During the OER project meetings I’ve been sitting and thinking. In the olden days I used to make little resources – things like animations or spreadsheets that illustrated some abstruse aspect of analytical chemistry or simple web pages. At the time I
This project (and my learning technologist buddy Russell!) has prompted me to achieve another first! I have increasing used my iPad during class to capture and share outputs from group activities etc but for the first time I have created
I started off trying to find an app that would allow me to record my iPad screen as a video. On a PC and presumably on a Mac, there are loads of alternatives. My own personal favourite is the free and easy ScreenR website. However, for the iPad it’s not so easy. So as I searched, I kept on being directed to apps that allow you to create screen casts. Not exactly what I wanted, but interesting none the less. What follows is a review of six free apps that I found…
Just completed a project overview vodcast for the HEA conference in early July – I had hoped to rope in other members of the team but due to holidays etc we were stuck with me – many thanks to Paul
As expected this was a stimulating conference and I have brought back lots of ideas we could follow up on here – I intend to chat to Paul Durston about what might be worthwhile/possible to progress. There was a good
Why are there never enought hours in the day? One of the key learning points for anyone contemplating developing a DL module or programme is how much time it takes. Thought I’m well aware of this, its still a surpise
It seems a while back a lot of people were on fire about Xtranormal. If you’ve never heard of Xtranormal, it’s a website where you can create your own animations in 3D with full text to speech options. It used to be free but those days are gone. The desktop version “State” is still free but at 500MB it’s not a small download. Plus you’ll find that once you’ve wasted a lunch time downloading it you still have to pay for most of the characters and scenes…
Firstly let me start with offering my thanks to Durham University Learning Technologies Team for organising the event and being great hosts. Also apologies that I have a limited amount of photographs as I did not play the role of the paparazzi this year. The ones I do have, mainly of the food as I was very impressed by the catering, have already been used by Chris.
This year the theme was Location, Location, Location and they definitely have the right location to host this conference; a picturesque and beautiful city…
This year’s conference was themed “Location, Location, Location” – a phrase that made a lot more sense to me once someone explained that it is also a reference to a popular televisual programme (m’lud). But enough of my inadequate grasp of Popular Culture – what sort of ideas does this expression encompass?
As you might have guessed, there was exploration of the idea that E-learning can overcome geographical and temporal constraints on learning – i.e. no longer having to be at a specific place (say a Lecture Theatre) at a specific time (say 9am on a Monday) in order to “learn”.
On 8th December myself, Russell Smeaton (E-Learning Team) and Liam O’Hare (School of Science & Engineering) went along to a Higher Education Academy Seminar entitled “Technology Enhanced Assessment for Learning: Case Studies and Best Practice“, held at the University of
