I don’t know if it’s a real name, but you can picture this section of ScotFEICT as a meandering journey through the confusions and delights of elearning. If it is all overwhelming, begin at the beginning. If you are feeling adventurous, skip lightly to one of the other sections and peer into the glass cabinet. Then press the button to watch it light up.
Here’s an interesting looking book, published by PACKT. The book was written by John Mannion who is: “Head of ICT in Teaching & Learning and also teaches History” at a school in Newbury, England. I’ve received a review copy, so I’ll report back. Mean time, here’s a sample chapter to read: History-Teaching-with-Moodle-2-eBook2 You...
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Moodle HQ tell is that Moodle 2.1 will be launched – with a favourable tide and a fair wind – on 1st July. I’m holding back on doing any more with Moodle 2 until I see this: especially as it will include the ability to import and convert Moodle 1.9 courses. By the by,...
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Here’s a great video of one example of Twitter in the Classroom. It includes interviews with students on how they benefit from using Twitter, and the lecturer explains the value of Twitter to her. There’s also an article, How Twitter in the Classroom is Boosting Student Engagement, which is another take on Twitter (this too...
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This snappy video gives an overview of where we are with the Social Media Revolution (thanks to Jane Hart for tweeting this). Tweet
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Of interest to curriculum managers, teaching practitioners and support staff throughout further and higher education, a new JISC guide Transforming curriculum delivery through technology: Stories of challenge, benefit and change is now available. Take a look at: JISC Transforming Curriculum Delivery Through Technology programme Tweet
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I’ve just enjoyed a presentation by Jarrod Robinson, a Sports Co-ordinator from Australia. He talked us through his use of ICT in his classroom – and sports field. You can follow his excellent blog at www.pegeek.com and find links to all that he talked about – and more. That he was talking from Australia at some...
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The elearningeuropa.info website is well worth a hunt around, both for inspiration and for finding out what’s happening in Eurofunding land in relation to elearning. And now they’ve revamped the site. See: elearningeuropa.info launches its new user oriented platform Tweet
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I’ve talked about the Khan Academy here before, and about what an impressive resource it is. Here is a TED talk by the founder of the Khan Academy where he explains how he started it, and his philosophy. I draw your attention to this video for another reason. He makes the point that with...
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I like this piece on for three reasons. 1) The subject. Information overload and how to manage it. Rheingold talks through his approach to the sifting and sorting the information avalanche, and, ih his phrase: “the literacy of crap detection.” 2) Method of delivery. It’s a little piece of learning resource created using free...
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3D graphics are all the rage – as we have seen in the last few days with the release of the Nintendo 3DS. But as you would expect, Moodle HQ have been on the job for a while now, and hot on the release of Moode 2 is Moodle 3D. At last you can...
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