Second life meets Moodle. Intriguing. Via Stephen Downes…
Sloodle
- Author By Emma
- Publication date October 28, 2006
- Categories: Communication and Communities, eLearning, PLE, VLE
Category: eLearning
Google For Educators
Google For Educators This is Google’s latest idea, they’ve also got a Newsletter for teachers etc., Most of the tools are those that I’m already using, but clearly with this and Google Literacy they’re trying to get into the education market. I’ve also recently been looking at Windows Academic Live – I think I prefer…
Science GCSE with online exams
Science GCSE with online exams Last week the QCA reported that GCSE coursework was going to be curtailed to stop students using the Internet inappropriately, though Science isn’t mentioned explicitly. There could, however, be good reasons for having all the students in this new course doing their course work in “controlled conditions” – as that…
How to search Google Educational Videos
Cool Cat Teacher Blog: How to search Google Educational Video. It will be interesting to see what will happen now that Google have bought YouTube – as Educational isn’t currently one of their categories….
Research on Social Network Sites
danah boyd has posted a great list of research into Social Network sites. She claims it’s a “start”, but it’s a pretty good start, and more than enough to keep me going for a while!…
Women don't blog … oh yes we do!
On my way to Blog.ac.uk at the start of the month, I was reading the Guardian & came across Men used to go fishing when they wanted to get away from ‘the wife’ and swap smutty jokes. Now they take up blogging. Talking to some of the other delegates, they expressed surprise, one commenting that…
A Review of Research on Teaching Courses Online
Christopher D. Sessums reviews a review … but it’s worth reading….
blogwithoutalibrary.net
LIS course in Social Software This course looks like it’s going to be very interesting, I hope that at least some of the materials end up online – I’ve been looking at various courses as we start to plan out the new online MSc. The Opencourseware initiative has been good for that; I rather like…
Post-match markers crash websites
Edexcel’s marking site crashed on Sunday after the England match; I’ve read before about the electrical surges generated by opening fridges & boiling kettles, but not seen the impact of deciding to do your marking!…
PLEs & Google.
Since attending the PLE workshop, I’ve been mulling over the possibility of using a Google personal page as a form of PLE. I’ve already downloaded Google Notebook, which resides on the lower bar of the browser. I’ve got several different feeds onto my personal page (Gmail, Google Reader, BBC news etc.,), however, there are some…