the author has referenced them [...]
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Google Maps and Earth
I’m still slogging away at creating a teaching guide for blogs. At the moment I’m collating all the information and references together. Hopefully by next week I will be starting to work on the final guide. Anyway something that is currently piquing my interest is the use of Google Earth and Google Maps for education [...]
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Second Life article links
Well I’ve been spring cleaning all the bookmarked articles I have to read and I have a whole bunch on Second Life. At this rate since I’m concentrating on other areas (Google Earth, Google Maps and Flickr at the moment) I’ll wont get round to reading these articles for quite a while.
So I’ve decided to [...]
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Blogs - a teaching guide
Still a work in progress but here’s a small guide on blogs and their possible use in teaching. There’s still more to be added including teaching and learning benefits and challenges and examples . What the guide covers is blog types (individual reflective, group collaborative); suggestions and ideas for use and examples. Enjoy
How can I [...]
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School blogging resources
Blogs, particularly class blogs (as learning communities) are widely used within the school sector, especially primary 6 and & (and sometimes primary 4 and 5). In preparation for a recent session on community based blogging in the School of Education I have gathered together a number of school examples and listed them below.
It’s worth noting [...]
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How to vlog
Myles Dyer UH (aka Blade376) student provides some advice on how to video blog. For more from Myles click here .
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How to keep up with blogs, wikis and websites
As we’re all aware blogs, websites, wikis and the like offer a great deal of potentially useful information. But they rely on you constantly having to go to each site and check for new content. This is time consuming.
The way round this is to make the information come to you. You do this by using [...]
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