m-Leaning, enabling accessibility

Back in April I delivered the morning keynote at the RSC Eastern Mobile Learning Event, Dave Foord provided the closing keynote. I have finally managed to find the time to edit, encode and upload the video to the blog.

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e-Learning Stuff Podcast #026: We’re waiting for a train…

David, Lilian and Dave discuss what they did at the Gloucestershire College Staff Development Day whilst waiting for a train at Gloucester Station.

This is the twenty-sixth e-Learning Stuff Podcast, We’re waiting for a train…

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With Dave Foord, David Sugden, Lilian Soon and the introduction by James Clay.

Shownotes

• Gloucestershire College.
• Turnitin, is a plagarisim detection online service.
• Etherpad is a collaborative online note taking site.

Photo sources, Gloucester Station and Gloucestershire College.

e-Learning Stuff Podcast #021: Goldilocks, what’s that all about then?

So what do you understand by inclusion? Can we use learning technologies to improve inclusivity?

We discuss the ILT Champions Conference at Gloucestershire College, including the unconference format used and the learning spaces seen at the college. Do we need big names at conferences? Do we need keynotes? How do we make conferences financially viable?

We move onto planning. Do you plan your lessons a week, a month or a year in advance? Is planning a good thing or does it hinder creativity?

This is the twenty-first e-Learning Stuff Podcast, Goldilocks, what’s that all about then?

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James is joined by Dave Foord, David Sugden and Nick Jeans.

Shownotes

• The ILT Champions Conference took place on the 21st April at Gloucestershire College.
• What is an unconference?
• The Ofsted report on VLEs.
• James’ keynote at the RSC Eastern Mobile Learning Event.
• James will be presenting a keynote at ASCILITE 2009 in Auckland, New Zealand.
• Ewan McIntosh was at the JISC Conference.
• James’ blog post on Twittering at conferences.

e-Learning Stuff Podcast #012: It’s Snow Joke

Recorded during the height of the snow at the beginning of February 2009 the panel discuss the role that learning technologies and communication tools can have in supporting colleges and schools that get closed because of the snow.

This is the twelfth e-Learning Stuff Podcast, It’s Snow Joke.

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James is joined by Di Dawson, Lisa Valentine, David Sugden, Dave Foord and is joined later by John Whalley.

Shownotes

• The view from Di’s office.
• Ping.fm which can be used to send the same message to various micro-blogging and picture services.
• Spinvox a service which converts audio into text. Allows you to phone into your blog, convert voicemail to SMS, and much more.
• Gabcast is a simple way to make podcasts, by just phoning in…
• Dim Dim is a free to use online conference and presentation tool.
• Elluminate another online presentation tool which was used at the recent LSIS eCPD Launch Conference.
• Instant Presenter as used for the MoLeNET online conferences.
• Oovoo which is an alternative to Skype and can be used for four way video conferencing.
• Ustream is a online video broadcasting service.

John Whalley’s final comment, as I didn’t give him much notice on the podcast recording.

Thought on one thing to do if it snows – have a series of general podcasts prepared on a ‘non-mainstream’ area for your subject, distributed early in the course.  Ask learners to review if can’t get in to college.

Apologies for the poor sound quality at time on the recording, which we are putting down to the poor weather!

e-Learning Stuff Podcast #010: Let’s take a note

So what is it about Google Docs and Evernote and other online office type applications? Why are they useful for learning? What can we use them for.

This is the tenth e-Learning Stuff Podcast, Let’s take a note.

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In this show, James is joined by Dave Foord and Nick Jeans.

Shownotes

• Google Docs
• Google Gears
• Evernote
• BBC news item on pupils bypassing web filters
• Mac OS X Spaces
• Flip Mino Video Camera

e-Learning Stuff Podcast #009: The VLE Debate

So is the VLE the future for e-learning, the past or just a temporary solution? Are they fit for purpose or a compromise? What about the learners?

