Warwick Blogs

Warwick Blogs Warwick University has started to allow all students to create a blog – so when they get a computer account, as well as an email account, they also all get space for a blog. As you can see in the heading they suggest that the blog can be used to ” Write.Reflect.Review.Share.Record.Question.Blog” –…

EducationGuardian.co.uk | E-learning | Indian schools go online

EducationGuardian.co.uk | E-learning | Indian schools go online While it might seem that learning materials developed in Scotland might not have too much relevance to students in India, remembering the success of the “Hole in the Wall” experiment a few years ago, it may well work. I do hope though that the electricity supply will…

Student Diaries

Student Diaries The BBC are starting a year long (well, 9 months in reality) look at the diaries of disabled students starting university. They are each giving a diary entry weekly, about life as a disabled student.They have a range of disabilities – and equally a range of needs. Given that SENDA now requires educational…

VOG

VOG A variation of blogging, the Vog (vlog, video blog) has started to take off, as users have access to greater bandwidth. This is the research vog for Adrian Miles, a lecturer/ researcher into Media Studies in RMIT, Melbourne. As well as the more academic focus of this vog, he has links to his own…

Blogs – Inside the ivory tower

Guardian Unlimited | Online | Inside the ivory tower The Guardian has had a few articles recently about Blogs in Academia. This article focusses on a D Phil student studying the First World war. One of the things that she’s said is useful, is the ability to search her information – in a way that’s…

Sign Language Awareness Week

It’s Sign Language Awareness Week this week, and the BBC have got a page about it. As usual with the BBC, they have quite a few pages, not always linked to in the most logical way, so another page provides a set of useful links, including one to DeafSign, which has a rather nice “translator”…

Paste Special Unformatted Text At Your Fingertips

Paste Special Unformatted Text At Your Fingertips Having been doing a lot of cutting & pasting between documents recently, I was finding it a bit of a pain to use the Edit/Paste Special/Unformatted text to ensure that the formatting wasn’t copied. It seems that MS don’t think that you need one – and so it’s…

LearnScope

LearnScope A useful looking site – with forums and many links for eLearning. There seem to be a lot of good examples of online resources in general in Australia – and of course, they have expertise in distance education (School of the air) for all ages….

Swimming MasterClasses

The BBC now have some Swimming Master Classes online. I’d be interested to know how easy it is to improve your swimming style in front of the PC … and then to see an improvement in your actual style. I suppose if you had one of these then you could study it and swim as…