Category: Learning Technologies
Creston Touch Screen designs
| June 25, 2010 | Posted by admin under Learning Technologies |
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Guildford College is building a “learning-enhanced” classroom with improved equipment, enhanced IT support and the ability to record lectures/slides in real-time and post them automatically to iTunes U for viewing. This is part of our ongoing effort to improve the classroom experience for both teachers and students. You can follow the classroom build and see…
Blogging from iPhone Training Course
| May 30, 2010 | Posted by admin under Learning Technologies |
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Hugh will be attending 4 days of iPhone Application training from 1st June – 4th June. Here’s the Course Outline. Send me any questions you want asked and I’ll try and get the trainer to answer and then post them up. The training is one to one so will be quite hard going and as…
Pecha Kucha presentations and Web Services Presentation from EdTech 2010
| May 26, 2010 | Posted by admin under Conferences, Learning Technologies |
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Pecha Kucha presentations from EdTech 2010 are reprinted here for your pleasure.
Blogging/video from EdTech 2010
| May 20, 2010 | Posted by Brian Lake under Conferences, Learning Technologies |
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Hello from Edtech 2010. First things first: You can watch the keynotes live:
Contensis R6 is coming
| May 7, 2010 | Posted by admin under Learning Technologies, Web Services Blog, website |
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A new version of our website content management software is coming soon. Here’s some of the feature highlilghts: Multimedia controls R6 brings in our new suite of controls for slideshows, streaming media and image galleries. Just point the Folder Images control at a folder and it auto-populates a slideshow on the page. JW Player is…
Student Parliament meeting – feedback invited
| April 22, 2010 | Posted by Brian Lake under Learning Technologies, Web Services Blog |
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I attended the student Parliament today on behalf of Web Services. We had an interesting conversation about where Guildford Online – our portal and learning environments – are going . Some of the highlights: A new GO! upgraded environment will be available in May for trials, and launched for the new school year. This will…
Moodlemoot 2010 Videos now online
| April 21, 2010 | Posted by Brian Lake under Conferences, Learning Technologies |
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Videos from Moodlemoot 2010 are now available on the conference web site: http://moodlemootuk2010.org.uk/videos/ We especially suggest you look at the following talk: Professor Sugata Mitra, Newcastle University delivers an inspiring talk about his ‘Hole in the Wall’ project. The Moodlemoot organisers will be adding more videos, so keep en eye out for new ones as…
Blogging from MoodleMoot 2010: Day 2
| April 14, 2010 | Posted by Brian Lake under Conferences, Learning Technologies |
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Hi Everyone, Brian here. It’s day two of the moodlemoot conference. Its been a great experience so far – met a lot of really interesting people and learning a lot about where Moodle is going and how its use can be improved. This will have a big impact on our own Moodle implementation, and its…
WP Touch WordPress Plugin
| April 11, 2010 | Posted by admin under Learning Technologies |
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Here’s some more information on WPtouch. (http://www.bravenewcode.com/products/wptouch) WPtouchTM is a plugin for WordPress blogs. Modelled after Apple’s app store design specs, WPtouch loads lightning fast and shows content beautifully, without interfering with the default site theme. WPtouch automatically transforms the blog into a web-application experience when viewed from an iPhoneTM, iPod touchTM, AndroidTM, or BlackBerry…
Deploying phones in a learning environment- some thoughts
| March 24, 2010 | Posted by Brian Lake under Gadgets, Learning Technologies |
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I’ve been asked by a colleague how they might best configure 20-30 mobile phones for use in a teaching programme. This is an interesting mix of a Learning/Teaching problem mixed in with a technical task. You want the student to have a consistent experience, and you don’t want to set up 20 phones individually. The…
