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• Why Every College Should Start Crowdsourcing

  The Ready Availability of a Crowd
  Universities Benefit from Crowdsourcing
  Students Benefit from Crowdsourcing
  Colleges and Crowdsourcing: An Example

  tags: crowdsourcing HE

• 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

  tags: virtual_romans architectual_forensics

• Greenview Research Group

  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.

  tags: research sustainability jisc visualising_energy

• 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

  tags: twitter teaching learning socal_media #mod3

• 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.

  tags: thomas virtual_space virtual_identity lambdamoo new_media

• 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.

  tags: electronic_music sound ubuweb music

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