centreforelearning

competency learning is the key for student demonstrate what they can do. Traditional assessment only measure what they learn which is not enough.

Despite the slightly hyperbolic title, it's quite thoughtfully written actually. Some interesting case studies and reflections on how to use mobile learning in practical fieldwork, including some comments from teachers and students. A good read.

Excellent resource written by excellent people!

This seems to be the granddaddy of mVideo and mAPT. But for now, from what I can see, it still works on a post-processing scale - i.e. record, and THEN annotate, not allowing you to add comments or tags in real-time. (Yet.) But it seems like a very good source of revenue, offering educational licenses, etc.

If you or anyone like to try out the apps, ETs have bought this app. It's from Ashley's Christmas gift card.

A research paper on how low-tech SMS can be highly effective for certain learning tasks such as teaching social English. And now, there's Whatsapp and other social-messaging platforms that can be an intermediate level between simple text messages that work on any basic phone, to sophisticated native apps that must be programmed for a specific operating system. "As SMS is technologically and functionally very simple, it can be considered to be a relatively primitive  technology. However, viewing it from another angle, we see that SMS ranks very highly in terms of user  convenience. Successful uptake of mobile learning strategy is more likely in the situation when "learning activities can integrate into our lives in an unobtrusive fashion". SMS can deliver information in this unobtrusive fashion more readily than other strategies. SMS, thus, can be regarded as a practical and realistic mLearning technology for use in natural settings at present."

A concise yet comprehensive intro and guide to microlectures.

An entertaining and readable article on how to not only use e-learning in the classroom, but also how educators can help get parents involved in e-learning too.

This is of web tools might be of interest to the IDs and ETs. For other CeLebs, you may want to expore some of them too.

Great for translating thesis abstracts into a second language. The Acad staff might be interested in this.

good for posting on facebook by video team?

Useful look at some Facebook strategies of a few tech companies. Microsoft Xbox's strategy sounds more like ours.

Useful resource on leveraging on FB! Here is what I learnt from these companies use of FB: From Amazon: Converse with your audience From Dell: Provide useful how-tos From Samsung: Show specific uses of edtech From MS XBox: Provide teasers, trailers, previews, updates From YouTube: Share viral videos

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Thanks, Benji.