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Here's some posts which have caught my attention this week:

• Live Blogging, Teaching and Learning Events – Andrew Clay, Technology – June 26, 2009
• PodShifter: Speeds Up Podcasts For Faster Listening – June 26, 2009 – Perhaps we should recommend this to subscribers of RSC-MP3 ;-)
• Design space to suit needs – June 25, 2009
• Channel 4 puts TV archive online for free – June 8, 2009
• Launch of ‘The Edgeless University’: a new Demos report – June 24, 2009 – Edgeless University report highlights from Brian Kelly
• Podcast: The Edgeless University – Minister announces new £20m open learning innovation fund – June 24, 2009 – Edgeless University podcast
• Digital lifeline for UK universities – June 24, 2009 – Edgeless University report press release
• GoogleGuide: Learn How To Really Use Google – June 17, 2009
• 5 Free Twitter Tools For Smarter Tweeting – June 19, 2009
• How To Download Streaming Video with DownloadHelper – June 20, 2009
• Re:Subj – Easy Online Group Discussion Tool – June 21, 2009
• Scottish materials for CPD available on iTunes U – June 23, 2009 – Haven’t had a chance for a close look yet, but the ‘Scottish’ material in question has been generated by LTS
• Bridging the gap – book chapter – June 12, 2009

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Here's some posts which have caught my attention this week:

• MEDEV – Call for Mini-Projects (Scotland) – June 23, 2009

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Here's some posts which have caught my attention this week:

• UHI to host international summer school – June 2, 2009

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Welcome to our fifth and final episode of RSC-MP3 for this academic year, the monthly audio podcast highlighting some higher education focused e-learning news, interviews and resources brought to you by Kevin Brace (RSC West Midlands) and Martin Hawksey (RSC Scotland North and East). We redeem ourselves with this last session by paring down our conversation to a slimmer 27 minute edition. As ever we have summarised links to the various topics we discuss and indicate the timestamps so you can jump straight to our insightful repertoire. You can listen to this podcast on your computer, or when “on the move” by adding it to your ipod playlist.

This month Martin interviewed Tomaz Lasic from Belmont City College in Perth, Western Australia. Tomaz is a teacher/ICT integrator at Belmont and discusses his experiences of using Moodle into high school education. In particular Tomaz highlights the importance of involving his students in his journey to find the right blend in technology. Click here for the interview with Tomaz Lasic in full.

Hope you all have enjoyed this podcast series which will resume at the beginning of the next academic year!

HE Update
 
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Duration: 27 minutes
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• Gabber – Kevin’s blog
• MASHe – Martin’s blog

Links from Martin’s subjects: Timestamps represented as [minutes:seconds]

• Evernote – Technologies for Teaching and Learning from Purdue University [1:30]
  • Evernote – electronic note (e-portfolio) platform
• Student Audio Feedback: What, why and how [1:38]
  • Using Google Talk for Audio Feedback [2:04]
  • Podcasting for Pedagogic Purposes SIG [2:27]
  • National student survey results 2009 [3:00]
  • Sounds Good 2 – JISC funded audio feedback project [3:30]
  • BECTa Personalisation agenda [5:20]
  • Gabcast – audio recording service using your phone [6:09]
  • Vocaroo – another online audio recording service [7:16]
  • esnips – free online video hosting service [8:20]
  • Vimeo – free online video hosting service [8:20]
  • Presentation by Andrew Middleton on the pedagogy of audio feedback [9:20]
  • Audacity – audio recording software [10:34]
  • Odeo-  free online service that enables recording and sharing of audio [10:40]

Links from Kevin’s subjects: Timestamps represented as [minutes:seconds]

