Blogging IT and EDucation
Day 1: Relive 08
Thu, 2008/11/20 - 11:22 — EmmadwKeynote 1: Edward Castranova
Looking Economics in SL - and volume of money involved.
Our workshop
Seemed to go well; was well worth the time spent setting up all those training accounts.
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Benefits of a VLE.
Tue, 2008/11/18 - 08:13 — EmmadwThere has been an interesting exchange of ideas today, on one of the JISC email lists - re. the benefits of a VLE. I particularly agree with Dave Foord’s post ( Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:37:09 -0000 ) - that good use of the communication tools is what really makes it a learning opportunity - and not just a (rather expensive) document dump.
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Social Conferencing.
Mon, 2008/11/17 - 10:48 — EmmadwAlt C used Crowdvine to get some social networking going during the conference - it was Ok, though I have seen better Social networks (mind you, I’d far rather
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The Auricle › eBooks and the e-learning ‘filling station’ revisited
Mon, 2008/11/17 - 09:09 — EmmadwThe Auricle › eBooks and the e-learning ‘filling station’ revisited Worth reading, but probably easier if printed out.
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Visualising social software.
Mon, 2008/11/17 - 09:07 — EmmadwMalinka Ivanova has a list of a number of tools to visualise links in social networking.
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Edmodo
Mon, 2008/11/17 - 09:03 — EmmadwI’ve recently started using Twitter more and more; I still find it a little difficult - though I suspect that learning to write in 140 characters is actually quite good for me … and I suppose I ought to lrn to txt wrt.
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Create an animation.
Mon, 2008/11/17 - 08:43 — EmmadwSeems a useful tool … xtranormal. I’m sure I can think of a few ideas for it.
From Jane
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Twistory: Turning your Twitter history into an online diary
Mon, 2008/11/17 - 07:01 — EmmadwSArah Robbins points out Twistory - (note the correct URL - http://www.twistory.net ) It seems a rather useful tool.
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Grading Student Blogging
Fri, 2008/10/31 - 06:04 — EmmadwI tend to query how much we should grade student blogging, or demonstrate a tool that they can use for note taking - in a way that can be more flexible (& searchable!) than a paper note book.
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves Punctuation Game
Tue, 2008/10/28 - 02:10 — EmmadwBased on Lynne Truss’ book, this Flash game looks useful. You do have to be quite accurate with where you drop the punctuation mark - so not ideal if you’re a little shaky with the mouse.
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