100+ Web 2.0 Ideas for Educators: A Guide to RSS and More from Quentin D’Souza. I’ve already used (and encouraged others to use) his RSS for Educators – so many thanks for another useful guide, Quentin! This has a lot of useful suggestions, and covers aspects I’ve thought about, such as the difficulties with tagging,…
Category: Blogs, RSS etc
Web 2.0 and virtual collaborative Clinical Practice
Researchers from Plymouth have a range of ideas for how Web 2.0 tools (predominantly blogs/ wikis/podcasts) might be used for Clinical practice education. They have links to a range of sites (including a FluWiki) This might well tie in with the work we’re looking at in the ExPRET Centre….
Audio blogs
I’ve looked in the past at setting up audio for this blog, to enhance accessibility. The options, when I first investigated were either to record everything myself – which would have been very slow, or to use a plugin that read it. The first that I tried was Feed2podcast, which I set up, though ultimately…
eFoundations: The importance of being open
eFoundations: The importance of being open I have just found this blog – Andy Powell is discussing some of the JISC tools (in particular JORUM and JISC IE), and comparing them to freely available tools (such as SlideShare, Flickr etc). He makes some good points, both about the “Reinventing the Wheel” syndrome, as well as…
Stringle
Towards a String’n’Glue Learning Environment I rather like this – it’s simple -and, if you have a look at the example page, it seems quite easy to build up your own. It’s where having HTML skills comes in useful – there isn’t a tool (yet) to let you build it up – you have to…
RSS into WebCT.
One of the things that I’ve been doing with the ExPERT centre is looking at the WebCT site -to see how it can be improved. One issue that struck me was the news page. It’s not that interactive. So, I initially wondered if it was possible to have an RSS feed from WebCT, but have…
Blog aims to record everyday life
Britain’s biggest blog is the current version of the Mass Observation Archive (1930s) which attempted to get people to observe everyday activities etc. The National Trust director said: “It would be fantastic if hundreds of thousands of people take up this opportunity for mass online participation… and make it the biggest blog ever.” Historian Dan…
(re)defining blogs
Christopher D. Sessums is attempting to (re) define “blog”. He suggests that given that blogs are used in more and more diverse ways, should they infact be given different names. The replies that he’s had generally point out that “blog” is really a technology – and then you have to look at the way it’s…
ExPERT Centre
I’ve recently started a .4 secondment to the ExPERT Centre ((Excellence in Professional development through Education, Research & Technology). It’s one of the two Centres of Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) that we have at Portsmouth. I’ll be looking at a number of things, but blogs, online communities and other related matters are likely…
Assessment 2.0
The Scottish Education blog has a list of Web 2.0 tools and how they might be used for assessment. I’d forgotten about Netvibes, it’s like a rather more powerful Google Personal…