My suggestions for a shift away from formal essay writing, towards blogs and wikis got a mixed reception at our team planning day. Worse, some of the old Blackboard courses have been ported across to moodle and they look pretty dire. (Did they ever look good in Blackboard?) I feel I am better off starting [...]
This is for student laptops, though based on the tools I have found so empowering.
Macbook (the artist formerly known as an iBook) with the usual stuff including the full iLife suite.
Apple Care
.mac account
QuickTime Pro licence
Snapz Pro
MS Word
iSight camera (unless it’s built in)
Firefox for the browser
And here’s an impressive argument from Gary Stager - a whole [...]
I have to start with the question we finished on - how do I (we) instill a need in my colleagues to make the effort with e-learning?
I had a really useful session with some great people but as I walked into the venue 2 things struck me - such a big space for so few [...]
A post on the Apple Digital Campus Exchange hits the nail on the head for me - it links to another blog about when a blog is not a blog by Cole Camplese. I’ve been put off blogging for so long as my perception is that it should be a diary. What is more important [...]
I don’t take everything Apple says at face value but they do have an impressive vision when it comes to both learning and digital technologies. Latest angle is convergence . No longer are creatives specialising in one field but the boundaries are blurred. All the more reason to give young musicians all the tools to [...]
