EET Learns

BCampus is moving forward with open textbooks. This means FREE textbook for students!!!

These skills and competencies for digital curators include seven areas: 1) Communication and interpersonal competency: This competency is required for clear and effective communication with a variety of audiences, including users, creators, managers, researchers and collaborators. 2) Curating and preserving content competency: This competency is required to understand and carry out a range of activities as defined in the digital curation lifecycle model, including the creation, acquisition, management, representation, access, organization, transformation and preservation of digital content. 3) Curation technologies competency: This competency is required to identify, use, and develop tools and applications to support digital curation activities. The context of this competency is the information technology infrastructure, including the tools and applications deployed to support digital curation. 4) Environmental scanning competency: This competency is required to identify and use resources to stay current and on the leading edge regarding trends, technologies and practices that affect professional work and capabilities within the field of digital curation. 5) Management, planning and evaluation competency: This competency is required for planning, coordinating, implementing, and assessing programs, projects and services related to digital curation. 6) Services competency: This competency is required to identify, understand and build services to respond to a community's and/or institution's digital curation needs. 7) Systems, models and modeling competency: This competency is required for high-level, abstract thinking about and critical analysis of complex systems, workflows and conceptual models related to digital curation.                                                                      Robin Good

white paper that describes best practices in detail

A tool to test accessibility of your web page in Firefox

How to make accessible drop down menus

A way to test for colour contrast on your web page

search engine with the specific purpose of bringing results tailored ot education and learning objects. Watch the 40 sec video on the site for more info.

Guidelines for Good Assessment Practice from the University of Tasmania.

Guidelines for Good Assessment

easily start a video chat, audio chat and screensharing all without signup or login. Tested with 3 people and worked great. really low barrier solution for students.

This week's UBC podcast includes a discussion about the pros and cons of mobiles phones in schools.  As well a link to the Ericsson Mobility Report

"That Third Kind Of Vet"

A blog post with helpful tips on publishing an open textbook. Written for BCampus and their open textbook initiative, but most steps relate to publishing in general

Weebly for nursing PD day

The Global Index of Cognitive Skills and Educational Attainment compares the performance of 39 countries and one region (Hong Kong) on two categories of education: Cognitive Skills and Educational Attainment. The Index provides a snapshot of the relative performance of countries based on their education outputs."