From David Bradley, Science writer:blog and podcastshttp://www.sciencebase.com/ I was looking for an asynchronous whiteboard, because the tool in Blackboard is itnended for use during synchronous sessions.Online collaborative whiteboard: Skrblhttp://www.skrbl.com/ What we really wanted was a Wiki that could be used as a collaborative mindmap.I found several reviews of online mindmap
Marion Miller, Manager, JISC Regional Support Centre for Yorkshire and Humber, University of Leeds, summed up the contributions to the theme: Learning technology for the social network generation. She made an interesting suggestion that the VLE “has had its day”. The focus is moving away from VLEs towards social networks
I was looking through my notes from the ALT conference and realising that I hadn’t quite finished reflecting on the sessions. It seems unfair that the later sessions should miss out on reporting. I tried to attend some sessions that were relevant to my areas of expertise and some that
The BBC has an interesting roundup of social networking sites under the headline “Don’t be lonely this Christmas”
Here are some of the most representative library blogs I’ve found. Some librarian blogs are among the best blogs I’ve read. Must be something about librarians and information… From the UK, USA and Australia. Peter Scott’s Library Blog http://xrefer.blogspot.com/ Links Cambridge University Medical Library http://cambridgemedicallibrary.blogspot.com/ Facts Spineless (Heriot Watt) http://hwlibrary.wordpress.com/
A librarian colleague told me today about her success in using a new presentation technique. The Introduction to the library and how to use it probably isn’t one of the most exciting things that happen to new students in Fresher’s Week … so no doubt librarians in Universities up and
Creative Learning Activities with Moodle Interesting set of slides from Paula de Waal at Padua University about being creative in using the tools available in Moodle. Ideas also applicable for other VLEs – we can all try to be more creative about the tools we’ve got. A bit trivial –
Here’s an interesting article on “the wiki way” from the Guardian. “Don Tapscott, the author of an eye-opening new book called Wikinomics, says that we have barely begun to imagine how the internet will change the way we live and work. He tells Oliver Burkeman how everything from gold mining
Season of Inspiration online writing course There are still some spaces left on our latest online writing course Season of Inspiration 9-week online writing course. Starts 8th October 2007 for 9 weeks. Join us in making the most of seasonal colours and scents, metaphors of the season, place and time
This is a 2D barcode of the URL of the ELKS community. Apparently these barcodes are all the range in Japan where people use their web-enabled mobile phones to read them and then surf to the URL. They are used, e.g., on a poster for a radio station to encourage