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MmIT conference - Cloudbusting - Demystifying the Cloud, The University of Sheffield, 5 April 2013.
Match report of England Lions v NZ, Tour Match, Grace Road, 2nd day from England v New Zealand
The ProScope Micro Mobile by handheld digital microscope manufacturer Bodelin starts shipping on May 1 for $149. Read this article by Elizabeth Armstrong Moore on CNET.
I think what is mainly new is structuring the content into a guide like this. Key contenet areas are: - What are open educational resources? - Open educational resources – the story so far - Finding and sharing open educational resources - Open licensing - Approaches to releasing, using, reusing and repurposing open educational resources - The rationale for adopting open educational resources - Practical guidance: Manage, Find , Use and Reuse, Release, Share, License, Track, Collaborate - Benefits case studies: Teacher, Learner, Institution, Communitities
Students and faculty may love them, but IT personnel get a major headache when they try to integrate Apple tablets--and the company's TV technology--in an enterprise setting.
These Universities are leveraging the smart phones that are in most student's hands to provide mobile access to learning resources and administrative tools. As
UK Culture Minister Ed Vaizey recently announced that the UK Government will consider extending the Public Lending Right (PLR) programme to include e-books. Under the PLR legislation, authors of the e-books would have the right to receive payment for the loans of their books by public libraries.
A keynote presentation at the PELeCON conference in April 2013
Kate Bevan: Choosing a new tablet is much more complicated if you have multiple needs – but which will suit me best?
Bitnami recently released the instructions for setting up your own Moodle using Amazon Web Services, a scalable, cheap cloud hosting environment for websites and apps. If you're looking for Moodle 2.2 and want a test/dev or even a production site this might be worth looking into.
U-Now is The University of Nottingham’s collection of open educational materials that have been openly licenced for anyone to use. The materials range from complete modules to smaller-scale learning objectives and highlight a range of teaching and learning activities from across the University
If you’ve ever watched your students hypnotically click through an online photo album, you know about the captivating power of digital photography. The rise…
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Jisc Legal has published a BYOD toolkit in response to the rise in learners and employees using their personal computing devices (typically smart phones and tablets) in the work and learning environment.
Chris Armstrong & Ray Lonsdale | UKeiG London Wednesday, 12 June
An introduction to Google in Education including Apps for Education a free set of communication and collaboration tools.
Socrative still allows you to collect responses anonymously or with the requirement that students enter their names. Students don't have to create an account to participate in any of your activities. To participate they simply need to enter your Socrative room number when they visit m.socrative.com on their laptops, iPads, Android tablets, or any other device that has a web browser.
Screenr | Instant screencasts: Just click record. Screenr’s web-based screen recorder makes it a breeze to create and share your screencasts around the web. Just click the record button, capture your screen & voice, and share the link.
Lambda Solutions is pleased to host and sponsor “half hour how to Moodle" webinars in support of the Moodle community. Moodle how to webinar. Short, topical webinars on Moodle features, facilitated by Ben Young and Chad Leaman of Lambda Solutions, a certified Moodle Partner. Thursday, April 25, 2013, at 10:00 am PDT.
EdTechTeacher provides professional development services to teachers, schools, districts, and administrators.
This special 80+page report looks closely at how academic and special libraries are using tablet computers.
For a couple of years now to support my research in Twitter community analysis/visualisation I’ve been developing my Twitter Archiving Google Spreadsheet (TAGS). To allow other to explore the possibilities of data generated by Twitter I’ve released copies of this template to the community.
The Apps4Us challenge will develop an app to boost maths in England. To develop this app NIACE, along with its Maths4Us partners, has been running a competition for developers who think they can meet the challenge. Please take a few minutes to view the presentations, then...vote for your favourite app. The winner will receive funding to develop their idea into a free, downloadable app.
The great Evernote experiment is underway in the UK. Adam Webster details how he went all-digital with the help of iPads and Evernote.
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Excellent media rich guide to getting started. Details of the hardware and apps needed with many links direct to the suppliers. Uses Xerte HTML 5