Firefox

I have been using firefox for some time now - tab based browsing is a must for anyone who teaches on-line etc.

Firefox 2 has some great new features and extensions. The built in spell checker is great and works very well and has a british english dictionary.

Great extentions -

Zotero - collects references and webpages for research and can create bibliographies
Performancing - enables you to add blog entries to your blogs and automatically blog a webpage you are looking at - something I do often - has got me back into blogging
Cooliris - will open a preview page of any link - is already saving me lots of time as a surf the net, and use our VLE

find them at https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/extensions/

See also - http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2007/03/01/firefox-the-researchers-favourite-application/
which also has comments about institutional use fo Friefox in HE

Wiki sites

mguhlin » wikiwiki A` site about wiki's - 'Its a wiki, wiki world!'

and another - Wikipatterns

Both useful guides to using both on the technical and the strategic levels.

MPD students tasks

While you are waiting for the session today some tasks:

1 - have a look at http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/detective/ and do the tutorial
2- think about what you would like to use a computer to help you be a better student
3- look at the video in the next post - how do you want to use the web?
4- Have a look at the visualization tools listed on an earlier post - which do you think are most useful?
5 - What do you think of my blog - how could I improve it? Add a comment to this post

Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us

MPD undergraduates - have a lok at this - how could you use web 2.0?

Mobile learning

Good review of the advantages of mobile learning.



TechDis - Overview of advantages

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Visual thinking tools

A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods

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A really useful resource

This page has resources to do most of the things you might want to do with e-learning!





Guide to Chosing Using Free E-Learning Tools: Introduction to E-Learning

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Welcome

Having tried various other things I am now going for blogger blogs and this one is for my thoughts on e-learning.