Archive for May, 2007

wikis

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

Like most things in learning technologies, when you finally try it, the light comes on!  I got podcasting going recently and now I’ve started a wiki. (Watch out Twitter and 2nd Life).

I’d crashed and burned when trying to use one for a classroom learning activity so I’ve hesitated, but for my own development [...]

Working in Music - Henry Priestman - Songwriting

Monday, May 28th, 2007

This podcast is a discussion on song writing with Henry Priestman (formerly of the Christians and now a producer and composer).  Henry discusses his experiences and methods of creating music.
Podcast 3.

17 minutes - recorded via Skype 27th May 2007

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eportfolios

Friday, May 25th, 2007

I’m getting to the end of the academic year and I want all my students to take their work with them!  Currently, most of it resides in Moodle (text, audio and video), but I’m going to show them how to port it to an open access blog.  I’ve played around with some blogs and I [...]

Technology for assessment

Sunday, May 6th, 2007

I follow a few blogs.  Education with Technology is sometimes a bit heavy-weight for me but I enjoy reading it and it helps me focus on my own ‘what-why-how’ questions when I’m evaluating elearning.  I replied to a post about the value of e-assessments which rasied a question that always lingers with me - can [...]

working in music podcast 2

Saturday, May 5th, 2007

At the CCM music convention 07 I interviewed several of the speakers for podcast 1.  Here, 2 speakers I didn’t manage to catch talk about their jobs on the panel, prior to the Q & A session.
The 1st is Karen McBride - photographer.
The 2nd is Vuz from vman events - promoter.

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