Friday, 6 November 2009
Free workshop on finding free images
Posted by
Biluś
Jisc's training coordinator Dave Kilbey will be running a short workshop on Finding Free Images Online at next week’s RSC Northern event: The North East’s Got Talent: A Showcase for Best Practice in e-Learning.
Friday, 23 October 2009
Academic journals through RSS feeds
Posted by
Blackbeard
One of the most useful aspects of RSS feeds for academics is the ability to track the latest issues of journals. I use feeds through Google Reader to keep track of journals relevant to my discipline, Ottoman and Mediterranean history. This is a great way of keeping on top of recent developments without having to actually remember to check a journal whenever it's out. The downside for the time being is that not all journals have feeds just yet, but this is certain to change soon.
To set up some feeds from journals, follow the instructions below:
1-Find the website of the journal you want
I chose Past & Present in this case, as it is the one I'm interested in.
2-Go to the website and copy the web address from the address bar. The journal may have an RSS feed button, the orange image you see in some websites.
3-Go to Google Reader and click on 'Add a subscription'. Paste the address there and click 'Add'. If the website has a feed this should work.
4-Reader should show as 'unread' the latest titles from the journal. When you've read these, you will get new ones with the journal's next update, whenever that is.
Catalogues of journals with RSS feeds can be found on Google, here is an example.
Thursday, 22 October 2009
Academics resistant to e-learning?
Posted by
Biluś
An interesting article in today's THE online (thanks Oliver) teases out some of the main reasons why academics might be resistant to 'e-learning':
- when academics saw that their students' technological expertise exceeded their own, their identities as "expert knowledge providers" was undermined
- those interviewed believed that face-to-face contact between academic and student was more important than technology, and that e-learning should supplement rather than replace this
Wednesday, 21 October 2009
Course: e-Submission and plagiarism detection (using Turnitin)
Posted by
Biluś
The Central Team have a few places left on the following course:
e-Submission and plagiarism detection (using Turnitin)
Date: 27th Oct 2009
Time: 2-3pm
Location: Learning Centre
If you are interested in attending and want to reserve a please email Pete Rainger: p.rainger@bham.ac.uk
If you can make this date but want to attend another date please add you name to the register of interest for that course: http://www.skills.bham.ac.uk/ documents/booking/elearning_ booking_form.htm
Friday, 16 October 2009
Great new issue of 'Talking About Learning and Teaching'
Posted by
Biluś
Find it here from the forward-looking Team at Education...
Inside This Issue
- Editorial
- Awards for excellence in teaching or supporting student learning 09 / Communities of practice: teaching fellowship update
- Using university tools to connect research to teaching / Using PebblePad to support personal evaluation and reflection
- Participation in online reflective learning logs / UG academic skills: spreading enhancement
- Deaf students benefit from WebCT / Potential for Facebook in supporting research?
- MA TEFL podcasts / Pre-course learning materials using public files area of WebCT
- E-Learning user and designer sites / Tweeting: Twitter in education / Who's Who: Director of Studies for Initial Teacher Education
- Educational Enhancement Group (EEG) / Learning Environment Group (LEG)
Thursday, 15 October 2009
Facebook is Good Shock Horror
Posted by
Biluś
A recent article (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8299050.stm) suggests that Facebook is a valid tool for use at 'College' and that institutions are beginning to accept the way social networking technology can help bring people together and create a sense of community.
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