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- NineHubJune 20
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I’ve just discovered NineHub which aims to provide access to a fully functioning version of Moodle with no download or installation. At first glance it looks to be doing the same for the VLE platform as Ning did for a social networking platform.
From the NineHub website:
The powerful and simplest way to create online class. NineHub.com features popular Moodle web-based Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) that lets you start focus on your class activities & contents - without any software download and installation. You just need to create a Moodle account below and start teaching in your online class. NineHub.com helps instructors to build and manage learning content and provide an engaging environment for students. Quizzes, tests and assignments are easy to create and deploy, and a variety of tools for evaluating performance contribute to instructor efficiency while providing timely feedback and reporting for students.
- PGCert Discussion SessionJune 20
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Over the past 3 weeks I’ve been running a module for early career lecturers at the RSAMD studying for a Post Graduate Certificate. The module was titled ‘Designing Online Learning Activities’ and was set up to introduce them some web-based technologies that could be useful in their own teaching: Twitter, Flickr, Animoto, Slideshare, Del.icio.us, YouTube etc.
The module was structured with exercises running throughout the 3 weeks, where instructions and support delivered virtually, and culminating in a face to face discussion session last night.
Given the ‘throw them in at the deep end’ nature of the exercises I felt it necessary to start our discussion session with a presentation that would, hopefully, provide some background and context. I’ve embedded the presentation slides, below which are also available on Slideshare. Keynote on OS X for the presentation so had to export to PDF before uploading to Slideshare. As a result, all transitions and effects were removed.
| View | - GINAJune 11
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He’s had his detractors over radical design ideas and specifically ‘flame surfacing’ on recent BMWs, but I honestly believe Chris Bangle, director of design at the Bavarian motoring giants, is a genius.
Have a look at this video which is simply one of the most beautiful and innovative things I’ve seen in a while.
Tags: Chris Bangle, BMW, GINA, design - Why The World-Wide Talk Show Doesn’t Need A HostJune 4
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Robert Scoble recently spoke at Mediabistro Circus in New York where he talked about the “World-Wide talk Show” which, according to Robert, is the never ending stream of messages, comments and discussions that take place on the internet, 24 hours a day. It’s a neat idea and does much to sum up the fact that geography is now no longer a barrier to conversation and that at any given time there is always a discussion going on that may interest you - some may argue that, like Henry Ford’s ‘you can have any colour as long as it’s black’, you can have any conversation you like as long as it’s about the internet!
All well and good, you may say, that technology can be utilised to strengthen or create social bonds in an asynchronous, always-on fashion . And indeed it is. My worry is that in coining the phrase Robert, and a few others like him, are seeking to directly relate the internet model of a ‘talk show’ to it’s, arguably, poorer cathode ray, old media cousin in that all talk shows need a host.
Robert, as anyone who is aware of his considerable online presence will attest to, is a “noise junkie” and a journalist who reports for Fast Company TV on developments in technology. Robert follows 23 thousand people on Twitter, c 12 thousand on FriendFeed and loves
- UK Universities on iTunesUJune 4
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I couldn’t help but feel more than a tad aggrieved yesterday as it was announced that University College London, the Open University and Trinity College Dublin are putting content onto iTunes through the iTunesU section (U standing, of course, for University). The news comes as they are the first universities in the EU to do so.
The announcement has been covered in The Guardian, The Times, the BBC and, as a Google search will show, numerous other websites including coverage in Apple and tech related sectors. My own personal, online network contains a few people who work for the OU and this ws awash yesterday morning with comments on this news.
So why could I possibly feel anything but happy at this news, which is a another great step forward in the provision of OERs? Well, firstly I should say that from this perspective I am delighted and wish everyone at the afore-mentioned universities the best of luck with their content on iTunes. My own personal feelings come as I look back to almost 2 years ago