A very “now” question is, what can Blackboard course instructors do to enhance the potential of mobile learners within their courses? This can be addressed through various approaches one of which is usability. However, it does involve the

How can we enhance institutional “virtual” learning spaces for the mobile learner? If we assume that the Blackboard Learning Environment is part of the virtual learning space, then how can a course instructor design their course to be mor

There are a number of emerging issues in the world of educational podcasts. One of which is an increasing critical evaluation of what podcasting actually offers as a learning technology. However, many of the studies have been small scale pilots and m

An anxiety for many lecturers when they first discuss the idea of podcasting their lectures is that their students will stop attending. At the moment there seems to be little research in this area, however, what research there is suggests that attend

An alternative title would have been using a prs (evs) confidence question to stimulate group discussion :-) I recently ran a workshop on "An Intro to Blackboard" where the participants had to work collaboratively to complete a number of

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The aim of these activities is to re-work a learning activity that currently includes a podcast within it. The design is based on the following underlying principles; When and where appropriate the learning activity should be based on active learnin

I was reading with interest the BBC article based on Dr Bill Ashraf, who is podcasting lectures for uni students http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/5013194.stm It is where a lecturer replaces lectures with podcasts and more small(er)

Thanks to Matt Lingard for the pointer. The Higher Ed Blog Conference (http://www.higheredblogcon.com/) is focussing on new tools in teaching and learning, in particular, the use of blogs, podcasts, and wikis.<o:p></o:p>I’ve just di

iPod-Learning (2004) - http://www.epic.co.uk/content/resources/white_papers/iPod.htmThis document is a little dated but is still a worthwhile scan given it has a good overview of the psychological reasons why listening is a very powerful learning mod

A question I'm often asked is podcasting, why oh why oh why.Well, some of the issues are tackled in Social Science Week - Voices (http://www.sosig.ac.uk/voices/)Each day during Social Science week from - Monday March 13th to Friday March 17th - SOSIG

The following are a couple of things I looked at recently that have made me think. I've just been looking at www.chinesePod.com – Learn Mandarin Anytime, Anywhere with Daily Podcasts (to be honest they emailed me … I have enough problems

Many people are familiar with Gilly Salmon’s five step model which has been used to effectively develop an online community through discussion boards – see http://www.atimod.com/e-moderating/5stage.shtmlStep 2 focuses on online socialisat

Click here for the powerpoint file that illustrates the Framework to assess educational podcasts – instructor actively involvedThis is the first version of a framework for comparing and analysising the type of educational podcast. I think it is

An odd question you might say, especially given my credentials as an enthusiast for podcasting. However, I’ve spent the last few days on the road at a CETIS meeting in Birmingham, and a Higher Education Academy event in Wolverhampton. At both event

After spending a little time searching the web for examples of using audio in teaching and I must say drawing a very unsatisfying blank. I’ve been thinking a little more about the idea of podcasting as opposed to simply uploading an audio file and

The more I listen to educational podcasts the more I'm tending to question the objectives. For instance, most focus on a didactic style, lots of information, but I, the listener, feels peripheral to the whole experience. This style of presentation is

The following link is concerned with Podcast Quicky: Microcasting Alliance Creating Collaborative Podcasts - http://www.podcastingnews.com/archives/2005/07/podcast_quicky_6.htmlI’m thinking that this offers a great potential in terms of both learni

It reads as a straightforward question, however, it’s not a straightforward answer. Some of the issues stem around what is interactivity? And what is the time frame for the interactivity within your next podcast?Before I start discussing these I th

With help from Martin Van Eker & Bhagesh Sandacia (both at the University of Bristol) I ran some initial tests of developing a Bluetooth network hocking up 2 laptops, an interactive whiteboard and three PDAs (2 Dell Axim 30’s, and a Dell Axim 5

As I continue to investigate podcasting and it's potential - this investigation involves listening to lots of podcasting ;-) four things strike me;there is a significant disparity within the quality and aims of podcasts,mobility is the key to podcast

Context - this is rough, rough, rough, I very it as the first iterative steps to developing a coherent argument to support reserach within this area. It builds on some ideas I discussed in a previous blog - http://www.mobile-learning.blog-city.com/re

Well, finally some of my work overlaps :-) Imagine the following,Your class is divided into 4 groups of 3 students (you’ll need to assume that you’ve only got 12 in the class), they’ve been set and activity that involves collecting photo’s on

It appears that podcasting is gaining momentum and publicity - which is wonderful, I've refered to podcasting on a few occassions within this blog, while "white papers" - what is podcasting and videoblogging for in HE <http://edmarketing

A colleague asked about using a palm pilot for keeping records of evaluation interviews. The records needed to be secure from prying eyes, they would then be uploaded to the computer from final processing. This was viewed as superior to the current m