1. Educause – 7 things you should know about QR codes – http://www.educause.edu/ELI/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAboutQRCod/163728 This is another excellent resource from the educause team. This looks at QR codes – what are QR codes, they are an information rich form of barcodes. The QR codes can be text, URLs, email etc. You use a genrator to create [...]
This update has a number of interesting resources and some brilliant professional development/student learning videos. Stuff here for technology, digital citizenship and more. Most of this update is video based. 1. The commoncraft show – http://www.commoncraft.com/ This is one of my all ourite website and Lee LeFevers’s work is stunning. Here are the latest video [...]
Educause has just released the latest of its Seven things you should know series. If you haven’t seen them you should take the time to investigate these monthly reports that examine the educational potential and impact of an emerging technology. The latest is looking at Next generation presentation tools. This is examining tools like Slideshare, [...]
Wow, four days off visiting family. Its so nice to have some downtime, but boy was my RSS reader full. Here are some interesting sites and resources I have found “on the wire”. 1. Storybird – http://storybird.com/ This is a collaborative digital story creation tool. worth a visit. 2. Multitasking research. This is some interesting [...]
This is the latest installment in the Seven things you should know series, this one covering the increasingly popular trend of “Microblogging” Microblogging, of course, includes that staple tool twitter. This paper looks at twitter and microblogging in general from an educational perspective. http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7051.pdf If you need a how to sheet for twitter – use [...]
This is the latest in the series of resources or briefing papers on Web 2.0 tools. In this case the Tool is voicethread. This is an excellent professional development resource: The PDF version of this report is available here – http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7050.pdf Educauses abstract for this tool is… “VoiceThread is a media aggregator that allows people [...]
PLE is Personal Learning Environment. Educause has just released the latest in the 7 things you should know series. This one talks about personal learning Environments. These are great resources for Information Technology, Professional development or just interest. PDF Version -http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7049.pdf Homepage for this issue -http://www.educause.edu/Resources/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAboutPerso/171521 Recent issues in this series Second life – http://www.educause.edu/ELI/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAboutSecon/163004 [...]
The guys from Educause have released their latest addition in the Seven things you should know series. You can download the pdf version at http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7045.pdf Great work and well worth downloading – read the brief at – http://connect.educause.edu/blog/pkurkowski/neweli7thingsbriefexplore/48028
Another resource from Educause. This latest installment of the seven things you should know series looks at lecture capture. Here is the synopsis from the educause site: “Lecture capture is an umbrella term describing any technology that allows instructors to record what happens in their classrooms and make it available digitally. In its simplest form, [...]
Educause has released their latest publication – 7 Things You Should Know About Flip Camcorders These cheap and simple tools have been earning fans everywhere not the least of which is Richard – TEK You can view the article online or down load it as a pdf file Recent: 7 Things You Should Know About [...]
