January 2009 |
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Studio4Learning TV
Studio4Learning.tv provides free access to short video clips in a wide reange of subjects: an excellent source for short video clips from a wide range of subjects: Math, Sciences, Languages, English, Social Sciences, Business, Arts. Registration is not required to access the videos. "Anyone can watch videos. If you register (again, free), you can bookmark videos and playlists you want to come back to, upload your own UGC versions of class topics, download playlists and videos to your iPod, rate videos, compete in contests, and get our eNewsletter."
Theory and Practice of Online Learning, 2nd Edition
Edited by Terry Anderson - Athabasca University Press
 This book is available both for purchase or for free, in an e-book format. The entire book or individual chapters may be downloaded as PDF files. Topics include theories of online learning, infrastructures and technology, libraries' role and student support . It is structured into the following sections:
PART I: Role and Function of Theory in Online Education
Development and Delivery
PART II: Infrastructure and Support for Content Development
PART III: Design and Development of Online Courses
PART IV: Delivery, Quality Control, and Student Support
of Online Courses
From the Foreword: "The revised version of the Theory and Practice of Online Learning, edited
by Terry Anderson, brings together recent developments in both the
practice and our understanding of online learning".
Education for a Digital World
Co-published by BCcampus and Commonwealth of Learning, 2008
 "Education for a Digital World contains a comprehensive collection of proven strategies and tools for effective online teaching, based on the principles of learning as a social process. It offers practical, contemporary guidance to support e-learning decision-making, instructional choices, as well as program and course planning, and development.
Practical advice, real-life examples, case studies, and useful resources supply in-depth perspectives about structuring and fostering socially engaging learning in an online environment."
The e-book can be downloaded in full or in individual chapters as follows:
Part 1: The Impact of Instructional Technologies
Part 2: Preparing Online Courses
Part 3: Implementing Technology
Part 4: E-learning in Action
Part 5: Engagement and Communication |
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The history of the Internet
Milah Bilgil
"History of the Internet" is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to filesharing, from Arpanet to Internet. The clip shows a brief overview
of this history and shall animate to go on discovering the history of the internet.
The history is told using the PICOL icons on picol.org. PICOL is an project for providing free and open icons for electronic devices.
The aim is to find a common pictorial language for electronic communication".
Academic Earth
 “Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world class education." It provides access to videos from MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale, some of them grouped into courses. Subjects include Computer Science,
Economics, English, Social Sciences. Users can "easily find, interact with, and learn from full video courses and lectures from the world’s leading scholars".
ARTNATOMY
"ARTNATOMY is a Flash interactive english/spanish tool. It is intended to facilitate the teaching and learning of the anatomical and biomechanical foundation of facial expression morphology. The primary goal is to provide the student and those interested, a convenient reference tool, facilitating familiarity and experimentation with the underlying anatomical structures using correct biomechanical representation of the different facial expressions." Originally designed for art students, it can also be used by teachers/students of psychology.
VerbaLearn
 This is a web site for practicing and improving English vocabulary. First, you take quizzes to identify the words you do not know. Each word answered incorrectly during the quiz will appear on your next Studylist. "Listen to an MP3 version of your personalized Studylist on your computer or MP3 player"
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Lovely Charts
This online diagramming application "allows you to create professional looking diagrams of all kinds, such as flowcharts, sitemaps, organisational charts, wireframes, for free". Generated charts may be exported as JPEG or PNG files. The free account allows to create and export as many charts as you want, but restricts saving only one chart for future editing. Check the Gallery to have a look at the type of diagrammes it generates.
How to Find the Right Chart Type for your Numeric Data
Amit Agarwal
"Charts help you visualize numeric data in a graphical format but the problem is there are just too many types of charts to choose from. You have bar charts, bubble charts, pie charts, line histograms and so on. If you are finding it hard to pick the right chart type for your type of data, this easy flow chart (available as PDF and JPG) courtesy Andrew Abela should help you make the decision quickly. Start from the center and take the route that best matches your data."
Digital Research Tools
 "This site collects information and reviews of tools and resources useful for researchers. "We do our best to keep our reviews clear and straightforward rather than full of jargon. We also group tools into categories so that researchers can identify relevant ones more easily. We cover a range of software, including tools to help you manage and share your bookmarks, create bibliographies, analyze and visualize texts, brainstorm, collaborate, collect data, etc."
Free Audio Editor 2009
Free Audio Editor handles common audio formats (from MP3 and WMA to WAV and OGG) and allows to "edit audio files visually, record audio from a microphone or any other available input device, apply various effects, CD ripping/burning".
Second Brain
 "Secondbrain is your personal content library. We make it really easy to keep track of all the content that you have online. Bookmark web-pages and import content from your favorite internet-services. Organize everything in collections and share your lifestream on your public page." |
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Have some ideas and comments to share with us or the rest of the Campus on IT facilities and services. You can use the Computer Service Centre Weblog.
You are also welcome to send us contributions and suggestions about subjects you would like to see here, links to web sites, small articles, reviews of books or web sites, or any reports of educational experience you may want to share with others.
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Campus IT Newsletter Production/Editing Team
Chief Editor: Conceição Carvalho
Advisors: José Chan, Colin Lai, Voyage Io
Technical Advisors: Simon Fong, Joe Poon, Joey Fong |
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