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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 […]

Integrating twitter voting and feedback into PowerPoint

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’ developed by Timo Elliott. Timo’s solution not only integrates voting within a PowerPoint presentation, but he has some other […]

What I've starred this week: October 6, 2009

Here's some posts which have caught my attention this week: Soon to Launch: Lists – October 5, 2009 – Twitter will officially supporting groups/lists in the near future. In the meantime there are plenty of 3rd party sites which already allow you to create maintain twitter groups SharePoint in UK universities – literature review – […]

TwEVS – Presentation (using twitter for electronic voting)

Yesterday I presented TwEVS to the e-Learning Alliance FE/HE SIG held at University of St. Andrews. My presentation (including audio) is below: The day included presentations on remote teaching using video conferencing, electronic voting systems and an introduction to twitter, so finishing on TwEVS seemed to round the day off nicely. When I get a […]

What I've starred this week: September 29, 2009

Here's some posts which have caught my attention this week: Mobile Libraries got a life far outside the Library – September 24, 2009 – “Mobile Libraries is devoted to documenting any and all topics relating to services provided by libraries to patrons within mobile environments.” Google Steps Where Many Have Stumbled: Sidewiki – September 23, […]

What I've starred this week: September 22, 2009

Here's some posts which have caught my attention this week: Look Out Animoto — Stupeflix.TV Makes Video Out Of Tweets And Video, Live – September 21, 2009 Next: An Internet Revolution in Higher Education – BusinessWeek – September 21, 2009 c4lpt: Draft roadmap for Elgg 1.7 http://bit.ly/ouuoS – September 18, 2009 – I know there […]

ALT-C 2009 II: Audio and screen visual feedback to support student learning (and research methodologies)

[flickr]2597104631[/flickr] For the next post in my ALT-C series I’m going to highlight a session I didn’t actually attend but immediately regretted when comments started filtering in on twitter. The session was based around the paper by Rodway-Dyer, Dunne and Newcombe from University of Exeter which summaries a study of audio and visual feedback used […]

MASHe 100th post: Electronic Voting & Interactive Lectures using Twitter (TwEVS)

TwEVS (Original image ‘disk bird’ by r8r) Originally uploaded by m.hawksey The Higher Education blog for Scotland North and East recently hit it’s 100th post. Since its first post in May last year a wide variety of topics have been covered from the analysis of research publications, interviews with noted academics and tips on how […]

What I've starred this week: September 15, 2009

Here's some posts which have caught my attention this week: SocialLearn announced (softly) – September 10, 2009 Masher – September 8, 2009 Asus to launch dual-screen eBook reader – September 8, 2009 Google Goes After Impressionable Minds With Education Apps – September 9, 2009 – JISC has some briefing papers on outsourcing services here: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/documents/bpoutsourcingv1.aspx […]

ALT-C 2009 I: Mobile technology – proximity push and voting/polling on Android

Just back from ALT-C 2009 having been asked to present a session with colleagues on EduApps (this resulted from JISC RSC UK’s donation of an EduApps stick to all conference delegates and ALT members). Over the next couple of days I’ll be making a series of posts to highlight some of the best bits. For […]

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