Wcel_Team

New book on using Wave. (Due for pub. Jan10)

50 iTouch apps for Ed. Most seem for kids but some might be useful.

"Respondus is a powerful tool for creating and managing exams that can be printed to paper or published directly to Blackboard, ANGEL, Desire2Learn, eCollege, Moodle, and other eLearning systems. Exams can be created offline using a familiar Windows environment, or moved from one eLearning system to another. Whether you are a veteran of online testing or relatively new to it, Respondus will save you hours on each project. "

Convert your Android phone into a NavMan!

Convert your Android phone into a NavMan!

Check out your psychology profile via twitter!

Short review of Stefani, Mason & Pegler book.

This weeks new Google tool! Take a spreadsheet (Google or Excel) and apply visualisations and pivots without needing to know much about what you are doing. Showed me the Gallery when I first opened - need to click 'New Table' to access your own data.

Debate on digital identity with minors.

Michael Feldstein writes an incisive post against statements by BB that open source - specifically Moodle - is inherently bad, dangerous and will ruin your institution. Must read!

List of Wave add-ons

Educause 7 things series - on google wave.

The W3C recommendations for improving user experience of the Web on mobile devices. They have been abstracted to allow them to be device and language independent.

List of Google hints

Ideas and opportunities for use of AR apps and tools

Richard Elliott's eLearning blog

"This paper describes the implementation of a quantitative cost effectiveness analyzer for Web-supported academic instruction that was developed in Tel Aviv University during a long term study. The paper presents the cost effectiveness analysis of Tel Aviv University campus. Cost and benefit of 3,453 courses were analyzed, exemplifying campus-wide analysis. These courses represent large-scale Web-supported academic instruction processes throughout the campus. The findings were described, referring to students, instructors and university from both the economical and educational perspectives. The cost effectiveness values resulting from the calculations were summarized in four "coins" (efficiency coins=$; quality coins; affective coins; and knowledge management coins) for each of the three actors (students, instructors and university). In order to examine the distribution of those values throughout the campus assessment scales were created on the basis of descriptive statistics. The described analyzer can be implemented in other institutions very easily and almost automatically. This enables us to quantify the costs and benefits of Web-supported instruction on both the single-course and the campus-wide levels. "

Report on first use of the Kindle by a teacher. Has some useful links at end of article.

Wiki on using Google SketchUp in schools.