Harold is full of good suggestions of late and this Open Office one has made me think. It sounds exciting but scary… am not sure if I could really, in a Uni (& educational culture!) which is enturely MS based, take the plunge. Does anybody else use Open Office and has made the switch from …
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An artifact perspective
Randy at open artifact posts an interesting perspective on the ‘pro’ article I mentioned yesterday. He sympathises especially with the statement: “…students who are not actively participating in the learning community are not assisting other students.” And reflects on his own efforts to facilitate participation, especially in relation to the structure of his courses, the …
Teaching online – two very different ways of looking at it
Feel compelled today to share a couple of articles around, both of which have been doing the rounds but which I think offer an interesting perspective on online teaching when viewed side by side. The first is Kaye Shelton & George Saltsman’s “Tips and Tricks for Teaching Online: How to Teach Like a Pro!” and …
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Blogwise & Blogstreet Links
Just added myself to Blogwise and Blogstreet… again :o) So here are the links.
Creative commons license for incsub users?
Matt Barton at Kairos suggested that I put in the terms and conditions for incsub that people must have a Creative Commons license. I thought about this when I was setting it up and even included it in the first draft, but, thinking about it, it seemed a bit full on. Obviously the software will …
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e-Literate new design
e-Literate has had a lurvely makeover (especially in the dates), ‘owever the reason I write this here is that the comments are too fort knoxy for words… I can’t figure out how to register in order to comment that you shouldn’t have to register to make comments… especially when there’s word recognition in the way …
Melbourne Blogging Workshop
Adrian Miles of vogging fame is running a workshop on educational blogging in Melbourne. He’s put together a beautifully clear outline (.pdf) for the day which will certainly inform my ASCILITE workshop in December.
incsub
Thought I’d go into the whole incsub project in a bit more detail as the revised version of the site is now up. Please have a look around, it’s my, um, third ever effort at putting up a website so feedback would be VERY much appreciated :o) Basically this has come into being from a …
Wikiquote
Stumbled across this browsing for quotes about wikis: “Wikiquote, a free online compendium of quotations in every language, including sources (where known), translations of non-English quotes, and links to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/) for further information.” Here’s some Wilde for ya.
Six criteria of an educational simulation
Via Jane Knight, Clark Aldrich (must be a day for people whose surnames begin with ‘Al’) has written a paper entitled Six criteria of an educational simulation (.pdf). It’s an interesting read actually and reminds me of one colleague in particular who is very fond of (and good at!) illustrating concepts with visual metaphor. Again …
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