Useful data for physics and chemistry students
I picked this one up from the Intute Science, Engineering and Technology New Resources feed. The Higher Education Academy Physical Sciences Centre have produced two data sheets for chemistry and […]
Martin Hawksey
Stop Email Overload Using Wikis, Blogs, and Instant Messaging
This post comes via Seb Schmoller’s Fortnightly Mailing. Seb highlights a post detailing the processes a small company uses to overcome ‘inbox overload’ and effectively manage projects using wikis, blogs […]
Photosynth Competition!
In the last issue of NewsFeed we highlighted Photosynth, an application from Microsoft that lets you create three-dimensional representations of places and objects using digital images. Well it appears some […]
Edmodo: Microblogging for teachers and students
If you are interested in micoblogging services like Twitter you may be interested in Edmodo. Edmodo described themselves as: a private microblogging platform that teachers and students can use to […]
The week in Higher Education (Week 37)
Universities have allowed themselves to become the casual … Times Online – UK That country, she said, invested 2.9% of its national product in higher education, compared with Britain’s paltry […]
UCISA Survey: Technology Enhanced Learning For Higher Education in the UK
UCISA have recently published results from the 2008 survey on Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL). The survey is the fourth in a series of surveys which have, over time, looked at […]
The week in Higher Education (Week 36)
Not philistine, just practical guardian.co.uk – UK It’s certainly true that the expansion of the higher education system since the 1950s has resulted in wider access to a university education. […]
Ultra mobile, ultra cheap – Netbooks
I’m returning to university and wonder if you could recommend a gadget for note taking? I’d like to use my MacBook – typing would be easier than writing – but […]
Do Virtual Worlds have a Place in Education?
This is the question being asked by the Scottish Regional Support Centres and Higher Education Academy (Scotland) at the Virtual Worlds Conference at the University of Stirling on the 29th […]
Twitter Ye! Twitter Ye! Keep your students informed with free SMS text message broadcasts!
Update: Twitter currently sends free text messages to users on Vodafone, Orange, O2 and 3 Update (12/11/13): View the complete list of Twitter’s supported mobile carriers and more about using […]