I’ll admit it: I did not know who Dónal FitzPatrick was when I decided to attend his session. I had read the title: “I Have a Blind Student in My Maths/Science Class, Should I panic? How to promote inclusion for blind students” and found that interesting enough to attend. So when he said that he wasn’t going to use slides during […]
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It was a shame that only a small number of people had managed to find their way to the The Bragg Cluster for the session titled “Standards-based Assessment – Creating Innovative, Interesting, Interoperable Resources Using QTIv2.1” by Sue Milne, Niall Barr and Graham Smith. It may have been the great number of steps that you have to climb to get to […]
Dragos Ciobanu, Neil Morris and Alina Secara showed how at the University of Leeds, they are experimenting with Adobe Connect Pro. Here too, they luckily choose to just demonstrate instead of explain in words only. We had received the URL for their Adobe Connect room so anyone with a laptop, iPad, iPhone, Android device could participate during the session. Alina Secara […]
Simon Booth from the University of Stirling and Colin Dalziel from Pebble Learning gave an overview of the use of LTI as part of the ceLTIc project. LTI stands for Learning Tool Interoperability and is a mechanism with which it should be easier to connect different systems. For example, you have Moodle as your VLE and want to use PeddelPad. Through […]
In his presentation titled “The Distributed, Web 2.0 VLE? Incorporating External Content Platforms into the Institutional VLE”, Ian Glover from the City University London talked about the advantages/disadvantages of using external tools in combination with the institutional VLE and the work they are doing to help staff use these external tools. Advantages of using these tools are there are many good […]
I’ve uploaded the presentation of my session to the CrowdVine system used during the conference, but that part can only be access when logged in to the system. So I also uploaded the presentation to Slideshare where it is available to anyone.
The “Best Performance of the First Day of ALT-C 2011d”-award goes without a doubt to Dale Porter from the University of Exeter. Although I’ve seen (and used) plenty of examples of Augmented Reality both using markers and without markers (for example using Layar), I really liked the way he presented the example. He used one of the participants to perform a […]
John Davies and Clare Hardman from the Teaching and Learning Development Unit of the University of Sussex did an interesting session about their Me2U project. They use the Echo360 Personal Capture system with which teachers can create (small) recordings on their laptops. It works similar to what I would do with Camtasia Studio, but without the more advanced options. However, this […]
Day one of the ALT-C 2011 started with a keynote by Miguel Brechner. He talked about the educational and social impacts of Plan Ceibal, the One Laptop Per Child project in which more than 450,000 computers have been deployed to every pupil in state education from the 1st year of primary to the 3rd year of secondary school. 99% of these […]
Ik ben er nog niet helemaal uit of dit nou een goed ding of een slecht ding is. Maar ik vind het in ieder geval inventief. Chegg, een op het onderwijs gerichte boekenverkoper in de VS heeft namelijk iets slims bedacht. Als je via de site een boek op papier besteld (want ja, dat doen veel mensen nog), dan kun je […]