I’m too busy to collaborate. 20 Best Blogs in Instructional Technology | Best Colleges Online. Www.mitchellmedia.co.uk » Blog Archive » Why Xerte is the best thing since Lobster! At the JISC Learning and Teaching Practice Experts Group meeting in October I delivered a showcase session summarising the components and benefits of Xerte and Xerte Online Toolkits – the fantastic tools developed by Julian Tenney and Pat Lockley at the University of Nottingham. I’ve been a member of the experts group since quite early on in its life together with some other colleagues with an FE background and although I knew most of those FE colleagues were already aware of the Xerte tools and in some case actively using the tools, I wasn’t quite sure how many members from the HE sector were already aware of or using the tools.
So the formal title of my showcase was: No cost, No skills, No barriers, No excuses! E-Learning authoring for everyone with Xerte Online Toolkits. You can view the Xerte Learning Object here >> Within that LO and particularly for my FE colleagues I had another title which was: Why Xerte is the best thing since Lobster! 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 2011 Horizon Report | Edmedia 2011. Making Multimedia Content with Xerte Workshop - eLPP - Central Wiki Service. This Hands-on workshop from eLPP forum and RSC Scotland S&E took place on Monday 23rd May 2011 Tutors: Craig Mill from RSC Scotland N&E, Darcey Gillie from University Careers Service. This workshop was fully booked, but if you would be interested in attending a future workshop, please leave a comment on this page or email Wilma.Alexander@ed.ac.uk.
Xerte is an open-source development environment for creating online content which allows authors to very easily create rich media resources which are highly accessible and usable in a variety of contexts. As part of the development, a series of templates have been created which make it very simple to create visually appealing, interactive and accessible online materials. This workshop offers a brief introduction to the Xerte project, an opportunity to hear from colleagues about their use of Xerte, and most importantly, an opportunity to try it out for yourself.
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Going viral: Using social media to publicise academic research | Higher Education Network | Guardian Professional. Only a tiny fraction of the research done in universities gets covered by newspapers. So I feel an unbridled sense of satisfaction if I get a research story mentioned in the mainstream media. I'll admit to punching the air when listening to the Today programme and hearing one of our academics talk about their research. But there are increasingly new techniques for sourcing, and promoting, stories using social and digital media. Take the story about, Alex Baker and Chris Rose, two PhD students that sent a helium balloon up to the edge of space, with two cameras in an insulated box suspended below. What's most remarkable about this story was how I came across it – one of their fellow students posted it on Twitter, and I happened to come across the tweet as it mentioned @sheffielduni.
Once I'd got the extra details from the students and chosen the pictures, the release needed to be written. I took a couple of lessons from this. Elluminate Live good practice guide. Midlands mutuality breaks new ground. Birmingham and Nottingham join forces with 'collaborative framework'. John Morgan reports Partnership directors: David Eastwood (left) and David Greenaway Two competing Russell Group universities are launching a groundbreaking partnership that will feature joint academic appointments, research, degrees and overseas ventures. The universities of Birmingham and Nottingham, which collectively have about 67,000 students and 14,000 staff, announced their "framework for collaboration" on 3 February, unveiling a model that they believe could be adopted by other institutions. In an interview with Times Higher Education, David Eastwood and David Greenaway, the vice-chancellors of Birmingham and Nottingham respectively, said they hoped the partnership - a first for UK higher education - would be driven by academic collaboration.
"We would be flattered if people follow suit and I'm sure once it is announced, people will start (asking), 'Is it making a difference? '" john.morgan@tsleducation.com. TechSoup.
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