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Use of camtasia and a tablet pc to create short videos of the lecturer talking through the worked answers for a maths course, much as they would in class on a blackboard.

Article in the Guardian Education about why students find lectures boring. Unsurprisingly, PowerPoint is mentioned as a factor although reading further it's the usual story of the inappropriate use of PowerPoint rather than the existance of Powerpoint itself. I went to some extremely tedious lectures during my degree...it is possible to bore with a blackboard too! I would be interested in seeing more details of the types of lecture that students actually *like*!

Actually, it's just struck me...we have these awards where students nominate staff. We get a lot of nominations. What is it that students actually *like* about what staff are doing?

David produced a 'tag cloud' of the words used in their nominations.

Bb buys Angel, another HE CMS (about 3rd in market in US after Bb and WebCT - that'll be second then as Bb bought WebCT ).

"you will be assimilated..."

The main interesting thing here is that LSU had a public consultation for deciding on their CMS, thus there is much more information available than normal on how the decision was reached.