Stuck for inspiration? How about being spoilt for choice instead? Here are three sets of resources you may not have heard about before. And also, in three formats that are aimed to also set you thinking. As always, if you
Have you tried….?
Games – just play or can we learn from them?
I’ve been collecting a few articles on video games and what we can learn from them for a little while, and after two comments on presentations at the Future Learningscapes conference yesterday at the University of Greenwich, In virtual worlds
E-Ménage à trois?
The union of quite possibly three of the biggest players on the e-learning scene happened yesterday. After watching Germany get knocked out of the World Cup last night my Twitter feed came alive, but not with the usual critique of
Richer Media (even in a tough economic climate!)
I’m very excited. Sometimes I think that doesn’t happen very often, but actually I do get quite excited by things that will make a major difference to the learning experience, the student experience, even if I then am frustrated by
Designing E-learning
Just a couple of additional resources following directly on from the longish post on thinking a bit outside of the box with your PowerPoint presentations. If you spend a couple of coffee breaks looking into the tutorials, you will soon
Perfecting PowerPoint (how can you not read this?!)
We’ve all heard it, ‘death by powerpoint’, and we know that we might want to do things differently, or even break away from the whole 55 min standupandlecture thing, but it’s just so hard to do, right? For myself, I
Technology and Teaching
Sometimes we hear that people think the E-learning Team do nothing but Blackboard. This sometimes feels like the case to us too, but often that’s because we have a lot of people asking for help with Blackboard. Actually, often people
Expectations for online teaching
I’ve done this before, and I don’t see any reason why not to model good practice again. Jason Rhode has blogged the video below, and I can’t really phrase it any better. Although it is all really common sense, it’s
Blackboard Teaching & Learning Conference 2010 – Swansea
For the last few days I’ve been in Swansea for the first Blackboard Teaching & Learning Conference, a 3 day event hosted by Swansea University. Focused on innovation and looking forward, the conference had almost 50 presentations from institutions around the world and from Blackboard themselves, in this post I’ll be writing about some of the presentations I saw during the conference.
Twitter – what is it, can I use it?
Lots of chatter on the t’interweb around the world is carried via Twitter. It’s a “micro-blogging tool”, which might not make any sense to you either! Basically, it’s sending very short updates from your computer, the web or your phone