Printing bits of web pages

If you aver need to print a bit of a web page - or find that because there are huge spaces on either side of a webpage printing it wastes a lot of paper and is difficult to read the answer may be Aardvark - available as an extension for Firefox and a bookmarklet for other browsers - it identifies the element of the webpage you are looking at and then enables you to isolate it from the rest and de-limit it - ie make it full page - very neat!

Sound in lecture theatres

I was observing a lecture this week and during the lecture a student asked for the volume of the PA system to be turned down - I have noticed it was very loud and that when first switched on was picking up the general hum of the conversation at the front, if that conversation had continued during the lecture that would have been a problem, as it was, what occurred to me was that the system was designed so that the volume was the same throughout the room - however this student was sitting at the back and maybe did so because she found it easier to pay attention when the sound of the lecturer`s voice was quieter. Does anyone think about that when they design PA systems?

I have a related problem - I prefer to sit on the right hand side of lecture theatres - and find it very confusing when the loud speakers make the sound come from somewhere to my right when the speaker is to my left.

Just a thought.

Teacher based teaching

The Times Higher this week has an article based on a paper in Chemistry Education Research and Practice in which Patrick Bailey argues that the focus on student centred learning can imply that lecturers should be able to teach in what ever way is required and that this does not take into account the strengths (and weaknesses) of teachers to the detriment of students - I think he has a point.

Original article available to view at the journal web site

Issues and Paradigms in Transformative Tertiary Education

Technology Supported Learning in the 21st Century: Issues and Paradigms in Transformative Tertiary Education
Realising the Potential: Enabling Participative Learning

http://www.staffs.ac.uk/tsl08conference/
Staffordshire University UK warmly welcomes you to this exciting international conference on 9th June 2008

Learner's experience of e-learning

The Experiences of E-Learning Special Interest Group (ELESIG)is a HEA funded
project for those involved in investigations and evaluations of learners'
experiences of e-learning.

You may be interested in the first event for ELESIG that will bring together
practitioners and researchers who have an active interest in evaluating the
learning experiences including the JISC Learner Experience projects,
University of Bradford’s ALPS CETL, Oxford Brookes University Pathfinder
project, and University of Greenwich SEEL Pathfinder project.


Another event that may be of interest to you is the next annual e-learning
conference at the University of Greenwich on the theme of Learning from the
Learners Experience with keynotes by Rhona Sharpe and Fred Garnett on
Tuesday, 8th July. Details and call for proposals at
http://www.gre.ac.uk/e-conference