Category: Educational

Historical Maps in Google.

Google Earth has just been updated to version 4 … one really fun thing is the inclusion of historical maps – which they don’t mention on the home page. Luckily Ben Werdmuller has blogged about it – and they’re fun. OK, so perhaps not quite as much detail as the current maps – as 18th…

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…

» Personalisation in electronic environments Josie Fraser gives a good overview of where we are, and, more importantly where we could be going with personalisation in electroncic (learning environments). She looks at a range of differing levels of personalisation and control that the learner can have over the environment, and sees a difference between a…

Firefox 2.0 and Zotero.

I’ve been having a look recently at Firefox 2.0 (despite deciding how much I like Flock) in part due to the fact that Zotero only works with Firefox 2. I’ve used Procite for keeping references in for a while now, but it seems that the University is keen to encourage staff to move to Endnote….

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…

Zotero

The Next-Generation Research Tool Someone emailed me about this – I suspect in relation to the comments I made about WorldCat recently. It looks to be very useful – apart from the fact it only seems to work with Firefox 2.0 – which is in beta. I’ve installed it on my laptop – and intend…

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…