With this as a title in one of Steven Downes’ posts, I was interested! He was commenting (vociferously), on an article by Terry Freedman, about a keynote speech given at the Naace Conference – by John Clare. John Clare is an Education journalist for the Daily Telegraph– and is fairly anti technology. So, it was…
Category: Educational
Campus wide e-Portfolios
Dave Tosh looks at some of the implications of setting up campus wide ePortfolio systems; specifically by the University of Nebraska. He points out that while they have said that departments and schools can customise their views, the same isn’t possible for students. A few weeks ago – in fact, just about the same time…
Group work benefits pupils, study finds
A study by the Institute of Education into group work & pupils aged 5-14 has found that they can make rapid progress. While many teachers found it hard not to intervene when tempers initially flared, after time the children were working well & making progress….
iPod Maths
MathTutor has downloadable tutorials designed to be used on an iPod. The one that I’ve had a look at would require a video iPod, though I guess that you could use it with just audio. Though it said to download to iTunes & then to the iPod, I was able to download & play with…
Flickr – as learning Tool
Beth H has got an image in Flickr that’s being used as a learning tool. Different areas of the image have different notes attached to them – some by different posters. (Not sure if they are her class, or random visitors)…
OU to bring all course content online
The Guardian reports that all OU material will be online from October. It looks as if the material is going to be open access, as MIT courseware is. I’ve just had a look at the courses that are available at other institutions. Utah State has several in their Information Technology department. I rather like the…
FreeOnlineEducational Sites
FreeOnlineEducational Sites A good collection of sites. Mostly HE and mostly US based, though LSE & Radio 4 are in there, as well as more general resources such as Merlot. Via: Steven Downes…
Alan Levine has written a thoughtful post about how we are using blogs in Education – the fact that they are often shortlived, tied to the teacher, not always allowing the student to really develop their personality. Links also to the Northern Voice Conference, which sounds like it was good….
blogs and wikis – why, how and who?
Abject Learning: Please respond: blogs and wikis – why, how and who? It’s a little late to respond now, as Brian’s talk was in January. However, the links that others have posted – how they are using Blogs & Wikis in Education are worth following & cover a variety of uses….
EdTechUK: Edublog Meetup3
EdTechUK: Edublog Meetup3 I’m hoping to get to this on Saturday – looks like it will be interesting – getting to meet people that I’ve somewhat got to know through their writing, but having no idea what they’re *really* like ……