elearningpost: Experience-Enabling Design: An approach to elearning design A slightly different focus on eLearning, this time very much emphasising the experience that we give the student….
Blogging IT and EDucation
Innovate – Instructional Blogging: Promoting Interactivity, Student-Centered Learning, and Peer Input
Innovate – Instructional Blogging: Promoting Interactivity, Student-Centered Learning, and Peer Input A useful paper – the synopsis says: Stuart Glogoff expounds on the educational applications of blogsĀsimple Web pages that can have surprisingly complex classroom applications. Situating his commentary in the context of pedagogical theory, Glogoff outlines the ways in which blogs can enable receptive…
Each to their own
EducationGuardian.co.uk have a report into Learning Styles, and how useful (or not) they are in assisting teachers. Among other things, they point out that you can’t just label children – and say that they are “an auditory learner”. Garner, who first discussed multiple intelligence (one of the learning styles covered in most books etc.,) said:…
Adware targets kids
Security Pipeline have an article that looks at how sites that are aimed at children are particuarly infested with Adware. From their findings they’ve found that children’s sites particularly have Adware, rather than spyware – which, they assume is because children don’t tend to have credit cards, so it’s not worth spying on what they…
Google Fight
Google Fight : Make a fight with googleFight An amusing little application – just enter two terms, and see which has more entries in Google. Purely for fun, but an amusing little aside!…
Real-Time Collaboration Tools And Their Differences With Enterprise Conferencing Solutions
Robin Good looks at a number of tools for real time collaboration. He looks at a number of different tasks & tools – in a presentation (linked to at end of page). He defines “GrassRoots” as low cost (inc. cost effective, open source etc.), easy to set up, cross platform, etc., He does look at…
Special reports | Parents: Mind games
Parents: Mind games Computer games are good for kids! “That fixated look the kids get is a look of focus, not of being a zombie,” says Steven Johnson, author and lecturer in interactive telecommunications at New York University. “It’s a brain working hard.” The article goes on to look at things like the increasing IQ…
A9.com > OpenSearch
A9.com > OpenSearch The idea behind Open Search is that any search tool can generate results in such a way that they can be imported to other tools – rather as RSS feeds can be sent to web pages, RSS readers etc. It’s based on the same XML as RSS….
Remote Authoring of Mobile Blogs for Learning Environments
Remote Authoring of Mobile Blogs for Learning Environments Oxford are working on a JISc project, looking at blogging on the move. The project has been going on for some time, and I’ve used it for reference in the past, though just never mentioned it here before. I certainly like the idea of being able to…
UoP Blogs
UoP Blogs WOW!! Here was me looking at trying to get a blogging system set up – and Julian emailed this morning to say that there was 1… At the moment though it doesn’t seem to be self registering for posting, and I’m not sure if it’s multiple blogs or a single multiple user blog….