Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: December 9, 2009
Watch the ‘Introduction to the QCF’ animated guide
This interactive animation provides an overview of the key concepts of the Qualifications and Credit Framework. At the end of the animation you will be able to view some case studies about the benefits of the QCF.
(tags: qualifications)
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: October 23, 2009
Mobile learning moves forward at Mimas
Inlcudes a report on the MIMAS Mobile Learning Conference in July 2009
(tags: mobile_learning game_based_learning)
The Loop Learning Resource Centre
Creation of a 21st Century Learning Resource Centre at Blackpool and The Fylde College
(tags: learning_spaces lrc library)
100 Ways to Use Twitter In Your Library
Here are 100 tips that can help you effectively use [...]
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: October 14, 2009
In 2007/8 the RSCs were given funding for an Information Officers post whose role, for half of their time, is to seek and assist with authoring FE case studies for inclusion on the QIA Excellence Gateway. This work has resulted in a wealth of information being made available. Some of the library related case studies [...]
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: October 9, 2009
Yesterday some of the RSC NW team went to see the team based at the University of Manchester who make up the Janet Access Grid Support Centre (AGSC). I must admit that I went along not knowing an awful lot about it, but had a suspicion that a number of years ago I attended a [...]
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: September 12, 2009
Publisher Lookup UK
The Publisher Lookup UK website is a collaborative facility jointly organised by JISC TechDis and The Publishers Association. The purpose of the website is to enable educationalists working with disabled learners to get an electronic version of published texts from UK publishers as quickly as possible. The site gets about 5000 hits per [...]
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: September 8, 2009
Diagrammr
Create and share diagrams by writing sentences!
(tags: visualization web_design system_design)
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: September 3, 2009
VisualBlooms
A Visual Representation of Bloom's Taxonomic Hierarchy with a 21st Century Skills Frame
(tags: eLearning pedagogy)
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: July 7, 2009
OK, so it took two years but I’m going to ressurect my blog. We’ve had a think and redesign of the RSC Northwest website and decided that staff blogs are the way to go – hence the resurrection! Over the next few weeks I will be populating the blog with items from the website and [...]
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: January 9, 2007
There’s been quite a bit of talk about Gabbly recently with regards it’s potential for education and allowing students to discuss websites as a group in real-time. http://www.gabbly.com/
My colleague John Dalziel and I decided to have a play the other day to see what could be done and were concerned about the following:
Please be aware [...]
