Welcome to our third episode of RSC-MP3, a monthly audio podcast highlighting some higher education focused e-learning news, interviews and resources brought to you by Kevin Brace (RSC West Midlands) and Martin Hawksey (RSC Scotland North and East). Links to the various topics we discuss are given along with the podcast links. You can listen to this podcast on your PC, or when “on the move” by adding it to your ipod playlist.
Each month we will interview a guest speaker and also record a conversation discussing current issues contained in our blogs (see links below). This month we interviewed Ms Carol Bailey, senior lecturer at the University of Wolverhampton. Carol discusses her use of the text matching tool Turnitin, and how the system helps her detect and deter plagiarism and collusion. Carol also describes how her students learn about correct referencing and paraphrasing from the originality reports and the digital feedback she gives them. Click here for the interview with Ms Carol Bailey in full (19 minutes).
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Our blogs
Links from Kevin’s subjects: Timestamps represented as [minutes:seconds]
- Screencasting software : http://kev-brace.blogspot.com/2009/03/screencasting.html – Post on Gabber blog [01:26]
- Everything you wanted to know about use of video http://wiki.rscwmsystems.org.uk/index.php/Streaming_video [03:38]
- Streaming video from a mobile phone to the web Livecast and Qik
- Tokbox – feedback digitally (See Using Tokbox for Live and Recorded Video Feedback on MASHe)
- Viddix – allows you to synchronise video with other content
- Screentoaster – allows you to make quick screen captures without installing any software
- Free webcasting/conferencing with Dimdim [05:58]
- Mahoodle (moodle VLE + Mahara eportfolio) : http://kev-brace.blogspot.com/2009/03/networked-hub.html – Post on Gabber blog [06:50]
- Moogle (linking Moodle to Google docs), plus total cost of Moodle : http://kev-brace.blogspot.com/2009/03/magoogle-or-is-it-moogle.html – Post on Gabber blog [11:11]
- JISC CETIS – e-learning standards and interoperability
- Everything you wanted to know about use of a VLE/Moodle: http://wiki.rscwmsystems.org.uk/index.php/Moodle
- Everything you wanted to know about use of an eportfolio: http://wiki.rscwmsystems.org.uk/index.php/Eportfolios
- Comment on how popular culture is making us smarter: http://kev-brace.blogspot.com/2009/03/everything-bad-is-good-for-you.html – Post on Gabber blog
- Comment on active learning: http://kev-brace.blogspot.com/2009/03/active-learning.html – Post on Gabber blog
- ScribeFire is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog
- http://www.slideshare.net/kevinbrace/web-20-in-education-presentation-828271
Links from Martin’s subjects:
- EduApps – portable applications in your pocket https://hawksey.info/blog/?p=234 [17:24]
- EduApps site (includes the original AccessApps)
- List of open source and free software to be made available via EduApps
- Portableapps.com (portable open source software)
- OSS Watch – JISC open source software advisory service (includes a description of open source software)
- Mowes server on a stick – Allows to try out Moodle, MediaWiki, WordPress, Drupal etc [19:20]
- eXe tool for creating learning objects
- Camstudio screen recording
- Zoomit– free screen magnifier (Alternatively DesktopZoom)
- Moodle on a stick from Kidderminster College:
- RSC West Midlands highlight ‘Top 100 e-learning tools’ (For 2009 there is the ‘Top 100 tools for learners’ and ‘Top 100 tools for learning professionals’)
- JISC conference 2009 – (includes video archive of sessions) [25:55]
- The old JISCiPAS service is now http://www.plagiarismadvice.org and there is the new Academy JISC Academic Integrity Service [25:47]
- Popular text matching tool Turnitin [26:27]
- RSC advice on combating plagiarism & collusion : http://wiki.rscwmsystems.org.uk/index.php/Plagiarism
- Third Annual European First Year Experience Conference, May 7-9, University of Wolverhampton, UK (full paper/proceedings forthcoming). Powerpoint available at http://www2.wlv.ac.uk/celt/events/Findinganewvoice.ppt