Tag: RSC NewsFeed

RSC NewsFeed eBook Edition

At the RSC we are always looking for new ways to distribute NewsFeed. Around this time last year we introduced a printable PDF digest as ‘RSC NewsFeed Tabloid Edition’. This document is automatically created by a free 3rd party web service, tabbloid.com, and added to our navigation column via the Make Tabbloid plugin. With the […]

Cloud Computing Study – Call for Participation

Cloud Computing by mansikka JISC has commissioned a study at the University of Strathclyde to review the environmental and organisational implications of cloud computing in higher and further education. The project team is keen to hear from HE and FE professionals who are involved in managing ICT, administration, elearning and estates who would be willing […]

Having Phun with physics

Phun is an educational, entertaining and somewhat (!) addictive piece of software for playing around in a 2D physics sandbox in a cartoony fashion. Phun is not just another game, but is intended to bring in interactive physics as an enabling technology for entirely new concepts and usage patterns in creative computing for animation, simulation, […]

Web Applications with Real-time Interaction

In the last few editions of NewsFeed we’ve highlighted Google Wave, Google’s new platform which enables users to have real-time interaction when collaborating on documents (see Google Wave in Two Minutes and 7 Things You Should Know About Google Wave). Whilst Google weren’t the first to publicise the potential of real-time collaboration they have grabbed […]

RSC Access and Inclusion nominated for Edublog Award 2009

The RSC Access and Inclusion Forum has been shortlisted for the international Edublog Awards for best educational use of a social networking service. The Edublog Awards are an annual, community based programme which recognises and celebrates excellent practice in the use of weblogs and social media to facilitate education. Entries are welcome from any country, […]

Automatic Captions in YouTube

Video has the potential to be a very stimulating and engaging format for teaching and learning, but at the same time staff have to be aware of the accessibility implications. YouTube continues to be the main player when it comes to web hosting of video clips and with 20 hours of footage uploaded every minute […]

50 Educational Apps for the iPod Touch

My iPod Touch, as viewed from my new iSight by Valerie Reneé Technology regularly features in the majority of reports looking at how education will evolve. Come the new year, I’m sure many students will have ‘shiny’ new gadgets in their pockets. Long gone are the days when your MP3 player just played music or […]

PowerPoint: Embedding YouTube Video

David Hopkins (Bournemouth University) has put together some simple instructions on how to embed YouTube videos into PowerPoint: David’s post includes a test PPT file and a link on how you can preserve the video if you want to upload to SlideShare. Click here for PowerPoint: Embedding YouTube Video

Edinburgh College of Art Launches its ‘Vision’ of Academic Research

On Monday (16 November 2009) the Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) launched ‘Vision’, a new publication about its current and future research projects. ECA has a strong history of ground-breaking research producing work of national and international standing in ‘Art & Design’ and ‘Architecture and the Built Environment’. With the aim of progressing lively and […]

Hotseat: Any Mobile Will Do

In another post in this edition of NewsFeed we touch upon the issue of platform dependency when thinking about using mobiles in mainstream education (there are obviously other facts like ownership and control, but I’ll conveniently ignore these for now).  The glue which is potentially removing platform constraints is the Internet. A direction which is […]

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