Just for interest, the Scottish Government has a YouTube site. It’s an official one, the link goes directly to YouTube from the government site. The power of the people? (don’t you just love buzz words and phrases?)
Boxcast #7 – Intute – web resources now on RSS
This boxcast talks about the new RSS feed that Intute has set up. Intute is a resource website for education with a wealth of high quality web resources for several different subjects.
Michael Pick has put together a fantastic set of links to copyright free moving image resources that you can use on electronic media such as VLEs or for mashups.
Michael writes: “Public Domain Video is out there in plentiful supply if you’re willing to have a poke around, which is a godsend for those looking to source moving image content free of copyright restrictions.”
Filed under: research | Tags: generation c, JISC, learner centred, projects
JISC commissioned Ipsos MORI to undertake research among prospective university students to understand:
- current levels of ICT provision at school/college
- expectations of ICT provision at university
- any difference between expectation of ICT provision and that which is provided by HE institutions
These objectives explored the hypothesis that there is a mismatch between student expectations of what they will be able to do in Higher Education (HE) institutions and what HE institutions can and do offer in terms of ICT.
The JISC e-Learning Programme has funded a two-part sequence of studies under the Learner Experiences of e-Learning theme, with the aim of informing the development of appropriate learning environments and tools and the effective design of learning activities.
The publication synthesises key findings from the the JISC Learner Experiences studies, drawing together themes from the Phase 1 reports1 and the 5 Learner Voice2 video case studies. Offering a variety of resources in a multimedia package, In Their Own Words provides a useful introduction to the first stage of JISC-funded research into learners’ experiences, beliefs and motivations in relation to e-learning.
TASI, the Technical Advisory Service for Images, has published advice on Finding Images on Flickr. The advice sheet is available as html on their website, and as a PDF file.
It’s a very useful resource/tutorial for anyone wishing to find images they can incorporate into their materials. I found the advice sheet via the RSC NewsFeed, which has to say this about the resource: “As well as covering basic searching, the document includes sections on searching by date, finding images using maps, finding images taken by particular cameras, using group pools to find subject specific images, and how to find Creative Commons-licensed images to use in your work.”
The Wolfram Demonstrations Project has a considerable portfolio of interactive demonstrations in Maths and the Sciences. They rank from school level to research. While I can’t comment on their quality (I am a philologist and historian, now an educator, not a scientist!) they do look impressive and have been recommended by OLN.
Via OLN Resource of the Day.
