Month: September 2010

What I’ve starred this week: September 28, 2010

Here's some posts which have caught my attention this week: Zotero Everywhere: How Will it Change Your Workflow? – September 22, 2010 How to Use an Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) – September 22, 2010 Tobi: a software tool to author DAISY multimedia – September 22, 2010 The city that never sleeps: NeISS projects analyses geolocated Twitter […]

Free SMS voting using intelliSoftware SMS Gateway service

[flickr]130164091[/flickr] Previously I written about Using a Learning Apps (xLearn) textwall for SMS voting for £25/year, but what if you haven’t got £25 to spare? How about free SMS voting*, and when I say free, I don’t mean free for the first 15 votes like SMSPOLL.net or free for the first 30 votes like PollEverywhere.com, […]

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What I’ve starred this week: September 21, 2010

Here's some posts which have caught my attention this week: “Daring to be digital” with Abertay University – September 17, 2010 Is there anybody there? – September 17, 2010 – Post by Rowin Young at JISC CETIS summarising discussion on INSTTECH list on impact of lecture capture Opening Up Learning to All – Technology – […]

How to Google Instant(ise) a Custom Search Engine (CSE) – Revisited

Previously I posted How to Google Instant(ise) a Custom Search Engine (CSE), which like a lot of my pet projects is perpetual beta (my general fallback to explain away bad coding or user interface). In particular it wasn’t until I took Chris Jobling’s Google Custom Search Engine for #PLENK2010 and ‘instantise’ it that a couple […]

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Morphic Resonance, Threshold Concepts, e-Portfolios and OERs

[flickr]3680135473[/flickr] Probably the most unlikely blog post title ever, let me expand. On Friday we had our ePortfolio Scotland 2010 conference at Queen Margaret University. The final presentation on the day was by Dr Gordon Joyce entitled ‘JISC Effective Practice with e-Portfolios – Where are we now?’. As well as giving an overview/update of the […]

What I’ve starred this week: September 14, 2010

Here’s some posts which have caught my attention this week: Developing for the Mobile Web – A one day workshop exploring how developers can reuse and create web content so that it works on variety of mobile devices using Cascading Style Sheets, HTML 5, Javascript and related tools. Institute for Learning and Research Technology (ILRT) University of […]

How to Google Instant(ise) a Custom Search Engine (CSE)

[flickr]4605291728[/flickr] Update: This solution has evolved slightly. More information in How to Google Instant(ise) a Custom Search Engine (CSE) – Revisited Google have grabbed quite a few headlines with their new Instant search and there has been a rush of developers ‘instantising’ other sites. The one which has got the most attention is Stanford student […]

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eAssessment Scotland 2010: Twitter workshop reflections

Last Friday I ran a Twitter workshop as part of ‘eAssessment Scotland 2010: Marking the decade’. In the programme I described the session as: What’s happening? Twitter for Assessment, Feedback and Communication Twitter is a social networking site which continues to divide personal opinion. Some believe that the micro-blogging service is just an opportunity celebrities […]

Using a Learning Apps textwall for SMS voting for £25/year

I’ve written about the different ways you can do electronic voting without buying clickers a number of times from creating a simple wi-fi system, to using services like polleverywhere.com, to even using Twitter (more on the latest on this one in a separate post). For the ‘eAssessment Scotland 2010: Marking the decade’ conference we ran […]

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What’s happening? The ‘utility’ of Twitter in teaching and learning

In this post I want to put down a marker as to the role I think Twitter could have within education. When previously presenting on the use of Twitter in education I’ve always tried to emphasis its not just about a tool for discussion (in fact I try to avoid the word discussion because 140 […]

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