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QR codes, SMS and class evaluation.

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:50:18 GMT

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I recently read Susono and Shimomura (2006) (http://www.formatex.org/micte2006/pdf/1006-1010.pdf ) who’d used QR codes in formative class assessment. This got me thinking about their potential use in end of class / unit evaluations. So given I

using Twitter in education - what the mlearn audience thought

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:40:07 GMT

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I recently presented at mLearn08 about the potential use of Twitter in Teaching and Learning based on a survey I did quite a while ago (slides: http://www.slideshare.net/andyramsden/how-do-people-use-twitter-a )P

QR codes in presentation - lessons from SMS edutxt event

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:21:07 GMT

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I recently presented om some uses of SMS in e-learning. The focus was on what I'd term an "SMS (edutxt) plus" approach. Where I discussed some uses of SMS with QR codes, word clouds etc., (my usual stuff). If you are interested the slid

provide your vCard as a QR Code on your business cards.

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:00:30 GMT

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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 follows

Using twitter, sms, word clouds and audience response systems in my workshop ... a technology too far?

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:50:09 GMT

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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 Twitter

FAO External Reviewers: Using word clouds in teaching and learning

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:30:14 GMT

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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 of

How and why are people using Twitter: A small group study

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:30:12 GMT

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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 tec

using twitter digest to track sub groups of people on twitter, i.e., students on a course

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:40:21 GMT

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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 i

article review: using podcasts and tablet pcs in computer science

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:50:04 GMT

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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 Teams

Using a QR code to deliver support material during a lecture.

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:50:16 GMT

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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 the