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Entries Tagged as 'tools'

Making it happen: teaching the technology generation

July 7th, 2008 · 4 Comments

This is a video of my presentation to the JISC Regional Support Centre for Yorkshire & Humber on June 10th at Bradford University. The sub-title of the presentation was Beyond “no significant difference”, on the basis that, in education, we use technology to do things the same way as we have always done rather than [...]

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Tags: Learning · Technology · Web 2.0 · changing culture · teaching · tools

Death by blogging

April 29th, 2008 · No Comments

Take care.

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Tags: Learning · Technology · Web 2.0 · blogging · tools

Techno-bedouins: nomads of the 21century

April 13th, 2008 · No Comments

This Special Report in the Economist highlights the impact of an increasingly connected world on the way we live, work, communicate and generally spend our days. All those gadgets (mobile phones, laptops, PDAs) that we have been carrying around for years, and which tantalised us with promises of quick and easy access to an [...]

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Tags: Technology · change · changing culture · connectivity · tools · wireless

Zotero - a useful research tool

February 22nd, 2008 · 2 Comments

A great research tool that sits within Firefox and can be accessed both on- and offline. Like del.icio.us, Zotero automatically captures citation information from web pages and allows you to add notes, tags and attachments. Unlike del.icio.us it also stores copies of Word and PDF docs, images and other files.
Zotero’s main window consists of [...]

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Tags: Web 2.0 · tools

Central Desktop - a team collaboration tool

February 12th, 2008 · No Comments

I’ve chosen Central Desktop to manage our Audio Supported Enhanced Learning Project. Like Backpack, CD is a web-based organisational and team collaboration tool, but is a lot more sophisticated and has many more features. It allows you to create online workspaces to share documents and files, manage task lists and milestones, and engage [...]

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Tags: Technology · collaboration · tools

e-Learning Handbook

November 27th, 2007 · No Comments

The e-Learning Handbook is another useful resource produced by Jane Hart at the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies. It is divided into a number of parts, each of which contains links to resources, reading lists and examples. It is a good starting point if you want to get an overview of all things [...]

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Tags: Learning · Web 2.0 · tools

Top 100 tools for learning

November 27th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Jane Hart, head of the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies, has produced a useful list of the most popular tools used by learning professionals. The list is a mix of proprietary, open source and web-based tools. She has also grouped them by type, and given other suggestions of similar tools in each category.

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