Category: Reviews

August 4, 2008

London Pedagogy Planner

Filed under: Reviews, Technology, Uncategorized - 04 Aug 2008

London Pedgagocic Planner Logo
The London Pedagogy Planner is intended as “a collaborative online planning and design tool that supports lecturers in developing, analysing and sharing learning designs.” - arguably …

August 1, 2008

Google Docs Offline

Filed under: Reviews, Technology - 01 Aug 2008

Google Docs IconI just downloaded “Google Gears, an open source browser extension that adds offline functionality directly to the browser.” Ate the initial synchronisation which takes a …

July 4, 2008

Inquiry in a Networked World LTEA2008 | Keynote Address | Dr David Hodge

Filed under: Reviews, idibl - 04 Jul 2008

Dr David Hodge, President of Miami University, Ohio: Audio visual, full paper.

This practitioner conference brought to life the full breadth and diversity of the inquiry-based ‘movement’. From problem based learning in a medical context through to action …

June 3, 2008

4th EduMedia Conference 2008 “Self-organised learning in the interactive Web”

Filed under: Reviews, idibl - 03 Jun 2008

In Salzburg for a couple of very enjoyable days. Of particular interest me was the discussion around the presentation by Sebastien Fielder and Terje Väljataga in their paper “Competence advancement supported by social media”.

Two aspects in particular:

1. The discussion around …

September 14, 2007

Testing use of MarsEdit from Vienna Newsreader for Blog posts

Filed under: Reviews - 14 Sep 2007

Hopefully a downloaded Vienna script will make this possible.

I now use Vienna Newsreader instead of NetNewsWire and so far have found it to be comparable in terms of functionality that I require and its usability is good:

“Vienna is …

Drive for more mature students | BBC News

Filed under: Reviews, idibl - 14 Sep 2007

The BBC reports: Derive for more mature students

The rhetoric reported below fits squarely with our work at the Institute for Educational Cybernetics at Bolton University, as we work towards developing a range of new offering for workplace-based learning using …

August 24, 2007

Student retention | Ormond Simpson the Open University

Filed under: Reviews - 24 Aug 2007

This is an excellent Breeze presentation by Ormond Simpson of the OU for anyone interested in HE retention issues. If the financial discussion isn’t of interest, skip onto slide 23.

Concluding this Breeze presentation Ormand suggests that there are …

June 21, 2007

Federated access management - (federated Single-SignOn)

Filed under: Reviews, Technology - 21 Jun 2007

This short video explains in a simple way “federated access management (FAM)” (aka single sign-on). The UK version is called “The UK Access Management Federation” and as a federations is based upon trust between institutions in the …

June 3, 2007

Association for Learning Technology (ALT) certification scheme - slightly bonkers in one respect!

Filed under: Reviews - 03 Jun 2007

last week I finally got my ALT certified member scheme. The process of gaining certification proved useful to me as it forced me to reflect on my work over the past 8 years in the field of learning …

May 9, 2007

How education in 2015 looked in 1994!

Filed under: Reviews - 09 May 2007

This link will take you to an archival website made by Ultralab, I think a collaboration between Richard Millwood and Tom Smith. Unfortunately, the comments don’t work anymore but it makes for an interesting and amusing …

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