Tuesday, 26 February 2008
Today's interesting links!
Pew internet research:
"Teens and Social Media: The use of social media gains a greater foothold in teen life as they embrace the conversational nature of interactive online media."
http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/ r/230/report_ display.asp
Designing communities presentation
by Christina Wodtke:
http://www.slideshare.net/cwodtke/ designing- communities10150 7
Free stock photos
http://www.sxc.hu/
Wikis in plain English
http://www.commoncraft.com/video-wikis-plain-english
(The other videos by the same people are excellent explanations of Web 2.0 concepts as well)
Talent
http://www.talent.ac.uk/
the online community for adult literacy, numeracy and ESOL teachers and anyone interested in good practice in the teaching and learning of adults and young people with language, literacy and numeracy needs.Articles by Helen Beetham on the topic of models:
- http://www.elt.ac.uk/ELT%20documents/EFFECTS/Vision.pdf
- http://www.eres.ac.uk/source/docs/pub-ou-47.pdf
Labels: internet research, links, models, online communities, photos, Web 2.0, wikis
posted by Helen Whitehead 7:50 AM
Monday, 12 November 2007
Links for week commencing 12th November
Real-world e-learning software
I asked some practitioners what e-learning tools the staff in their institutions actually found useful. Here are some of their answers:
Course Genie
This is a product from Wimba (who have a site of good products) which allows staff to generate web pages from Word documents. It runs from within Microsoft Word as an add-on, so it's possible for many of the formatting features of Word to be used. Various resources can be linked to the central web file created automatically by Word so learners can read materials, view presentations, search the internet or take quizzes as part of one learning "package".
MonkeyJam
Freeware animation software: designed to let you capture images from a webcam, camcorder, or scanner and assemble them as separate frames of an animation. It's also possible to import other images and sound files. Will export as an .avi file.
Content Generator.net
Flash-based e-Learning quizzes, games and applications (more use with school-level than FE or HE)Free basic level of multiple-choice generator, with licenses for more complex games (e.g., football shootouts) from £25-300 depending on individual or institutional licence.
- Content generator
- Multiple Choice quiz generator
- Match-up quiz generator
- Penalty Shootout generator
- Walk the Plank generator
- Interactive diagram generator
Toufee
Flash moviemaker. Non technical users can quickly create impressive multimedia items in Flash, including movies, banners, presentations, slideshows, and e-cards. Free Trial for 30 days then $5 per month.Labels: e-learning tools, elearning tools, games, learning games, links, websites
posted by Helen Whitehead 9:27 AM
Monday, 5 November 2007
Links for week commencing 5th November
The Bazaar - Home
http://www.bazaar.org/
The Bazaar - portal for Open Source for Learning in Europe
The Bazaar is a community portal for people who want to use, exchange and share Open Source Software and resources to support learning.
Distance Learning through Telematics
http://www2.plymouth.ac.uk/distancelearning
The University of Plymouth's e-learning website, containing regularly updated pages of research, projects, events, personnel and news on e-learning, web 2.0 and distance education. Also holds course content including handouts, workshop materials and PowerPoint presentations for free download.
World map of social networks
http://valleywag.com/networks-273201.php
A map of the world, showing the dominant social networks by country, according to Alexa. Very different in different countries. Facebook has sway in the UK, but hi5 is the most international network…
Coming Of Age: An Introduction To The NEW Worldwide Web
by Terry Freedman et al.
http://fullmeasure.co.uk/Coming_of_age_v1-2.pdf
Ebook (2006)Labels: e-learning, ebook, elearning, links, social networking
posted by Helen Whitehead 10:37 AM
Thursday, 27 September 2007
Links - a bit late! - for week commencing 24th September
From David Bradley, Science writer:
blog and podcasts
http://www.sciencebase.com/
I was looking for an asynchronous whiteboard, because the tool in Blackboard is itnended for use during synchronous sessions.
Online collaborative whiteboard: Skrbl
http://www.skrbl.com/
What we really wanted was a Wiki that could be used as a collaborative mindmap.
I found several reviews of online mindmap tools, and the most useful tool looks like it may be Mindmeister:
http://www.mindmeister.com/
Web 2.0 is truly wonderful. Someone has probably invented the application you're looking for - although it may not work with the others you'd like it to and it may not be free - but it often is free, at least at a basic level! It's a good business model. You only buy into the tools you actually find useful.Labels: collaborative whiteboard, links, mindmap
posted by Helen Whitehead 8:55 AM
Monday, 17 September 2007
Links for week commencing 17th September
Creative Learning Activities with Moodle
Interesting set of slides from Paula de Waal at Padua University about being creative in using the tools available in Moodle. Ideas also applicable for other VLEs - we can all try to be more creative about the tools we've got.
A bit trivial - but an intriguing blog story:
An American "mommy blogger" gained notoriety from this listing on eBay http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=130144061675
You then need to read her blog (which is very funny infact) to see what the notoriety did to her blog hits. http://mom2my6pack.blogspot.com/
More blogs:
Bioethics Bites - a a collection of resources to assist in the teaching of bioethics. This project was established and is maintained by Chris Willmott at the University of Leicester, UK. There are presently three members of the BioethicsBytes team - Chris, Bonnie Green and David Willis. http://bioethicsbytes.wordpress.com/
And Microbiology Bytes http://microbiologybytes.wordpress.com/ "the latest news about microbiology, in a form that everyone can understand." This site is created by Alan Cann, also at the University of Leicester. He also has a blog entirely about frogs
And also (from Alan Cann's education blog) draft guidelines for using external web 2.0 services from the University of Edinburgh.Labels: blogging, blogs, links
posted by Helen Whitehead 11:45 AM
Monday, 10 September 2007
Links for week commencing September 10th
Online Tutoring
e-book by Carol Higginson, from 2000
http://otis.scotcit.ac.uk/onlinebook/
Common Ground
"The intersection of art, philanthropy, and the environment."
http://www.commonground2008.com/
EduTools
Old VLE comparison
http://www.edutools.info/item_list.jsp?pj=8
New peer review version
http://www.edutools.info/static.jsp?pj=4&page=HOME
"e-learning - making it work"
A major national one-day conference for the Learning and Skills sector jointly organised by QIA (the Quality Improvement Agency) and ALT (the Association for Learning Technology) on
11 October 2007 at NCSL in Nottingham.
http://www.alt.ac.uk/fepc2005.htmlLabels: links
posted by Helen Whitehead 9:00 AM
