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Swansea University lecturer. Web enthusiast; dabbler in software engineering and control systems; PLENK2010 ds106 and cck11 participant; EG-353 coordinator. Squirrel and meerkat.
Category Archives: teaching
You’ve got an “ology”?
Zaid Ali Alsagoff shared his discovery of schoology.com at last week’s Wednesday presentation on #CCK11 so I’ve posted the link in a blog post “You’ve got an “Ology”? on the Swansea Learning Lab community blog. We also discussed lecture capture … Continue reading
Screencasting for Lecture Capture
During this first couple of weeks of the new teaching term I’ve been experimenting with using screen capture software as a means of capturing my lectures. Using nothing more than the built-in microphone on my Macbook Pro and an educational … Continue reading
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Tagged e-learning, lecture capture, screencasting, tools and techniques, web applications
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Tara Brabazon: Written evidence of the workings of the mind
Tara Brabazon, writing today for the Times Higher, provides a useful analysis of the common mistakes students make when submitting assignment work and suggests ways that we in academia could improve the first year experience. Her 20-point check list of … Continue reading
My First Pencast
Last year, I bought a Livescribe Echo Smart Pen with the hope that it would be useful in teaching. Well, here the result of my first attempt to use it “in anger”. I used the pen to write out a … Continue reading
Welcome Class of 2011
Welcome to the blogging exercise ICCT class of 2011. Please leave the link to your new blog in the comments.
SOCRAIT: If they build it I will come
Those of you who are regular readers will know that I spent 10 weeks from September to November immersed (almost literally) in the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Personal Learning Environments, Networks and Knowledge (PLENK2010). As already reported, one … Continue reading
Digital literacy, passion and changing educational paradigms
On Sunday, I finally found the time to listen to the recording of guest Will Richardson, author of Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms, from Wednesday’s #PLENK2010 live Elluminate session. In this session, Will gave a … Continue reading
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Tagged digital literacy, learning, ple, plenk2010, week6
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Blackboard 9.1 Tips – #1 Campus Pack
Learning Objects Campus Pack, used to provide for blogs, wikis and podcasts in Swansea University’s VLE, was updated at the same time as Blackboard. If you have one or more Learning Objects blog(s), wiki(s) or podcast(s) in your Blackboard (learning … Continue reading
Great Teaching
I love this video from the first lecture of CS 106A Programming Methodology (Recorded in Fall 2008). Apart from the enthusiasm of the lecturer Mehran Sahami, which is infectious, it’s a great source of inspiration for learning and teaching: Grading … Continue reading
Podcast of the Week #1: E-Learning Stuff
I read a lot of blogs and I listen to a lot of podcasts, so I thought I’d use this blog to tell you about some of my favourites. Here’s the first of an occasional series of recommendations: It’s e-Learning … Continue reading
