Tag: Colleen McCants
What Use the Paper Poster Nowadays?
April 11th, 2011 at 11:04
Why put posters on paper when they could go online? Assumedly, a body promoting Technology Enhanced Learning should embrace the medium. Therefore, this year the Association for Learning Technology’s Conference, ALT-C 2011, has dispensed with paper posters, bringing in the PechaKucha speed-presentation format, likewise naming the submissions ‘ePosters.’ Given that the poster we submitted, last September won the Best [...]
Notes from the 9th Virtual Worlds in Education Forum: Presentation_COMSLIVE
December 17th, 2010 at 04:12
The Wonder of Good Communication Nigel Wynne, co-host of the Forum and Senior Academic in Learning and Teaching in the Faculty of Health at BCU, gave a synopsis of his research funded by JISC LTIG, ‘Communication Skills Learning within Immersive Virtual Environments’, which was concerned with deficits in nursing students’ communication, team working and delegation [...]
Notes from the 9th Virtual Worlds in Education Forum: Presentation_World War 1 poets in SL
December 17th, 2010 at 04:12
Lest We Forget: The Sound of the Western Front After lunch, Chris Stephens, Senior Developer with Oxford University Computing Services, shared his Second Life recreation of life and conditions on the Western Front in the 1914-18 time period. The environment uses several levels to model the life in the camps and on the front, and [...]
Notes from the 9th Virtual Worlds in Education Forum: Presentations
December 17th, 2010 at 03:12
Presentation: Missionmaker The first presentation was by Andrew Hutchinson, Project Leader, Midland Leadership Centre, who gave an enthusiastic demo of an interesting and inexpensive tool for drag-and-drop creation of virtual learning/gaming spaces. Missionmaker is touted as a game authoring tool for creative learning. A child could use it, yet the interactivity creation seemed quite feasible [...]
Notes from the 9th Virtual Worlds in Education Forum
December 16th, 2010 at 01:12
The one-day conference was held in the amazing new Secole Building at Birmingham City University on the 8th of December, 2010. This being my first such virtual worlds meeting, I was surprised to recognise names amongst the participants and encounter builders of well-know marvels, in person, no less. The event was organised by Jane Edwards [...]