August 29, 2008
I've been chatting to lots of people at work about rolling out our QR code projects. Triangualtion with Gwen and Matt resulted in me making a nice Friday discovery for those people who use / generate QR codes. The scenario is as ...
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August 04, 2008
I tried using Twitter, SMS, Word Clouds and Audience Response Systems in my last presentation. I suppose the first question must be, why use so many technologies? A previous comment on this blog asked if there was any evidence of people using ...
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July 14, 2008
The aim of this paper is to introduce the potential of using word clouds within your teaching and learning. In particular, it will explain address what a word cloud is, what we should take into consideration when using them and compare a selection ...
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July 03, 2008
I've finally written up some observations from the survey I undertook of Twitter uses a few months ago. The article abstract is ..."This paper reports the findings from a survey of people who are using Twitter. Twitter feels like the new ...
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June 20, 2008
I've been discussing the idea of students on a course using an agreed tag within their tweets to comment on their course. You could then search against this to collect the tweets together. Some of the previous blogs statements elaborate on this ...
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June 17, 2008
Kurtz et al., (2007) in ACMSE March 2007, pg 484-489.I'm going to focus on the tablet PC aspect as the use of tablet pcs in higher education is the topic of under discussion at the WEET-HE meeting this afternoon (West of England e-Learning ...
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June 11, 2008
As some of you are aware I've been experimenting with different uses of QR codes in face to face teaching. A scenario that I've just tested is the following ... providing the presentation as a text file which the audience can download at ...
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June 06, 2008
This post is driven from a comment by Alice on a previous post. The question was can students use their twitter accounts (assuming they have one) to post comments and questions to the lecturer to either addresses directly in the class, review ...
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May 30, 2008
Introduction Twitter is the technology which is currently riding high in the popularity stakes. In July, 2007, TwitDir.com identified 340 000 public Twitter accounts. On average every day 2000 new Twitter accounts are created ...
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May 29, 2008
The following was emailed to me, and I had a spare 20 minutes to piece together a few ideas I’ve been working on. OK, they weren’t free, I should have been working through the Moodle FAQs (sorry Roger)."I've been having a bit ...
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