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
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
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
We have been fortunate to be able to loan iPads to each of the students in the retail management group. After some discussion with Apple and looking at other institutions the following models seem to have emerged: The institution owns it, puts apps and content on it, locks it down so no other changes can… Read More Models of iPad set up
The initial software platform introduced to the students will be the web service Ning. Kingston University (like most institutions) has a Learning Management System (Blackboard), which is organised by distinct classes (modules). For this project the decision was taken to use a social based platform – Social Networks are familiar to almost all the students… Read More Social network vs LMS