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Nigel Robertson

Mayday, mayday - Bebo NZ is going down | The National Business Review - New Zealand - b... - 0 views

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    Bebo is bombing in NZ while Facebook use is going up, up, up.
Stephen Harlow

A Lifeline for Those Teaching Large Classes | Faculty Focus - 0 views

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    "Unfortunately, class sizes are increasing almost everywhere, and that means the number of faculty struggling with the challenges of large courses is growing, too... Let me highlight several good resources."
Stephen Harlow

Giving Students More Effective Feedback | Faculty Focus - 0 views

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    "Do you pass back exams, a set of papers or grades on some other student project and offer generic comments on what the class did and didn't do well on the assignment?"
Nigel Robertson

Agile eLearning - 1 views

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    Tony Karrer has put together a collection of resource links related to agile development generally and agile elearning. Wonder if some of this can tie into the digital literacy strand?
Stephen Harlow

What Students Want: Characteristics of Effective Teachers from the Students' Perspectiv... - 0 views

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    "The same top nine characteristics are common between online and face-to-face students, with only the order for the two bolded characteristics changing. Responsiveness is more highly valued online, moving five positions."
Stephen Harlow

How to Enhance Online Student Engagement and Satisfaction | Faculty Focus - 0 views

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    "Adding audio instructions or commentary helps you meet the needs of auditory learners, and often adds interest to the content. Schiefelbein said she often creates an audio recording of housekeeping tasks, such as deadline reminders, as well as to review what was covered the previous session. She also uses the Wimba Voice Board to create an audio-based discussion board which students use to discuss topics and reply to posts."
Stephen Harlow

Game developer David Braben creates a USB stick PC for $25 - Video Games Reviews, Cheat... - 0 views

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    "Braben has developed a tiny USB stick PC that has a HDMI port in one end and a USB port on the other. You plug it into a HDMI socket and then connect a keyboard via the USB port giving you a fully functioning machine running a version of Linux. The cost? $25."
Stephen Harlow

Technology-Enhanced Classroom Assessment Techniques | Faculty Focus - 0 views

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    "Presented here are several original CATs [classroom assessment technique] proposed by Angelo and Cross with their technology-enhanced suggestions for use in online classrooms"
Nigel Robertson

Little Green Footballs - "It's Yom Kippur. Banks should atone." -- The Truth Behind the... - 0 views

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    More back story stuff for digital literacy. Young Jewish girl accused of anti-Semitism when in fact following Jewish tradition. Framing of stories (in this case by right wing bloggers but could be by others) can affect our perception of online (and any) information. 
Stephen Harlow

Grading Practices: Liabilities of the Points System - Faculty Focus | Faculty Focus - 1 views

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    "One of these dead ideas is that grading motivates learning. Pike contends that grading motivates getting grades."
Tracey Morgan

New Digital Tools Let Professors Tailor Their Own Textbooks - Technology - The Chronicl... - 0 views

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    Rob Torrens is using McGraw-Hill's Create service to customise his ENGG180 textbook.
Stephen Harlow

Google+ Hangouts: Six Practical Uses for Online Education by Jeremy Vest : Learning Sol... - 1 views

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    Now that Google+ with Google apps has been released it's time to think about the possibilities... some good starting points here.
Nigel Robertson

German Court Says Creative Commons 'Non-Commercial' Licenses Must Be Purely For Persona... - 0 views

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    Interesting.
Nigel Robertson

The Web Index - 0 views

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    The Web Index - how are we all doing for net neutrality, empowerment, gender, and privacy.
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