• latest eportfolio gubbins [11:10]
• DimDim – free Webinar tool [11:40]
  • E-portfolio based learning exploring and exploiting the possibilities for personalising learning- DimDim session by Julie Hughes [12:13]
  • Personalisation of learning
• Rapid e-learning tools [12:50]
  • Wimba Create- e-learning authoring tool (was called CourseGenie) [13:00]
  • Articulate – rapid e-learning object authoring tool [13:25]
  • Promethean – Electronic voting system [14:50]
  • Electronic voting resources complied by the REAP project
  • WordWall – Interactive voting interface software [16:23]
  • Steve Draper’s website on electronic voting and interactive lectures [16:35]
  • Quizdom – Electronic voting system [16:40]
• Sony PSP for learning [17:45]
  • Gaming culture and learning [18:10]
  • Why some teachers don’t love computer (games) – recording from a live presentation by Karl Royle [19:00]
  • Record of the chat transcript from the above presentation by Karl Royle. [19:00]
• Open Source is a Winner! – Annual IMS Global competition results [19:45]
  • What is the IMS e-learning standard? – notes for your perusal  [20:00]
  • RSC-Scotland N&E AccessApps tools IMS Global winners – packaged suites of Open Source applications free for all [20:15]
  • MR CUTE -  IMS global winners. Moodle plugin to create a simple object repository [21:20]
  • Scottish GLOW project- IMS global winners for their intranet project [21:30]
  • What is an object repository? – Recording from a live presentation by Mahendra Mahay [21:55]

This month I interviewed Tomaz Lasic, from Belmont City College in Perth, Western Australia. I first found out about Tomaz’s work last September when I was shown a series of demonstration videos (2 Minute Moodles) used to promote Moodle at Belmont (if you haven’t seen these before you should definitely check them out). In this interview we discuss how Tomaz has gone about integrating Moodle in his own class, which has been used as a model for wider adoption across the College. We  also touch upon some wider issues of student digital literacy, online security and personalisation of learning. [During the interview I refer to one of Tomaz’s recent blog posts ‘Best when human’]

Interview with Tomaz Lasic
 
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Tomaz’s – Human blog
Belmont City College

Summary

00:15 Tomaz outlines his role at Belmont City College – teacher, moodle admin, ict mentor
01:12 Tomaz explains how he has got staff to engage with moodle – using earlier adopters
01:52 Moodle part of a grander scheme to increase use of technology within the college
03:01 Tomaz used a pilot using feedback from his students to find a grounding
03:39 To use moodle really well you only need to understand 5%
04:12 Students didn’t help with the techical side. One of the most useful pieces of feedback from the students was to use moodle appropriately finding the right blend
06:00 Can’t assume students have the digital literacy – they have the breadth of technical skills but not the depth of knowledge
06:35 It’s the job of the teacher to turn the lifeless digital information into knowledge
06:57 Moodle was the spur and is allowing Tomaz to integrate more ‘web 2.0′
08:01 Types of moodle use. 4/5 teachers are using very well. Tomaz recognises it is a gradual process. He is keen that his colleagues are the one who explain the potential benefits of using tools like moodle
10:51 Tomaz finds students are very good at exploring how to use technology but are more naive when it comes to online security, digital footprint
12:55 Integrating these issues into teaching
14:46 The issues of a very well defined curriculum and personalisation
17:21 Expectation of students in what they want to study and learn – still a tough nut to crack
19:27 We don’t know the destination of where we are going with technology but we have a direction

Here's some posts which have caught my attention this week:

• Web 2.0 – do we need guidelines or policies telling us how to use ‘it’? – June 1, 2009 – I’ve dipped into the resources put together by RSC Wales on Web 2.0 policies and guidelines and they look very good
• Google Wave Widgets: Implementation using W3C Widgets and Wookie Server – June 1, 2009 – Something else on Google Wave for the techies interested in APIs and the such like
• Google Wave, HTML 5 and Browser Policies – June 1, 2009 – More on Google Wave – looks like one to watch for education sector
• Web Annotation For Students or Professionals From WebNotes (+100 Invites) – May 30, 2009
• Google Waves goodbye to communication divide – May 29, 2009
• Good APIs Reports in JISC Information Environment Repository – May 29, 2009
• How will Windows 7 help universities – Part One – The Overview – May 27, 2009
• UpDown Online Stock Market Trading Simulator Lets You Play Without Losing Money – May 26, 2009
• Effective Practice in a Digital Age – May 27, 2009
• Reflections on Use of Twitter at the #CILIP-CYMRU09 Conference – May 26, 2009

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