This is the ninth e-Learning Stuff Podcast, The VLE Debate.

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In this show, James is joined by Steve Wheeler, Rob Englebright, Dave Foord and David Sugden.

This show is a result of two blog posts one by Steve Wheeler and one by James Clay.

Shownotes

• Steve Wheeler’s Monkey Business blog post which started off this whole debate. Since this was recorded Steve has written a follow up post: The Emperor’s new clothes?
• James Clay’s response “A bad workman always blames his tools”.

Photo source.

e-Learning Stuff Podcast #008 – Forcing the windows open!

This is the eighth e-Learning Stuff Podcast, Forcing the windows open!

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In this show, James is joined by Nick Jeans, Kev Hickey, Dave Foord and David Sugden.

In this the eighth episode of e-Learning Stuff they discuss the pros and cons of forcing links to open in new browser windows. In that discussion they cover accessibility, usability, links, legal implications, frames and then some…

Shownotes

• My original blog post on new browser windows.
• BBC News article on the Shetland Internet “squabble”.

Photo source.

e-Learning Stuff Podcast #007 – We’re not negative!

This is the seventh e-Learning Stuff Podcast, We’re not negative!

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In this the seventh e-Learning Stuff podcast, James is joined by  Nick Jeans, Kev Hickey, Dave Foord, David Sugden and Lilian Soon.

Today we discuss teacher training and e-learning.

e-Learning Stuff Podcast #006 – You say Asus and I say Asus…

This is the sixth e-Learning Stuff Podcast, You say Asus and I say Asus…

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In this show, James is joined by Nick Jeans, Kev Hickey, Dave Foord, David Sugden and Lisa Valentine.

The discussion starts off looking at the role of the Asus EeePC and other netbooks on e-learning on colleges across the UK. The discussion also looks at the variety of presentation software now available from PowerPoint to Keynote, Open Office to Google Docs. Then there is other stuff as well…

Shownotes

• The Asus EeePC is one year old.
• Case Study: Using Mobile Technology to Encourage Independent Study (John Leggott College).
• The ZoomStorm FizzBook which has a handle like the OLPC.
• ZuiPrezi is a zooming presentation editor which allows you to easily create stunning presentations. With the help of ZuiPrezi you can create dynamic and visually structured zooming maps of texts, images, videos, PDFs, drawings. ZuiPrezi has a very intuitive interface and support for online sharing.
• Create professional video for the classroom with the click of a button! Animoto combines your images and music to produce video with the visual impact of a music video.
• Using Flowgram you can create interactive guided presentations by combining web pages, photos, Power Point and more with your voice, notes and highlights.  Viewers can control the pages, scroll, click on links, view videos and more. An example Flowgram that was made by James.
• Wikipedia definition of a mind map.
• Mindomo is a versatile Web-based mind mapping tool, delivering the capabilities of desktop mind mapping software in a Web browser – with no complex software to install or maintain.
• Pecha Kucha is a presentation format that allows just twenty slides and twenty seconds for each slide. The presentation from James he delivered at the Pecha Kucha session at Handheld Learning 2008.
• Dave Foord’s excellent cameraphone!
• Nice article on how to use web based office tools offline.

Photo source.

e-Learning Stuff Podcast #005 – it’s because he’s from Sheffield…

This is the fifth e-Learning Stuff Podcast, it’s because he’s from Sheffield…

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In this show, James is joined by Nick Jeans, Dave Foord, David Sugden and Lisa Valentine and they start to discuss podcasting, Skype, quality of Skype before moving onto LLW. Apologies for the poor audio quality of Nick which is because he’s from Sheffield (or so Dave says).

Shownotes

• Download Skype.
• Dave Foord’s blog post on the Excellence in Inclusivity Event.
• RSC Yorkshire and Humberside Excellence in Inclusivity Event.
• The Excellence in inclusivity portal.

Photo source, thanks Lilian.