by Cameron Nichol | Nov 27, 2012 | Cool Tools for Teaching, Ed Tech use
Forget the previous posts on linking lecture theatres, Google Hangout is the new winner. We shifted to ‘Google’ a couple years ago so all our staff and students have access to Gmail, Docs, Drive, Sites and Calendar . We now have Google+ available as an...
by Cameron Nichol | Nov 21, 2012 | Ed Tech use
I recently did a presentation on Blended Learning. It was recorded on a Canon HD camcorder which outputs .mts files. I wanted to edit it on an old version of Premier Pro (2.0) but unfortunately Premier Pro doesn’t recognise MTS files, and my goto program,...
by Cameron Nichol | Nov 14, 2012 | Ed Tech use, Teaching and Learning
I have said it before Cours/dacity xMOOCs are businesses who have large debts to repay, they are not social reformers. There are a few other players such as Edx/Classto Go, CanvasNet and other who have a different model and are worth looking at. But surely, if we are...
by Cameron Nichol | Nov 7, 2012 | Ed Tech use
Here’s a snippet from Mike Caulfield’s blog about a major university’s attempt to convert a traditional lecture into a MOOC. Coursera, CC-NC, and OCW “As far as I can tell, there’s not much in this course so far that wasn’t in the original OCW...
