U.S. homework outsourced as ‘e-tutoring’ grows A report about a company, TutorVista, based in Bangalore India, that offers on-line tutoring to students. They started in the US about a year ago and have just expanded to the UK. I’m not sure what I think about it – the headline that CNET have used “homework outsourced”…
Category: Educational
Collaborative Notetaking
DyKnow seem to supply some collaborative notetaking software. It looks interesting, but, though I can find several places telling me that the *client* is free, I can’t seem to find the cost of the server – which it seems to need! There are other tools that I have found, that are free; for example: Google…
A Classroom Blogging
The tools is the first post (apart from the Introduction) of a planned series of posts about getting a group of students to blog over this semester. Jenn is going to get her students to use Flock, either from a Flash Drive, or, if they have them, laptops. Dave (who writes Academhack) lists the advantages…
Progressive Discourse
Konrad Glogowski has written a pair of posts about how his relationship changed with his class through blogging. His class is a Grade 8 class, so about 14 years old. He notes, in his first post, that his class moved to a position where rather than him being seen peddling content, he was part of…
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!…
edufilter
David Tosh, who developed Elgg, has set up Edufilter. a space dedicated to reviewing educational projects, software and research It was only launched in August, but already has several useful looking posts … I’ve just been off investigating EdTechTalk – and from there found some more interesting posts….
How can I tell if I'll be any good as a programmer?
The Guardian Technology supplement reports on some work done at Middlesex, attempting to predict how well students are likely to perform in programming. Like other Universities, they’d noted that students typically either did very well, or failed. They have therefore designed a test, to see if they can predict how well students are likely to…
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…