I’m now in Nottingham at ALT-C – which is a much larger conference than I’ve got used to! There are people everywhere – and a choice of 9 sessions to attend each time. The first Keynote was Michele Selinger (link to Elluminate recording), who spoke about a range of different “chasms” – and how we…
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Logo Wiki
logothings: A wiki about the History of Logo. It’s got some 1980s video of children using turtles, as well as links to other aspects of the history of logo. Via: Stephen Downes…
Making Assessment Personally Relevant
Konrad Golowski has a long post about assessing students – and in particular getting them to assess themselves. He makes the point: Of course, the challenge with student self-evaluation is that many, when given an opportunity to give themselves a grade, are often too harsh on themselves. Others, on the other hand, sometimes choose not…
The Big Question – Powerpoint
The Learning Circuits Blog has its monthly “Big Question” about Powerpoint this month. I’ve not yet had a chance to read all the ideas, but those that I have seem to agree with what I think. From my perspective, we have a number of conflicting points. Presentations have the potential to be very boring. Powerpoint…
Barriers to blogging.
Scott Mcleod writes about a school Principal who isn’t able to access a blogging project because the network administrator has stopped it; meanwhile John Connell posts about other problems with administrators banning some services. He’s got a great cartoon! He’s also got information on the JISC project that allows Wireless users to authenticate with their…
VideoLectures and TeacherTube
VideoLectures and TeacherTube – both have pretty descriptive titles! TeacherTube is very much modelled on YouTube – it looks very much like it, it’s got the same ability to create playlists & have favourites etc (a feature that I miss in Google Video) From the site, though there isn’t any indication that they are linked….
BBC Jam – Jammed
Watchdog tells BBC to drop learning website. The Times has a report that the BBC have decided to suspend the BBC Jam site. It was only launched a year ago, and, if the queues round the BBC Jam stall at BETT were anything to go by, it’s popular. The home page now has information about…
Collating References etc!
I’m just starting to work on a shared project with other members of staff, and am therefore looking quite carefully at the way in which we (and I in future) can store references. A bit of history! When I first started working at the University, I used ProCite. I didn’t have any choice, but I…
The Gapminder World 2006
Fascinating! From the Google labs. There are a number of variables that can be graphed against each other (e.g. Child mortality, population, Internet Users) – scales can be linear or logarithmic. The size of dot for each country can also be related to one of the statistical measures & finally the colour can be set…
Effects of Information Distributions Strategies on Student Performance in a CMS
Scott Leslie comments on a report by Margaret Lohman, looking at student performance when material was delivered to the students via a VLE (available pre-class), or handed out in class. Though the numbers involved are small, and they are all graduate students, the results are interesting. First, the studys findings provide little evidence to warrant…