Since attending the PLE workshop, I’ve been mulling over the possibility of using a Google personal page as a form of PLE. I’ve already downloaded Google Notebook, which resides on the lower bar of the browser. I’ve got several different feeds onto my personal page (Gmail, Google Reader, BBC news etc.,), however, there are some…
Blogging IT and EDucation
E-portfolios
Stephen Downes has a review of several papers about e-portfolios – concentrating on the student use of them, rather than institutional requirements. It’s something that came up at the PLE meeting that I went to – can a portfolio / PLE be truly “personal” if it’s institutionally provide? The links to Helen Barrat’s ideas about…
DrawDoc
DrawDoc While this is also going to go in the tools section I’m just creating, I’ll also post about it here. I was reading about this in one of Scott Leslie’s posts, and so I thought I’d have a play. In another tab I had Josie’s post about Blog.ac.uk 2006 open, so pasted the first…
Explore Shakespeare with Google
Explore Shakespeare with Google This seems useful – with the increasing range of books in Google’s book search, they’ve now got most of Shakespeare’s works – so you can search them all at one. There are also links to Google Earth & a tour of the Globe etc….
Tools
Over the past few weeks, when I’ve been very busy with marking etc., I’ve not been totally ignoring this blog, I’ve just been saving several sites as useful/ interesting for whatever reason. Quite a few have been “Web 2.0” type tools, so, rather than posting about them all, I’ve decided to create a new page…
Social software and learning
Futurelab – Research – Publications I’ve got a lot of posts sitting in the “draft” section of my blog – i.e. things that looked interesting at the time, but I didn’t have time to do anything about them. This was one (luckily I’ve found the .pdf version, as I’m still not fond of reading on…
Podcast lectures for uni students
Podcast lectures for uni students I’m a little sceptical of the reasoning; though the article covers a bit more than the video. In the video, a lot is made of the getting your biochemistry alongside your blur. No mention is made in the video of the fact that students can text questions to Dr. Ashraf…
When is a blogpost Plagiarism?
Jonathan Bailey in Plagiarism Today, looks at how much plagiarism exists in blogs. He acknowledges that it’s a difficult area – many bloggers do attribute work – and link back to the original – however the level of commenting that is put in varies tremendously. In his blog, he’s really concentrating on Web plagiarism, not…
More audio
Since I made the post this morning, I’ve done some more investigating and have found PodPress – and bought a rather snazzy headset. So, here’s my latest attempt. Transcript: This is so much easier than the one I was using this morning….
Audio Blogging.
A link from Mr Belshaw’s blog to mine, lead me to his blog, and then to EduPress – his customised version of WordPress. I rather liked his podcasting, so further investigating took me to Martin Laine’s Audio Player – which I’ve now installed & hope I’ve got working. I’m trying to work out the best…