Using the iPod for Learning

Thanks to Elaine Talbert, I came across this very useful slideshow on using an iPod in education. The author, Grace, includes lots of useful ideas and links to further resources.

An iPod in Your Classroom Toolbox

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: ade ucboe)

The following articles also provide great ideas on how to use the iPod in education:
* Creating Education Content for iPods
* 10 Ways to Make Your iPod a Better Learning Gadget
* iPods for closing the achievemnet gap
* iPod in Education
* Testing iPods in Special Education

Of course, Apple's iTunes U is also a must as it includes free lectures, language lessons and audiobooks. You can "explore over 100,000 educational audio and video files from top universities, museums and public media organizations from around the world".

---

Technorati Tags: education, ipod, itunes u

---

Share

Free Resources for Teachers by Teachers (3)

MERLOT provides over 20,000 learning materials categorised into seven main areas: Arts, Business, Education, Humanities, Mathematics and Statistics, Science and Technology, Social Sciences.

MERLOT enables you to put "Educational Innovations Into Practice" and to find peer reviewed online teaching and learning materials. By joining MERLOT you can share advice and expertise about education with colleagues.

The learning materials are divided into groups such as animations, case studies, collections, drill and practice, learning object repositories, lectures/presentations, online courses, open journal-articles, open textbooks, reference materials, quizzes/tests, simulations, tutorials and workshops.

A word of warning! Not all of the links are current. I discoverd several interesting looking resources only to find that the 'go to material' link didn't go anywhere.

---

Technorati Tags: learning materials, merlot

---

Share

Christmas Greetings 2008

Happy Christmas to one and all!

---

Share

Handy ICT Advice Sheets

NCTE provides some very useful advice sheets for those involved in ICT.

The list is continually expanding so it is well worth checking back periodically. Unfortunately, no RSS provided for the page but you could always use Page2RSS as described in an earlier post!

Apart from the advice sheets, there is lots of other useful information to be found at NCTE.

NCTE is the National Centre for Technology in Education, the Irish Government agency established to provide advice, support and information on the use of ICT in education.

---

Technorati Tags: ict, ncte

---

Share

Mobile Version of Your Blog or Website

Do you need a mobile version of your blog or website? If so, check out MoFuse.

With MoFuse you can "expand your readership by offering your blog on the go".

Once setup, you can visit your blog or website by using your mobile phone. Your MoFuse site is specifically designed for mobile screens of 3" or less.

Registration and setup is really easy and you can be 'mobile' literally within minutes. It works like a treat as you can see from the accompanying picture!

Your MoFuse site address takes the form of -http://yourname.mofuse.mobi/-. You can also add a nice graphic link on your blog.



Spotted this on Inge's blog, which has lots of interesting information about mobile elearning. Thanks Inge!

---

Technorati Tags: blog, mobile, mofuse

---

Share

Moniter Sites that do not have RSS

Page2RSS is a very useful service that lets you monitor web sites that do not publish RSS feeds. Page2RSS will check any web page for updates and deliver them to your favourite RSS aggregator.

You can even add a button to your browser's bookmarks toolbar that will create a Page2RSS feed for the page you are currently viewing. A very easy and convenient way to create feeds for pages you want to monitor.

Just have a look at the example below!

---

Technorati Tags: page2rss, rss

---

Share

Store Files Online with Hotmail

Windows Live SkyDrive, which comes with a hotmail/windows live account gives you 25GB of free online storage. Very handy for storing smaller files as uploading is restricted to 50MB per file.

In addition, with SkyDrive you can download entire folders as Zip files and it also provides an online slide show for your photos. The uploaded files may be kept private or shared with other users.

Looks and works just like an extra hard drive except your files are stored in the 'cloud' :-)

In terms of file storage, SkyDrive seems a better deal than Google. Only 7MB capacity with gmail and a restriction on the file formats that can be uploaded.

---

Technorati Tags: cloud computing, gmail, hotmail, skydrive

---

Share