by Cameron Nichol | Aug 25, 2010 | Best Bang for the Buck, Cool Tools for Teaching, Teaching and Learning
I’m starting a new occasional theme on the blog focusing on simple and viable ways to improve our teaching outcomes. The Best Bang for the Buck. It’s easy to moan about the perceived underlying faults of the system and come up with grand solutions...
by Cameron Nichol | Jul 9, 2010 | Cool Tools for Teaching
Name(required) Email(required) Website Message Submit Δ I’m having a play with QR codes. As far as I can tell they’re mainly used for treasure hunts and sending messages to the Geekoraty. Scan it and let me...
by Cameron Nichol | May 10, 2010 | Cool Tools for Teaching
Will Android based tablets kill off the IPAD? Or will tablets all die off because no one can find a good use for them? I don’t know, but I expect Android Tablets to be competitive. There main disadvantage is also their main advantage – they’re not...
by Cameron Nichol | Apr 23, 2010 | Cool Tools for Teaching
Let me start be saying I’m talking about the workplace (not the leisure/lifestyle market) and my approach to software is generally to find the best free or open source solution as these are easier implement with academics. Recently my HP IPAQ died and I picked...
by Cameron Nichol | Mar 31, 2010 | Cool Tools for Teaching, Teaching and Learning
Here is a great example of clever, problem based, instructional design. It’s a series of short online “whodunnit” games that teach safe use of social network sites. The problems based around a story. The content is located in a series of dummy sites...
by Cameron Nichol | Oct 19, 2009 | Cool Tools for Teaching
This smartpen records audio and has a camera that captures images of the page, oh and it also comes with ink for writing (how old school) Livescribe Pulse smartpen
