Last week I started the MA in Distance and On-Line Education at the Open University.
During the gap from studying my last course to this, as well as having dyslexia, I have also been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Since the diagnosis I have been taking anti-psychotic drugs which are having an adverse effect on my short term memory.…
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Loading...Wipes dust off blog. Eek has it really been almost a year 😮 During that time I’ve returned to my blog a few times but I’d well and truly lost my writing mojo.
Yesterday I put a call out on two of the JISC Mail lists (ILT-RSCEM and DIS-Forum) asking which apps people recommended to support students with their studies.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I am not sure how to start this but this is what I have been doing since the end of ETMOOC. I was an ETMOOC dropout, toward the end I just was too busy to keep up. So here is what I have been doing since ETMOOC. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I recently appeared on Global Television’s morning show discussing a few back-to-school apps. You can catch the recording below.
Obviously, there are better apps than the ones I listed. But, I wanted to give viewers a good range of what kinds of tools are available.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Yesterday was a ‘first time day’ as I attend my first accessibility conference. The International Conference on Using New Technologies for Inclusive Learning Conference was held at Glasgow Caladonian University and had been organised as part of ENABLE project.
After the keynote the conference was split into 2 halves with themed sessions running in parallel with each other.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Yesterday was a ‘first time day’ as I attend my first accessibility conference. The International Conference on Using New Technologies for Inclusive Learning Conference was held at Glasgow Caladonian University and had been organised as part of ENABLE project.
After the keynote the conference was split into 2 halves with themed sessions running in parallel with each other.…
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Tweetwally’s that is. Tweet Wally is a free Twitter wall that filters tweets via #hastags, usernames or key words.The tool could be used for a variety of in-class activities including as a starter by posing a question at the start of class and asking students to tweet their replies.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Driven by NIACE, Maths 4 Us promotes maths education to adults. The app index does exactly what the title suggests and provides tutors with a categorised list of mobile applications that can be used both in and outside of the classroom.…
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Our International Student Advisors have purchased iPads to help them keep up to date with their work and deliver presentations to prospective students whilst working abroad. Having never owned an iPad before these colleagues had requested a session to discuss the different presentation apps that are available.…
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