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e-Porfolios Podcasts

Posted by Tim O'Riordan on Friday 29 July 2011
Tags: e-learning | staff training | teaching | video |

An e-portfolio is a product, created by the learner, a collection of digital artefacts articulating experiences, achievements, and learning¹.

Thanks to the pioneering work of e-Learning Coordinator, Geoff Rebbeck, Thanet College is one of the first instituitions in the UK to realise the benefits of e-portfolios. Working with the Institute for Learning, the professional body for further education practitioners in England, Thanet College introduced the e-portfolio system via their Continuing Professional Development programme. In this way key staff have become comfortable with the technologies and are now introducing e-portfolios to their students. Talking with Geoff and other members of college staff it was clear that e-portfolios have made a big impact and students have embraced the new technologies.

Throughout the summer JISC DIgital Media will be travelling the UK, visiting colleges and universities and capturing their e-portfolio stories with the aim of having 5 podcasts online by the end of this year.

Related JISC Digital Media Advice:

Using digital media for your e-Portfolio

References:

1. Higher Education Funding Council for England, 2008. Effective Practice with e-Portfolios. London: JISC. [Online] Available at: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/effectivepracticeeportfolios [Accessed 19 July 2011]

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  Posted by Zak Mensah on Tuesday 26 July 2011
  Tags: e-learning | user experience |

  Ibis Reader is a platform for reading ePub ebooks in the browser or on a mobile phone.

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  Posted by Steve Hull on Friday 22 July 2011
  Tags: cameras | equipment | hardware | lenses | photography |

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• New Collection from the V&A

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Tuesday 19 July 2011
  Tags:

  This autumn the Victoria and Albert Museum will be making available a new gallery providing access to many images from its collection.

• Google’s search by image feature mini-test

  Posted by Nigel Goldsmith on Friday 15 July 2011
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  A friend recently told me that they had seen one of my photographs on an overseas website. They didn't have the URL and the image metadata had been stripped and so a simple subject search probably wouldn’t find it. This is a job for the 'Search by Image' feature offered by Google I thought.

• My DIVERSE 2011 Conference

  Posted by Tim O'Riordan on Thursday 14 July 2011
  Tags: e-learning | podcasts | usability | video |

  DIVERSE2011 was a great event and, as well as presenting a paper (about Film Studies undergraduates' experiences of using web-based video to support their learning) I got to see presentations from leaders in the field of digital video in education.

• Introduction to the Digital Audio Software Environment

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Wednesday 13 July 2011
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  For any beginners working with digital audio, or anyone who is struggling with finding their way around thier digital audio software platform, this short screencast covers the basics, using Audacity, Reaper and Logic as examples.  This screencast is designed to accompany our document The Digital Audio Software Environment.

   

• Mono and stereo audio in a nutshell

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Wednesday 13 July 2011
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  Ever struggled with understanding the difference between and applications of mono and stereo audio files?

   

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  Posted by Zak Mensah on Wednesday 13 July 2011
  Tags: finding images |

  Google has just launched a new feature for image search.

• A podcasting workflow from James Clay - e-learning Stuff Podcast

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Monday 11 July 2011
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  Author of the e-learning Stuff Podcast, James Clay, has blogged about his podcasting workflow.

• In at the deep end

  Posted by Gavin Brockis on Friday 08 July 2011
  Tags: screencast |

  Our work experience intern - 15 year old Hayley Cartwright - has packed a lot into her week here at JISC Digital Media. This is her screencast diary of some of what she's covered - all scripted, recorded and edited by Hayley herself (with a little expert guidance), and delivered to a tight deadline :

• Personal achievement - CMALT

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Friday 08 July 2011
  Tags: e-learning |

  Today I heard the positive news that I have been awarded my CMALT accreditation!

• #1 - Using blogs and other web tools for collaborative student work

  Posted by Zak Mensah on Wednesday 06 July 2011
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  The rise of integrating non-traditional academic online tools with student work has led us to investigate the uses of blogs and other online tools in HE and FE, particularly with regards to collaborative work and as part of student’s reflective practice. This series of blogs begins with an introduction to the subject and technologies commonly used for student blogging. Future posts will investigate this topic in greater detail.

  If you have used blogging in your teaching and learning, or would like to see certain topics covered in this series please don’t hesitate to contact us.