2006-04

Horizon Report

link to pdf Social computing, personal broadcasting, mobile phone use, educational gaming, augmented reality and enhanced visualisation are the six emerging trends identified as likely to have a significant impact in higher education. This annual research…

Finding and Using Digital Images

link to website Found through SCOTFEICT is this website about Finding and Using Digital Images. It is fairly detailed in parts (eg when talking about digitisation projects and creating image banks at the organisational level), and could also work as a…

7 Things you should know about Screencasting

link to pdf From Educause “A screencast is a screen capture of the actions on a user’s computer screen, typically with accompanying audio, distributed through RSS. In the same way that a screenshot is a static representation of a computer screen at a point…

Case studies in VET

link to word document From the Consortium Research Program comes this series of 15 case studies of good practice in VET from John Mitchell, Clive Chappell, Andrea Bateman and Susan Roy. These could be used as excellent discussion starters with VET…

Odeo: Record and Share Audio

link to website Hadn’t blogged this before. The short online audio editor could be a handy tool for working with teachers. “You can subscribe to podcasts, tag ‘em, but more– you can record directly into a Flash tool a short audio (3 minutes), and you can…