Saturday, 30 July 2011
Saturday, 23 July 2011
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Why Every College Should Start Crowdsourcing
The Ready Availability of a Crowd
Universities Benefit from Crowdsourcing
Students Benefit from Crowdsourcing
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Virtual Roman Leicester: A Digital Recreation of 'Ratae Corieltauvorum' 210AD | Heritage Key
A pioneering research project to recreate Roman Leicester with an interactive virtual world is unveiled today at the official launch of Phoenix Square film and digital media centre in the city’s emerging cultural quarter. Members of the public will see a showcase of a range of IOCT - Institute of Creative Technologies - projects including taking an interactive on-screen tour round Roman Leicester 210AD
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The Greenview Research Group is based at De Montfort University and is a collaboration between the Institute of Energy and Sustainable Development, the Institute of Creative Technology and the Estates department.
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Twitter is making me a More Reflective Teacher | The Creative Education Blog
I’m given the chance to think about my own teaching and my students’ learning/Having Twitter running in the background is like having another teacher in the room/Twitter is having a positive effect on my marking/I’m thinking again about exactly what I’m teaching and why/Both Twitter and my marking are making me reflect on how to be more student focused
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Sue Thomas - Virtual Spaces and Online Identities
Professor Sue Thomas, Research Professor of New Media at De Montfort University, recently spoke at Virtual Futures 2.0'11. Prof Thomas' talk centred around her experiences of virtual spaces, particularly LambdaMOO. Here, Prof Thomas reflects on her first experiences of the virtual space, and how her understanding and experiences have changed in the 16 years since she first attended Virtual Futures.
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UbuWeb - Electronic Music Resources
Electronic music resources recommended by Panos Amelides through the IOCT Jiscmail list. Includes links to; book, periodicals, articles, interviews amd media, and patents.
Saturday, 16 July 2011
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Gender and Digital Politics » OWNI.eu, News, Augmented
gender and digital politics http://bit.ly/ooyJFk one for @PatParslow
Saturday, 9 July 2011
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How to archive Twitter chats | Conferences That Work
Step by step guide to using TwapperKeeper
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10 Awesome Twitter Analytics and Visualization Tools | Twitter Tools and Tips for Twitter Success
Ways to visualise or analyse your tweets, the people in your network, and the tweets from the people in your network.
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UKOLN | Cultural Heritage | Briefing Documents
The briefing papers are available in HTML and MS Word formats. The MS Word documents are intended for printing as A5 handouts (using a printer capable of double sided printing).
The following areas are covered by the documents: [Web 2.0], [Blogs], [Micro-Blogs], [Social Networks], [Use of Networked Technologies at Events], [Syndication Technologies], [Web Technologies], [APIs], [Emerging Technologies], [Mobile Technologies], [Usability], [Metadata], [Collection Description], [Digital Preservation], [Standards], [Software], [Risk Management], [Legal Issues] and [Project Management] -
Strategic Content Alliance - Building Bridges To Digital Content. This module, divided into six themed learning objects, can help guide users through the key IPR and licensing issues that they are likely to encounter when creating, using or providing access to digital content. Users are taken through the issues within an interactive, dynamic and learning-driven platform, to help them understand the background and context to each issue as well as provided with links to the relevant tools within the SCA IPR and Licensing Toolkit and other relevant resources.
Saturday, 2 July 2011
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Screencast showing how to set up archiving Twitter threads/conversations for research
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Using TwitterFall to get the most out of Twitter Chats | The Creative Education Blog
Useful screencast illusttrating the functionality of TwitterFall
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Twapper Keeper - "We save tweets" - Archive Tweets
Tool that archives Tweets based upon hashtag, keywork or person - shareable, trackable for data analysis.
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Archiving tweets with The Archivist at JerrySwiatek.com
PC based archiving application
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SleepingTime.org - Find the Sleeping Schedule of anyone !
Great resource for considering the timing of Tweet Chat/synchronous activities with Twitter collaborators
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Everything you need to know about particpation in or organising a educational Twitter chat session