education
Reading, Writing and Arithmetic on the Web or the Wii
I’ve just had a quick go on a few games on the Arcademic Skill Builders site, having read a blog posting by the Shifted Librarian “The Three Wii R’s“. Arcademic Skill Builders are providing free educational ‘arcade’ games for (younger) children that can be accessed over the web, or using a Wii browser and ‘mote. There are single-player and [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Universities I have visited
I was just reflecting on my “study/working tour” of UK universities ;-D, which began in 1995, starting with the University of Sunderland, when I thought that perhaps it would be a nice idea for someone to create a Facebook app along the lines of ‘Universities that I have visited’, similar to the ‘Places I have [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )More on Journal Articles: Ratings and Comments
This post is further to my earlier post on Journal articles: ratings and comments (7th November, 2007).
Yesterday I attended the JIBS workshop: “Is Library 2.0 a trivial pursuit”. The presentations were all excellent. They included one by Dave Pattern, Library Systems Manager at the University of Huddersfield: “Making the catalogue a good place to be: [...]
Journal Articles: Ratings and Comments
How long will it be before it is possible to rate and comment on articles and papers and see that people who read this also read… these papers and these books and want to read these ones?
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )End of PROWE event
I am organising an end of project event on Wednesday 12th December for the JISC-funded OU-led PROWE project (www.prowe.ac.uk) which looked at the use of informal repositories within wiki and blogs to meet the Continuing Professional Development needs of part-time tutors.
We will be disseminating PROWE’s findings at the [...]
Podcasts and indexing
Brian Kelly’s post “The Future As Today, But More So” started me wondering whether today’s university students, who audio/video record their lectures (or whose lecturers provide them with recordings) bother to take full handwritten notes. Perhaps it is down to the individual student and the quality of the recording/accessibility/reliability of the technology. If [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )PROWE wins best poster at ALT-C 2007
The JISC-funded OU-Led PROWE Project won the ‘best poster’ competition at ALT-C 2007 in September. The poster is available here: http://www.prowe.ac.uk/documents/PROWEALT-CPoster2007600dpi.pdf
The poster focussed on the PROWE Ecology and How-to/Questions to Ask guides developed by Anne Hewling.
The winning poster is mentioned the October 2007 issue (10) of the ALT Online Newsletter.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Google for Universities
Google is providing universities with “Google Apps for Education” - gmail, google calendars and google document sharing/collaboration tools. Trinity College Dublin appears to be the first UK University to sign up. An advantage to students (and staff!) is that they can still have access to their email account when they leave. See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6741797.stm
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