BBC School Radio

BBC School Radio: Provides programmes to support teaching across a wide range of primary curriculum areas. The programmes offer a flexible, convenient resource with learning outcomes which carefully target curriculum objectives. They offer complete, interactive, ready-to-use sessions intended to inspire and motivate pupils.

techLearning

techLearning - The Resource for Education Technology Leaders offers some practical advice for educators on how-to integrate technology into their classrooms. Read From the Classroom to read about "real-life" success stories.

Photoshop Video Tutorials

Visit the e-learning section of Lombergar.com where Digital Artist Domen Lombergar provides 19 free Photoshop Video Tutorials that will guide you through learning many photo editing techniques that will improve your skills. You do need a Quicktime Player to view the tutorials.

Instructional Design Tutorial

Applying Learning Theories to Online Instructional Design
Peter J. Patsula, Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul, South Korea

THE following tutorial consists of five learning modules. Each module describes a learning theory and how that learning theory can be applied to improving online teaching and training materials.

Each module features:

• a description of a well known learning theory;
• a practical example of how the theory and related strategies can be applied to a particular instructional objective or web-design problem; and
• a list of related pedagogical and web-design strategies as researched in the literature.

Google e-Books Project

Google to Scan Books from School Libraries
From eSchool News staff and wire service reports


"Taking a trip to the library soon might take little more than a computer's web browser: Working with major libraries--including those at Harvard, Stanford, and the University of Michigan--Google is hoping to scan millions of books and periodicals into its popular internet search engine during the next several years as part of an effort to bring more of the world's collective knowledge online." Read More >>

E-Learning

Live E-Learning 2004: "More and more organizations are discovering the tools and technologies that allow for streaming video presentations and virtual meetings, and teachers and trainers are no exception. These kinds of synchronous collaboration tools are already being used to bridge gaps in geography and take learning to every corner of the enterprise. "

Read the full Executive Summary (pdf)

Boddington

Bodington:"Originally developed by the University of Leeds to create its virtual learning environment, Bodington is open source software that the worldwide academic community can use for free and can contribute to its development. Bodington powers virtual learning environments in the UK and worldwide."

Links

• Bodington Overview
• Visitor Log in

Technorati Tags: education+technology education open+source CMS VLE online+learning elearning

E-Learning Strategies

E-learning Strategies : How to Get Implementation and Delivery Right First Time
Don Morrison

"As more than 90% of spending on the Internet comes from brick and mortar companies it is these operations that will form the client base for e-learning. This book shows those companies how to get e-learning implementation right first time. Don Morisson explores and explains the whole implementation continuum - strategy, vendor selection, technology, implementation, culture change, content development and delivery. Most importantly he stresses that the success or failure of an e-learning initiative is directly related to the underlying strategic thinking. Written for a more mature, second generation e-learning market the book provides a practitioner's handbook to both guide the novice and inform the veteran."

EUROCALL

EUROCALL: "The European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning. EUROCALL aims to provide a European focus for the promulgation of innovative research, development and practice relating to the use of technologies for language learning."

Here is some information on the 2005 EUROCALL conference:

• Krakow, Poland, 24-27 August 2005
• Theme: CALL, WELL and TELL: fostering autonomy
• Call for Papers (MS Word, 38kb)
• Conference website

Hot Potatoes Educational Software

"The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web.

Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web. Other users must pay for a licence.

Check out the Hot Potatoes licencing terms and pricing on the Half-Baked Software Website."


Tags: education+technology education

Visual News Map

Newsmap: "An application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator. Treemaps are traditionally space-constrained visualizations of information.

Newsmap's objective takes that goal a step further and provides a tool to divide information into quickly recognizable bands which, when presented together, reveal underlying patterns in news reporting across cultures and within news segments in constant change around the globe.

Newsmap does not pretend to replace the googlenews aggregator. It's objective is to simply demonstrate visually the relationships between data and the unseen patterns in news media. It is not thought to display an unbiased view of the news, on the contrary it is thought to ironically accentuate the bias of it."

New Site Highlights EdTech Research

eSchool News: "The State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) has unveiled a new web site intended to highlight nine federally funded studies currently under way in eight states--all charged with exploring the effects of educational technology on student learning."

BlendedEdu Feature Update!

BlendedEdu speaks your language!

We are happy to announce that we have added a translation feature to our weblog which will allow our readers to read BlendedEdu in one of several languages. This translation feature is located on the bottom of the right sidebar. Simply click a flag and this webpage will automatically be translated into the corresponding language (French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, or Chinese.)

Please note that in order to view Asian language characters (Korean, Chinese, Japanese) you will need to have the appropriate language packs loaded onto your computer. In addition, you may need to turn off your pop up software to view the translated page.

Translation services are provided by Alta Vista's Babel Fish and they are soley responsible for the quality and accuracy of the translation.

Enjoy!