This page has links through to various pages, web sites, articles and frameworks that may be of use in the switch to online. Resources The Online Instructional Activities page has a list of online activities that could be a source of ideas We are aiming to use activities to promote social presence; so many of these activities could be adapted… Read More Switching to online and mixed mode
These materials serve as a general introduction to Twitter. They attempt to introduce the idea of a professional network of connections, along with the notion of professional online identity. These slides use a retail context (one of the activities used this context as they were originally used on a marketing course). There are Word files… Read More Creating a Personal Learning Network with Twitter – Retail context
There are notes available from apple on the best settings to use (on the mac version of Keynote) if the slides are going to be presented via an iPad – http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4114 The general support pages for Keynote for iPad are here The new iPads use the lightning connector, which can be connected to HDMI with… Read More Best practices for creating an iPad presentation
As iGoogle is being retired, the materials have been changed to use Netvibes (http://www.netvibes.com). In some ways the Netvibes page does seem offer more features (it certainly has more AJAX features for adding and sharing feeds than the old iGoogle offering). These handouts use an IT context so feeds demonstrated come from arstechnica, slashdot etc.… Read More Creating a personalised Netvibes page with RSS feeds – IT context
These materials serve as a general introduction to Twitter. These slides use an IT context (one of the activities use this context).They attempt to introduce the idea of a professional network of connections, along with the notion of professional online identity. There are Word files –Twitter and PLN – IT or a PDF Twitter and… Read More PLN Creating a Personal Learning Network with Twitter – IT context
These slides are used with the personal learning network activities – there are keynote (mac) and powerpoint slides (PC) Zip file (contains both) microblogging The text is under a creative commons license, but some of the images are screenshots from twitter and non-academic licensing may be unclear, so replace the images if using them in… Read More PLN and Twitter slides
These handouts (PDF version) are used for a session on bookmarking and use the Delicious service. It was recently announced that Yahoo will be attempting to sell delicious (rather than close it down which was the speculation at one point) – this has encouraged several other services to appear and become popular. I’ve stuck with… Read More Bookmark management, tags and Folksonomies
Every iPad we gave to the students has the ability to run a touch optimised version of Apples presentation software Keynote. Despite this, every student immediately defaulted back to using PowerPoint for presenting. After discussing this with the students, the following issues came to light The students were so nervous about presenting that adding another… Read More Keynote vs Powerpoint
This material (PDF) is used with students as the next part of their introduction to the concept of a Personal Learning Environment (PLE). It describes journal article management and includes setting up an RSS feed for current issues of journals using Google Scholar to create customised alerts the use of reference/article management software such as… Read More Managing journal articles
This material is used with students as part of their introduction to the concept of a Personal Learning Environment (PLE). It describes setting up and using various RSS feeds in a customised iGoogle homepage (PDF). The resources (Word, PDF and image files) are available for download and reuse.