I read about Facebook Chat a while ago, and I’ve now just seen that it’s been enabled for me. I’ve not yet tested it, but I think that it may well be a very useful extra (as I’ve mentioned in the past when it didn’t exist)…
Blogging IT and EDucation
CMS Conversion Tools
Scott Leslie has started a useful wiki, recognising that many are tied to a CMS (i.e. VLE), but may, in the future want to get the stuff out … We’ve now got WebCT Vista (locally known as Victory), and it seems that it’s not the easiest to get material out of. Maybe it will get…
VLE? What do you exactly mean by a VLE?
Cristina Costa has a guest posting on Graham Atwell’s blog: VLE? What do you exactly mean by a VLE? She says: The learning environment doesnt come with the software, that much I can assure you. The learning environment is the world the moderator creates together with the learners, while engaging (with) them in a relevant…
Uses for blogs in Education
I’d not seen Scott’s original matrix (or, to be strictly honest, I think I have seen it before, but I can’t remember where/ when / I certainly never did anything with it at the time!). The first interactive one rings a bell, though I think that it is a shame they’ve removed the gradation from…
Metadata
Metadata. A clear animation explaining metadata (though I’m still confused about some of the icons on the spacecraft!). They’ve also got a link to a metadata creation site (UK use only; Athens authentication required). I’m still unsure about metadata. It requires effort to create, and it can be open to a lot of personal interpretation….
How Much Time Does Classroom 2.0 Take?
This was originally a post about Web2.0, in the context of libraries. It doesn’t take long to change it to “Classroom 2.0” or “eLearning”. From a staff point of view, if we’re going to start to get our students to use Web2.0 tools to support their learning, how much time we can allocate to supporting…
A Free Learning Tool for Every Learning Problem?
ZaidLearn presents a list of tools. It’s quite long, most are familiar to me, though there are some new ones. I’d heard of “DimDim” before, but I’ve not checked it out; Courselab, was new to me. I was sorry not to see Elgg in his list; but perhaps he’s been bitten by the recent hiccups…
Facebook Chat
Facebook Chat is being rolled out. My personal feeling is that it’s going to prove very popular – quicker than walls, and, presumably, much easier to control privacy and who can see it. From that report, it seems that chat will be one to one, which could be a limiting factor, on the other hand…
We are smarter than me.
We are smarter than me, now a book, originally started out as a wiki. I’d heard of it before in passing, though not actually checked it, until I read Becta’s “Emerging Technologies for Learning” (Vol 3) The wiki is still there; I’ve not got the book, so I can’t compare the two; however, it should…
Audio on posts.
I’ve been using the Talkr podcast for some time now, but it seems to have stopped working (? when I upgraded to WordPress 2.5). I’ve therefore just tried VozMe, which seems to work. It’s a little slower, as it creates the mp3 file on the fly. On the other hand, that means that it’s going…