by Derek Morrison, 26 June 2011 The first 6 minutes of the BBC’s Click program for 25 June 2011 contains an interesting item about how some schools have taken radical decisions about the role of technologies in their classrooms and whether “the cheque is worth the tech”. Featuring New York City’s Hudson High School (Twitter […]
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Periodic Table of Videos
May 26th, 2011
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by Derek Morrison, 26 May 2011 The University of Nottingham’s Periodic Table of Videos is an excellent example of science outreach. All 118 elements in the periodic table now have supporting and stimulating videos hosted on YouTube. Even if you don’t have an interest in the chemistry you have just got to admire the enthusiasm […]
RSA Animate – synergising animation and speech?
April 10th, 2011
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by Derek Morrison, 10 April 2011 If you haven’t come across the RSA Animate resources yet then head there post haste; the site offers many items that should be of interest to digital scholars. To me the RSA Animate resources are an excellent example of how further value can be added to what was once […]
Authentic language teaching?
December 19th, 2010
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by Derek Morrison, 19 December 2010 I come across the odd gem in my eclectic podcast listening and such was the case with an item in the BBC World Service radio programme Digital Planet of 15 September 2010 which focused on the work of Glovico.org which in its own words describes itself as : “,,, […]
ALT-C 2009: Michael Wesch podcast
September 8th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 8 September 2009 For ALT-C 2009, ALT’s Seb Schmoller asked me and a few other long term ‘e’ commentators and bloggers attending or presenting at the conference if we would take part in a bit of an experiment by also assuming a ‘journalistic’ role (with editorial control remaining in our own hands). […]
Pop stars or supporting acts?
August 17th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 17 August 2009 Any views expressed in this Auricle posting are the author’s and should not be construed as necessarily representing the views of any other individual or organisation. The catalyst for this post was the article PhD students claim they are ‘cheap labour’ in yesterday’s Sunday Times (16 August 2009). As […]
Audio: for the discerning learner
March 12th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 12 March 2009. I’m a big fan of speech radio so my attention was attracted to the short article Knowledge via radio: Learn in waves (Times Online, 8 March 2009). Later in the week I listened to a really interesting programme in the BBC Radio 4 Analysis series called Clever.com (BBC Radio […]
Psst … want to ‘see’ a good podcast?
June 15th, 2008
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by Derek Morrison, 15 June 2008 The Podcasting for Pedagogic Purposes (PPP) SIG is one of the five Pathfinder Network Projects. I participated in the well-attended third face-to-face event at the Warrington campus of the University of Chester on Wednesday (11 June 2008). Particular respect is due to the SIG for including a delegation of […]
