Month: October 2009

What I've starred this week: October 20, 2009

Here's some posts which have caught my attention this week: Sustainable ICT Procurement in HE – October 19, 2009 Paramedic training in virtual environments honoured by JISC Times Higher Education Award – October 16, 2009 – Overview and demonstration by my good self here: http://tinyurl.com/b2eleu Answering demand for instruction and guidance… in real-time – October […]

RSC Google Wave Phase I: Local installation

Like many others out there I’m interested in Google Wave and the opportunities for communication, collaboration and social learning in education. Followers of my twitter feed will also be aware that I’ve been scrabbling around for an invite to the wave preview site (this is hopefully now in hand thanks to colleagues). One of the […]

Educational Firefox Extensions – Juice

I originally put this post together for RSC NewsFeed, but thought worth reposting here: One of the great features of open source software is the potential for the wider community to start rapidly developing and integrating new features, in many ways utilising the power of the crowd. The web browser Firefox is a great example. […]

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School of Everything

There is an ongoing debate about the position of further and higher education institutions in a world of increased openness where access to high quality educational resources and communities of learners. Ultimately these institutions will undoubtedly continue to exist in some form as places which structure and accredit learning, but it is an ever changing […]

Integrating twitter voting and feedback into PowerPoint

This post originally appeared in the RSC Scotland North & East Higher Education blog (MASHe) on the 6th October:  Regular readers of this blog will know that one of my current interests is using twitter as a live in-class voting tool (TwEVS). Today, via Jane Hart, I was made aware of ‘Free PowerPoint Twitter Tools’ […]

100 Must-Read Blog Posts on the Future of Learning

OnlineSchool.net have put together a list of the 100 Must-Read Blog Posts on the Future of Learning: With a struggling economy and a president with a keen eye on education, it will be interesting to see what happens to the future of learning with such opposing forces. Plenty of experts and lay-people alike have kicked […]

Educational Firefox Extensions – Juice

One of the great features of open source software is the potential for the wider community to start rapidly developing and integrating new features, in many ways utilising the power of the crowd. The web browser Firefox is a great example. Its origins lie in the developers frustrations of developer driven feature creep. Creating an […]

What I've starred this week: October 13, 2009

Here's some posts which have caught my attention this week: Business specialist becomes UHI secretary – October 12, 2009 webinar protocols – October 12, 2009 c4lpt: Free Powerpoint Twitter Tools http://bit.ly/zAhJF – October 6, 2009 – looks like some great tools you can integrate to get the post out of a twitter backchannel Future of […]

RSC-MP3: HE Update Sep 09

Welcome to our first episode of RSC-MP3 for the new academic year. RSC-MP3 is a monthly audio podcast highlighting some higher education focused e-learning news, interviews and resources brought to you by Kevin Brace (JISC RSC West Midlands) and Martin Hawksey (JISC RSC Scotland North and East). As ever we have summarised links to the […]

RSC-MP3: HE Update Sep 09 – Interview Review

To kick-off the new academic year we look back at the interviews recorded for last year’s RSC-MP3. We have a rich resource of interviews from noted practitioners (and guru’s) from both the UK and even overseas and we discuss our particular highlights from the year. As well as looking back we also look towards the […]

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