I picked up an old journal article on podcasting from 2010: Pol-Casting: The Use of Podcasting in the Teaching and Learning of Politics and International Relations by Jason Ralph, Naomi Head and Simon Lightfoot of the School of Politics and International Studies, at the University of Leeds. It was still interesting for a
Every time a new technology comes along, it take s time to really utilise its potential because we view it through the lens of previous technologies. This was the “digital artifact” I submitted for the assessment of EDCMOOC, the Coursera MOOC I did recently. It was well received, although obviously
I don’t have a lot of time to blog, and it gets difficult to maintain two blogs, so most of my recent blogging can be found at the University of Nottingham’s Learning Technology Section blog My favourite post in May was Video recording conferences with the Kodak Zi8 in which
I’m the main blogger at the University of Nottingham’s Learning Technology Section blog so you’ll find more of my blog posts there than at Learning Communities at the moment. Some of my April posts have been: Why I like Moodle Spirituality, syrup & sacred calendars Creating passwords and security questions
TED talks are always worth watching, so it’s difficult to recommend any particular one. However, if you’re interested in video in education, though, take a look at Salman Khan’s TED Talk
If you came to Reach Further’s workshop on Viral Videos last week, led by Delia Macnamara of imagine dpm, you’ll know that there are a LOT of videos out on the web and it takes expertise and luck to make a video a viral success. According to a study reported on today
Here’s an inspirational video about the changing nature of learning by replacing classroom with community and other innovative strategies. “The death of education – the dawn of learning” Stephen Heppell Originally published on reachfurther.com
Following on from Saturday’s newspaper story about Fat Gourg, the 7-year-old’s monster who become an internet craze in France, the story hit the local TV yesterday – and the French fans have already put it up on Youtube. If they had shown the interview they did with me I would
My project Kids on the Net features today in the Leicester Mercury – and it’s all down to a monster (“Fat Gourg”) created by seven-year-old Luke, during a writing workshop I held in a Leicestershire primary school in March 1999. Starting as one of our many writing ideas for kids
The BBC has an interesting report on how “growing numbers of individuals and small businesses are using home-made videos to sell goods and services online.” A new way of marketing and promoting your business, or even yourself? Imoondo.com is a US site for video classifieds. No doubt more and more