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Category Archives: Tools & Technologies
Apr 2 2012
Free Cloud LMS: Opportunity, Threat or Irrelevance?
Leave a commentWith Blackboard’s announcement of the takeover of Moodlerooms and NetSpot last week the VLE/LMS market is clearly undergoing a fair amount of change after a few years of relative inactivity. I originally wrote this piece for a talk at a … Continue reading
Posted by: April 2, 2012
Tagged with: LMS, moodle, Open Source, social web, VLE
Mar 8 2012
Celebrating Open Education Week 2012: LSE Learning Resources Online
Leave a commentOur guest post this week comes from Natalia Madjarevic, Academic Support Librarian (Economics) and LSE Research Online Manager This week is the first Open Education Week (5-10 March 2012), raising awareness of open education and how it is used in … Continue reading
Posted by: March 8, 2012
Mar 1 2012
Moving to Moodle 2: coming to LSE in Summer 2012
2 CommentsIn Summer 2012 LSE will be upgrading the current version of Moodle to an improved platform Moodle2 that will be up and ready for the coming academic year 2012/13. The Centre for Learning Technology are planning a range of activities … Continue reading
Posted by: March 1, 2012
Feb 8 2012
iMeet: a participant shares his thoughts
Leave a commentAlan Bracey from Academic Services in LSE Library recently attended CLT’s Imeet and was kind enough to write a short post about the event which we have posted below. IMeet was billed as a friendly and informal group discussion on the … Continue reading
Posted by: February 8, 2012
Aug 31 2011
Introducing Moodle 2
Leave a commentWe are planning our move to a new version of Moodle in Summer 2012 and need volunteers to pilot it during Lent 2012. There is a new version of Moodle: Moodle 2. Earlier this year we explained Why LSE is … Continue reading
Posted by: August 31, 2011
Tagged with: moodle
Aug 22 2011
Preparing your Moodle Courses for 2011-12
Leave a commentMoodle training for September, further support & a Moodle end-of-year reminder! There are several Moodle Training courses scheduled for September, including a new weekly Moodle Refresher to help you prepare for the new academic year. The refresher course is for … Continue reading
Posted by: August 22, 2011
Aug 9 2011
LucidChart
Leave a commentLucidChart is an online tool for creating diagrams, charts and process maps that can quickly be shared, edited and published to the web. Getting started is easy: pick your document type and simply drag ‘n’ drop elements to the canvas to … Continue reading
Posted by: August 9, 2011
Aug 4 2011
Introducing Google+
Leave a commentThe Google+ Project is Google’s new social networking service. There have been lots of detailed reviews already, for example, the Huffington Post’s Google+ Review Roundup so I’ll keep this short. The cornerstone of G+ is Circles. Circles allow you to … Continue reading
Posted by: August 4, 2011
Aug 3 2011
5 tools for making your working day easier
Leave a commentA brief overview of my 5 favourites: Remember the Milk, Dropbox, Delicious, Evernote & Doodle. After reading The research lab in your pocket: apps and the academy in this week’s THE I thought I’d highlight the 5 tools I make … Continue reading
Posted by: August 3, 2011
Apr 14 2011
Ask the audience – again and again
1 CommentAsking students (or any audience) questions breaks up the monotony of unidirectional lecturing/ presenting, keeps minds from wandering, turns them into active, reciprocal participants, engages them beyond listening. At large or online events, which lack the intimacy of small seminars, … Continue reading
Posted by: April 14, 2011
Tagged with: feedback, opinion, polling, PRS, social web, students, Surveys