Wednesday 25 August 2010
Friday 13 August 2010
Thing 23
Phew, made it!
So, to evaluate.
Some of the things are great gadgets and I'm glad I've found out about them - Doodle's really good. Zotero and Delicious seem to have a lot to offer. My iGoogle page is useful and now I know what to do with RSS feeds.
Seeing the social networking stuff has been interesting, too. There has been discussion about the Darwin Correspondence Project having a presence in this area; but it seems to me that if you want to do this you have to do it properly. Running a Facebook page is a commitment - nobody's interested if you haven't posted anything for three months.
So - definite possibilities, but like most things it takes hard work to be really successful.
So, to evaluate.
Some of the things are great gadgets and I'm glad I've found out about them - Doodle's really good. Zotero and Delicious seem to have a lot to offer. My iGoogle page is useful and now I know what to do with RSS feeds.
Seeing the social networking stuff has been interesting, too. There has been discussion about the Darwin Correspondence Project having a presence in this area; but it seems to me that if you want to do this you have to do it properly. Running a Facebook page is a commitment - nobody's interested if you haven't posted anything for three months.
So - definite possibilities, but like most things it takes hard work to be really successful.
Things 3 & 4
This is the proof of the pudding, I suppose. I can certainly see it value as a means of assessing students' involvement with a course of teaching.
Thing 22
Since our project has increased its staff numbers and has now acquired a third office about as far from the existing two offices as it is possible to be unless it was up the tower, I can see that wikis could be very useful to organise and plan without lots of telephone calls and emails.
Wednesday 11 August 2010
Thing 21
I haven't made a podcast myself, but there are several on the Darwin Correspondence Project's website.
There's one about the dramatisation of the correspondence - called 'Re:Design' - at
http://mediaplayer.group.cam.ac.uk/component/option,com_mediadb/task,play/idstr,CU-CSF-PC07-05_DarwinCorrespondence/vv,-2/Itemid,57
There are also interviews about Darwin and his relevance today which can be accessed from this web page
http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/commentary
Like a lot of things, the more effort is put in, the better the final product.
There's one about the dramatisation of the correspondence - called 'Re:Design' - at
http://mediaplayer.group.cam.ac.uk/component/option,com_mediadb/task,play/idstr,CU-CSF-PC07-05_DarwinCorrespondence/vv,-2/Itemid,57
There are also interviews about Darwin and his relevance today which can be accessed from this web page
http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/commentary
Like a lot of things, the more effort is put in, the better the final product.
Thing 20
This seems to me to be a good idea for collaborative working, but I haven't had much luck getting my collaborator up to speed on this! So I'm waiting to see what happens when someone else starts to add to the item I've created.
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