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What I’ve starred this week: June 23, 2009

Here's some posts which have caught my attention this week: MEDEV – Call for Mini-Projects (Scotland) – June 23, 2009 Automatically generated from my Google Reader Shared Items.

Web 2.0 & Learning: Overview, Guidelines & Policy Advice

In NewsFeed we are always trying to highlight some of the best web services and practical ways you can use them in teaching and learning. While many of these services are free there are potential risks you need to mitigate against. What do you do if the 3rd party site withdraws their service? Does your […]

Creating Student Video Feedback Using ScreenToaster

video feedback Originally uploaded by theLaika In The RSC NewsFeed March Offcuts we highlighted ScreenToaster the free online application which allows you to record the activity on your computer screen with a single click. The concept of recording your screen is not new and there are various commercial (Camtasia) and free  (CamStudio) applications to do […]

What I’ve starred this week: June 9, 2009

Here's some posts which have caught my attention this week: UHI to host international summer school – June 2, 2009 Automatically generated from my Google Reader Shared Items.

RSC-MP3: HE Update May 09

Welcome to our fifth and final episode of RSC-MP3 for this academic year, the monthly audio podcast highlighting some higher education focused e-learning news, interviews and resources brought to you by Kevin Brace (RSC West Midlands) and Martin Hawksey (RSC Scotland North and East). We redeem ourselves with this last session by paring down our […]

RSC-MP3: HE Update May 09 – Interview with Tomaz Lasic

This month I interviewed Tomaz Lasic, from Belmont City College in Perth, Western Australia. I first found out about Tomaz’s work last September when I was shown a series of demonstration videos (2 Minute Moodles) used to promote Moodle at Belmont (if you haven’t seen these before you should definitely check them out). In this […]

What I’ve starred this week: June 2, 2009

Here's some posts which have caught my attention this week: Web 2.0 – do we need guidelines or policies telling us how to use ‘it’? – June 1, 2009 – I’ve dipped into the resources put together by RSC Wales on Web 2.0 policies and guidelines and they look very good Google Wave Widgets: Implementation […]

Generating Student Video Feedback using ScreenToaster

video feedbackOriginally uploaded by theLaika As I’ve recently revisited on generating audio feedback it seemed timely, particularly with a request from UHI coming into my inbox, to also have another look at video feedback. Russell Stannard recently won a Times Higher Education Award partly for his work in this particular area. In Russell’s work he […]

Audio Feedback

No title Originally uploaded by Dan’s Photos Students are continually reporting dissatisfaction in the feedback they receive during their studies. Common complaints including timing, clarity and usefulness. An area being rediscovered by academics is the use of audio feedback. Audio feedback can be broadly defined as the use of digital media to record messages to […]

HE in a Web 2.0 World Report

The Committee of Inquiry into the Changing Learner Experience (CLEX) have published their final report exploring the global impact of Web 2.0 on Higher Education. The report finds that universities and colleges are “generally falling behind their students in the use of these technologies” and challenges institutions to re-examine how they engage with a generation […]

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