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Top 100 tools for learning in 2010

October 19th, 2010 · Comments Off · Resources, Tools & applications, Trends

Thank you to Jane Hart for her  Top 100 Tools for Learning 2010 list.  The list is the result of input from 545 people worldwide who shared their top tools. Top100 Tools for Learning 2010 View more presentations from Jane Hart.

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What’s in a book?

October 5th, 2010 · Comments Off · Learning & teaching, Networked learning, Opinion, Resources, Tools & applications, Trends

A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together. Norman Cousins There was some interesting discussion last week at the Strategic Technology Summit in Brisbane around e-books. Their position in the realm of emerging technologies, we decided, was very much reliant on our [...]

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Learning and Teaching Gateway – have your say

April 28th, 2010 · Comments Off · TELT news

Focus groups for Faculties to provide input to the design of the planned online L&T Gateway will commence later in May. We are looking for participants who have an interest in learning and teaching, including teaching support staff, and academics who want assistance with course design and development, applying for grants and awards in learning [...]

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Recording with your iPod

January 6th, 2010 · Comments Off · Resources, Tools & applications

I’ve had a few people ask me for details of the voice recorder I use to do podcasts, and today have been shown another option so shall document both here. To date I have used the TuneTalk Stereo from Belkin. It’s usable with a Nano or standard iPod but not the Touch or iPhone. The [...]

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RefSeek: search engine for students and researchers

January 4th, 2010 · Comments Off · Research, Resources, Tools & applications

I’ve just come across an alternative search engine tool – RefSeek which may be of interest. Currently in public beta, RefSeek aims to ‘make academic information easily accessible to everyone’ and ‘searches more than one billion documents, including web pages, books,encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers’. RefSeek’s greatest appeal I think is it’s clarity of relevant information [...]

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Online resources for learning, teaching and assessment

June 29th, 2009 · Comments Off · Resources

The UK Higher Education Academy and JISC have teamed up to produce a set of online guides and interactive tutorials, designed to help learning and teaching professionals make best use of digital technologies in their practice. The online tutorials and guides are described as giving “practical guidance on how to use digital technologies in areas [...]

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Moodle matters

April 2nd, 2009 · Comments Off · Resources

Thanks to Kerry at Education.au for forwarding the following information…. Moodle is making their popular book “Using Moodle: Teaching with the Popular Open Source Course Management System” FREELY available via a PDF download from the Moodle web site. You’ll also find a wealth of information and support on basic Moodle Activities and resources. Visit the [...]

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