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"Twitter Notes to PowerPoint from The Tablet PC Education Blog by noreply@blogger.com (The Tablet PC In Education Blog) NESI teachers find Dave Johnson's suggested ways to use Twitter improves classroom PowerPoint presentations. They use: 1. The add-on PowerPoint Feedback Slides to insert student feedback clouds with a presentation. They configure it, so they can moderate feeds before they post. 2. The real-time PowerPoint Twitter Ticker Bar at the bottom of the slide to display the last 10 tweets that match the PP slide. 3. The PowerPoint Twitter Voting function to student responses to teacher Qs on a PowerPoint slide. Twitter tallies the results and displays them as a bar or pie chart. 4. The PowerPoint Auto Tweet to push PowerPoint notes out to students via Twitter in real time, as teachers flip to each side. Teachers control what goes out by wrapping tweeted notes in twitter tags. Thanks, Dave, for pointing us to these Twitter functions. Kudos, Teachers for adapting them to classrooms. Johnson, D. Display Tweets in PowerPoint, Send PowerPoint Notes to Twitter. Heiny, R. Accelerated K12 Mobile Learning: Press Release (NESI). Posted by The Tablet PC In Education Blog. February 13, 2009, 3:29 PM. (Retrieved January 15, 2009, 3:19 PM.)"

The importance of science blogs

ELLG at use in Harvard

Ellg used for a harvard course

Ramsden, A., 2009. Using micro-blogging (Twitter) in your teaching and learning: An introductory guide. Discussion Paper. University of Bath.

Blog at University of Westminster

This looks really useful, given the popularity of the summer school - might think about which courses would be good to convert to accelerated summer courses for future years.

Really interesting blog posting by an academic about online portfolios specifically for academics. He favours the "roll your own" approach but the post raises lots of interesting questions like who 'owns' your profile and who has control over it.

This is a really good example of a pretty light touch ePortfolio 'system'. It's actually not an ePortfolio system at all!

I think this is a good example of not only a light-touch approach to ePortfolios but also a more enlightened approach to web publishing in general.

Yes - and nice to see their blogs being used - was looking at some PhD students portfolio's. (Warwick gave all students blogs a couple of years ago risky but looks as if it is paying off, nice blot software used). Raises the issue about public access - but I guess we are getting more relaxed about that?

Some video clips about NSSS and evaluation in general

Interesting blog on reading

Maybe interesting to see the results of this study, when it comes out. Msot of it makes intuitive sense (but then I am usually suspicious when that happens ...) I quite liked this exercise: "students are asked to trace the spread of a claim from an academic journal to less prestigious forms of media, like magazines and newspapers, in order to see how arguments are diluted. In another, students are asked to pursue the answer to a research question using only blogs, and to create a map showing how they know if certain information is trustworthy or not."

Conference - Aug 22nd

Using a Livescribe pen, a document camera and Jing (screen recording) to make a 'Mathcast/Pencast'. Could be useful, as it can combine old fashioned 'chalkboard' type work with screencasting/recording technologies.

Article by Stanley Fish which raises some interesting questions about the place of writing in university study, and whether it should be embedded in the disciplines or taught separately. It plays into wider debates about canon-formation. More relevant to the US system but still interesting I thought.