When PowerPoint goes bad

What are your pet peeves about using PowerPoint? Is it the tool itself or how people use it? I use PowerPoint, and think it is […]

Animating for Panopto

When I recorded the video promoting Learning Technology Advice Drop-in Sessions (for this blog post) I wanted to capture my animations from Powerpoint in the […]

Creating learning content on your phone: Videos

Creating resources on my phone is not something I usually do, unless it’s a tweet, photo for Instagram, document for my book projects, or videos for […]

6 Features of Learning Objects

Learning objects (LOs) are digital entities that are authentic and based on real-world events. They are integrated within an eLearning course, in response and direct […]

Reading: How should we measure online learning activity?

I’m very interested in learning analytics in general, but probably more so in their application to how they can be used to benefit both the […]

Microsoft is acquiring LinkedIn! From DSC: Some initial thoughts/questions regarding this.

From Microsoft and LinkedIn: Microsoft and LinkedIn: Together changing the way the world works — from blog.linkedin.com Excerpt: Today [6/13/16] we are excited to share […]

Xerte Conference 2016 by Dewi (Post1/3)

by Dewi Parry This year, a few of us attended the Xerte Conference 2016, hosted by Nottingham University. As we’ve mentioned here on the blog, […]

Xerte Conference 2016 by Jin (Post2/3)

by Jin Tan Xerte (Xerte Online Toolkit) has been supported at Cardiff University since it was introduced by Simon Wood in 2008. I’ve been supporting […]

Xerte Conference 2016 by Karl (Post3/3)

by Karl Luke In my previous Learning Technologist role within MEDIC I was responsible for the rapid development of interactive, online modules for a number […]

All about Xerte: new tutorial resource

by Catherine Emmett Last week’s adventures for one-half of the learning technology enablement team were all about the Xerte conference. There’s a lot of exciting […]

LO Characteristics and granularity

Some days ago we wrote about Learning Objects (LO) yand we told that soon we would talk about their characteristics. Well, here we are with […]

How ‘long’ is too ‘long’?

For a few years now I’ve been spouting the same lines when it comes to planning a video for an distance learning course or MOOC: “preferably […]

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