Cognitive Daily ยป Can video games stimulate academic learning? This reports on an experiment with children in Chile, using Handheld video games (Grades 1/2) for 30 minutes before lessons. Working with children in “distressed” schools in Chile (I’m interpreting that to mean poor areas, so unlikely to have much experience of video games at home),…
Blogging IT and EDucation
A New Name
I’ve decided that “Emma’s work blog” is a bit naff … just not entirely sure what to replace it with. I currently follow a number of other Educational / related blogs, such as Weblogg-ed, EdTechPost, eLearnopedia and Mamamusings – all of which have, in my opinion, somewhat more catchy names… I’m currently thinking of “Blogging…
PH.Dotcom
village voice > arts > Education Supplement Spring 2005 by Geeta Dayal This is actually about blogging in academia (and links to other articles on the site, such as A brief guide to Blogodemia. A range of subject type blogs are considered, it seems that lawyers are among the more active bloggers. There are also…
Polytechs migrate to moodle
STUFF : TECHNOLOGY – STORY : New Zealand’s leading news and information website Project manager Richard Wyles says the polytechs started investigating open source as a way of cutting costs. He estimates that using Moodle instead of proprietary software will save the Open Polytechnic about $50,000 every year in licence fees alone. This article is…
Student thoughts on blogging.
Weblogg-ed – The Read/Write Web in the Classroom : Will’s isn’t the only blog that I read – honest! However, this is worth reading – a set of observations from students who have been blogging. As well as the comments that Will has selected, he’s also linked to the original student blogs, and their teacher’s….
The Case against text books.
Weblogg-ed – The Read/Write Web in the Classroom : While some of Will Richard’s points are valid, e.g. # You can’t link it to other relevant ideas or concepts in any organized way. # You can’t access it if it’s not in your posession. # You can’t copy out important information and paste it with…
BBC – What's On – Programme Information for Brains for Sale
BBC – What’s On – Programme Information for Brains for Sale A program about plagiarism in UK universities. There is also a Listen again option – (which will require Real or Real Alternative to listen to) – and should be there for the week….
Is Blogging Good for the brain?
Weblogg-ed – The Read/Write Web in the Classroom : Will Richards comments on a posting by Alec Curos, who is, in turn reviewing a paper “The Brain of a Blogger” One comment that Richards makes: Especially if most of what we’re doing is blogging in the strictist sense, not journaling, not just linking, but really…
More on Warwick
I’ve just been having a bit of a dig round the FAQs at Warwick Blogs, and a couple of things that they’ve implemented which are very much academic related, are the option to have “Follow-ups“, and “Prompts“. The followups allow you to start with an existing post, and generate a new one, with a link…
Use of Blogging in Undergraduate Courses: My Experience
Couros Blog – Frequent Rants from an Ed. Tech’er: Use of Blogging in Undergraduate Courses: My Experience A useful article – Alec started to get students on a course (which sounds rather like my EdCom unit from a quick glance), to use Blogs as a way of working. He’s listed some of the problems –…