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August 01, 2008http://madrattling.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/non-use-of-blended-learning/ ‘I’ve stuck to the path I’m afraid’ by Kate Orton-Johnson in this month’s British Journal of Educational Technology reports on the non-use of online blended learning material by undergraduates at a UK university.It highlights that “Voluntary non-use or ‘Internet rejecters’ are rarely acknowledged or recognised in the literature” and if it is, it’s usually associated [...] Posted by Matt Lingard | 0 comment(s) July 31, 2008http://madrattling.wordpress.com/2008/07/31/youtube-intro-wesch/ I’ve been meaning to create my first YouTube video for a while now. I haven’t done it yet but the latest fascinating (& humorous) video from Michael Wesch reminds me I must get on with this!His full blog post: An anthropological introduction to YouTube includes a timeline so it’s easy to jump in where you [...] Posted by Matt Lingard | 0 comment(s) http://madrattling.wordpress.com/2008/07/31/net-gen-backlash/ This morning I suggested to a colleague that 2008 was becoming a year of the net generation backlash… by which I mean all the hype about the net generation is now being questioned. Early this week I read: Digital natives’ debate: A critical review of the evidence, which comes hot-on-the-heels of discovering this blog: Net [...]Posted by Matt Lingard | 0 comment(s) July 15, 2008http://madrattling.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/soungle/ Via Diigo: Soungle.comSearch for copyright-free audio files… “cow”, “train” & “scream” were the ones I tried… what does that say about me?? Posted by Matt Lingard | 0 comment(s) http://madrattling.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/a-portal-to-media-literacy/ Michael Wesch is Cultural Anthropologist who explores the “impacts of new media on human interaction”. He’s probably best-known for his Web2.0 in 5-mins YouTube video: The Machine is Us/ing Us It has been viewed around 6-million times and has received 20-thousand user ratings and 7000 comments… If you’ve not seen it or any of his [...]Posted by Matt Lingard | 0 comment(s) July 11, 2008http://madrattling.wordpress.com/2008/07/11/ning/ I was watching a don’t interrupt me now, I’m blogging video earlier today… and it seems to have rubbed off. 3 posts this afternoon… this one needs to be quick as the pub beckons.Unlike the first two the final post today is hot off the press, as I just picked it up from OUseful where [...] Posted by Matt Lingard | 0 comment(s) http://madrattling.wordpress.com/2008/07/11/youtube-annotations/ You can now annotate your own YouTube videos. It’s been possible for a while now but I only learnt of it at an LSE Languages show-and-tell earlier this week. Here’s a good Friday afternoon example:Update!: Ooops - annotations don’t appear in the embedded version below so you need to watch it on YouTube See more on [...] Posted by Matt Lingard | 0 comment(s) http://madrattling.wordpress.com/2008/07/11/start-pages/ Start Pages are personalised homepages that you can fill with news feeds and a whole variety of ‘widgets’ - weather, youtube videos, sudoku puzzles etc. Start pages were initially private homepages but increasingly public facing pages are being offered (and created).I’m looking at them in a bit more detail today as I’ve got to give [...] Posted by Matt Lingard | 0 comment(s) July 09, 2008http://madrattling.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/dippy-timelines/ Thanks to Brian Kelly on Twitter for this one. Dipity: a tool for creating timelines. You can add your own events manually or use external feeds - blog posts, your YouTube videos etc. Here’s a simple one with some of my holiday snaps from Flickr. Not very up-to-date as i’m usually at least six months [...]Posted by Matt Lingard | 0 comment(s) July 07, 2008http://elearning.lse.ac.uk/blogs/clt/?p=296 Today I attended a Language Centre show-and-tell organised by Hervé Didiot-Cook and attended by teachers from the LSE as well as our good friends from Columbia University Language Resource Center - Bill & Stéphane. Challenges/Risk of Second Life Tamy Zupan, the LSE’s SL evangelist (!) talked us thru’ some of the challenges we are going to face as we look at introducing Second Life. These include an interface with a steep learning curve, negative attitudes from staff and students, a lack of narrative (as it’s a virtual world not a game), unclear moral & ethical boundaries and some cultural challenges and of course the pedagogy: how to take advantage of the potential that it offers for for language teaching and how to assess this. CLT will be supporting the Spanish teachers in a pilot which, for now, will very much be an opt-in for students who are keen to explore the use of SL in their Spanish studies. Posted by Matt Lingard | 0 comment(s) |
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