RSC-MP3 monthly audio podcast

Welcome to our fourth episode of RSC-MP3, a monthly audio podcast highlighting some higher education focused e-learning news, interviews and resources brought to you by Kevin Brace (RSC West Midlands) and Martin Hawksey (RSC Scotland North and East). A quarter of the way through the year and we fall back into bad habits with a mammoth 44 minute edition. Fear not as we have summarised links to the various topics we discuss and indicate the timestamps so you can jump straight to our insightful repertoire. You can listen to this podcast on your computer, or when “on the move” by adding it to your ipod playlist. Listen to the podcast using the links top right of this page>>>

This month Kevin interviewed Emma Purnell, Blended Learning Advisor at the University of Wolverhampton. Emma discusses her (many years) experience in the use of eportfolios as a student, lecturer, and staff support expert. Emma also gives some very insightful and pragmatic advice for an organisational adoption of eportfolios for those who are just beginning to discover their enormous potential. Click here for the interview with Emma Purnell in full (26 minutes).

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• Gabber - Kevin’s blog
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Links from Kevin’s subjects: Timestamps represented as [minutes:seconds]

• HEFCE launches strategy for technology-enhanced learning [1:22]
• Handbook_of_Emerging_Technologies_for_Learning - the handbook is also available as a PDF http://umanitoba.ca/learning_technologies/cetl/HETL.pdf [5:00]
• Connectivism (as a pedagogy) [5:35]
• Multiple Intelligences in 3D [7:55]

o http://wiki.rscwmsystems.org.uk/index.php/Webquests

o Guided enquiry (based learning) [8:08]

o Multiple Intelligences [9:01]

o SecondLife

• HE conference in partnership with the Academy: playing with learning 2 - http://info.rsc-wm.ac.uk/events/event_details.asp?eid=412 [9:52]
• EduApps.org - Download your free usb cutout here [10:30]
• AccessApps/EduApps explaination video

· get Teaching Inclusively [16:00]

• HE in FE Modules

· Preparing Learning

· Delivering Learning (Lecture / Classroom)

· Delivering Learning (Online)

· Delivering Learning (Practical / Fieldwork / Placement)

· Assessing Learning

o Xerte (a learning package design tool) [17:10]

o Moodle And Xerte On a Stick prepared by Thomas Rochford at RSC Eastern [17:35]

• eXe Learning - learning package design tool (features on EduApps) [20:24]

• Aggregating pipes! [21:25]
• Yahoo Pipes - rewire the web
• http://bit.ly/ - a useful URL shortener
• OUseful lots of great data manipulation techniques from Tony Hirst [23:30]

Links from Martin’s subjects:

• Evernote – a personal e-portfolio solution for students? [25:30]
• Evernote
• Google Notebook - Google recently announced they were stopping development of this service and are no longer accepting new users [26:27]
• Google Sites free content management tool (was google pages)

o JISC infoNet e-Portfolio infoKit [27:50]

o Evernote - a personalised e-portfolio solution screencast [33:27]

o Other e-portfolio solutions - PebblePad and Mahara [35:45]

o Midlands e-portfolio group - an online group to share best practice

o EverPress - WordPress plugin which links Evernote and WordPress [37:30]

o Dumfries and Galloway College's use of WordPress is highlighted in the JISC Effective Practice with e-Portfolios [38:00]

o Some hosted blogging tools - Blogger and WordPress [39:27]

o Everything you needed to know about e-portfolios

o eportfoliomanager - allows Wordpress based student ePortfolios to be created (still in early development) [40:20]