Digital Fingerprint

Wimba Classroom (Workshop)

drbexl — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:00:39 +0000

Wimba classroom

The final session prepared for Wimba, although I need to go back and re-edit my Voice and Pronto presentations!

Thoughts on using Prezi as a teaching tool // Paul Hill

drbexl — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:30:08 +0000

Prezi, the tool that some claim will knock PowerPoint into touch, is a very simple tool to use… easy to learn, and, as we’re always looking for, allows us to do some different things in the classroom – particularly in this case, thinking in a non-linear fashion (although if you add ‘pathways’ they are still pretty linear), and allowing multiple authors to edit the presentation. Find the lack of design options a bit limiting, but if you use the basic white option, and use good images…

Thoughts on using Prezi as a teaching tool on Prezi

TEDx – Reinventing Social Media

drbexl — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:02:15 +0000

A talk of interest to me on a variety of levels, not least that he’s quoting information from my PhD thesis (not that he, nor anyone else, tends to know that !) in discussing ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ – and of course he’s talking about social media.

Love this diagram of our engagement with social media:

Building the Brand of YOU

drbexl — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:00:48 +0000

ID Thy Self: Using Social Media to Build the Brand of You

View more presentations from Parker Brand Creative Services.

This was highlighted on the front page of Slideshare, and I can see why, very cleverly done, and not quite over-straining the egg & chicken jokes!

TED Talk on “The Game Layer”

drbexl — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:28:45 +0000

Really interesting debate, and provides thoughts about how to influence education – see minute 7.30 onwards. “School is a game, it’s just not a terribly well-designed game”. Why do we have a game in which you can lose? Why can you not gain experience points and move up from a B to an A!

Profile of a Twitter User

drbexl — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:24:36 +0000

If you click through to the Infographics Showcase, you can access a much larger image!

Tech Crunch // Chatroulette // Retribution is swift!

drbexl — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:54:44 +0000

Wow, Tech Crunch is attracting fast bile in this Facebook post. To be fair I clicked on the link, the story was there, but Chatroulette v2. wasn’t yet up, so I guess Tech Crunch have now pulled the story, but the social media world is fast… And yes, I’ve gone back to the site, the story has been pulled, and from Facebook, but the online world is that odd mix of ephemeral and permanent!

Learner Autonomy (@jisc)

drbexl — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:18:45 +0000

Taken from the JISC ‘In Their Own Words’ publication, which I need to download – freely available in PDF format on the site, or in print (with a CD) if required.

Augmented Reality Magazine

drbexl — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:43:23 +0000

Can start to see the potential of it, how it changes the meaning of what is seen – fascinating!

TED Talk on Infographics (by @infobeautiful)

drbexl — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:02:20 +0000

I love infographics, and am always looking out for great visual ways to represent information (can’t always do it myself, but can appreciate a good one by someone else) – and love this TED Talk, and particularly salient for those discussions re: the power of the media, see from about minute 3, an infographic of fears, essentially propagated by the media! Minute 5, less fear after 9/11. Get to just before 11 minutes, and the term “statistics, statistics, damn lies & statistics” comes to mind, as you re-contextualise the information in different visual forms.