Archive for October, 2011
How to find your Twitter RSS feed URL
October 31st, 2011 at 09:10
It’s surprisingly difficult to find the RSS feed for a Twitter stream. Here is the way to do it: Find out your Twitter numeric ID (you can do this by entering a Twitter username at idfromuser Add it into the following URL (replace the Xs) http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/XXXXXXX.rss
e-Learning Community: Wed 9 Nov: Liaising with students on placement
October 28th, 2011 at 03:10
The e-learning community meetings are back for another year. The next meeting is Wednesday, November 9th, 2011 in A48, Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park from 12:30 till 2PM. The theme for this first session is liaising with students on placement. The presentations will explore how software tools can be used to look after placement [...]
Objects of belief videos: Lyle’s Golden Syrup
1 October 28th, 2011 at 09:10
Hurrah, the video about Lyle’s Golden Syrup that I mentioned in my previous post Spirituality, Syrup and Sacred Calendars is now available on YouTube. It’s a fascinating story about how the design on the tin was inspired by a Bible story. Dr Frances Knight from Theology was filmed by the TV and Video Unit in the Learning Technology [...]
Making it plain: curriculum design best practice meeting
October 26th, 2011 at 01:10
What it means to be responsive to students and seeing someone’s insides on the outside were highlights of the Learning and Teaching Practice Experts Group Meeting last week in Birmingham. The theme was Sharing Effective Practice around Curriculum Design Practices and Processes. It was a well attended event and showed examples of effective institutional practice [...]
Easy online tool to crop and resize photos
October 24th, 2011 at 12:10
Need an easy way to crop and resize photos or do simple edits on a graphic such as adding text or highlighting an area? A simple online tool is available from graphics master software providers Photoshop. At Photoshop Express Editor you don’t even have to login, you can upload and edit .jpg files very easily. [...]
Model for engagement
2 October 21st, 2011 at 03:10
With the rollout of Moodle here at the University I have increasingly been pondering on what is the most effective way to engage academic staff with technology enhanced learning? Online courses, face-to-face training, support websites, handouts, study guides, posters…. the list goes on and the answer is, of course, “yes all of them”. The academic community [...]
Rogō – the new name in e-assessment
October 20th, 2011 at 07:10
From the end of October TouchStone, the centrally supported e-assessment tool at the University will be known as Rogō (Latin for ‘I ask’). This is to avoid possible trademark infringements around the previous name following the decision to release the software under an open source licence. With the support of JISC, Nottingham will package Rogō [...]
Free graphics for e-learning, powerpoints and blogs
October 19th, 2011 at 10:10
I’m always looking for free graphics that can be customised for use in blog posts, Powerpoints or online learning. So thanks to the Rapid eLearning Blog for 25 More Free Display Graphics for Your E-Learning Courses. They offer a selection of graphics including blank chalkboards, whiteboards, flipcharts and the like with instructions on how to [...]
If Thomas Jefferson were alive he’d be training in Moodle
October 18th, 2011 at 12:10
“Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.” ― Thomas Jefferson As part of the move towards Moodle replacing WebCT (from Sept 2012), the Moodle Project Team have recently published the dates for our Moodle training courses. They’re available right here: http://tiny.cc/TrainMe Training sessions are held every fortnight from early December 2011 right through [...]
What do you think of it so far?
October 14th, 2011 at 06:10
We asked our pilot users what they think of Moodle so far, and here’s what they said. The larger words in the graphic were the ones which were repeated by more than one person. Top comment was “ease of use”.