I’m doing this at work, and while I did download the Geocaching app, unfortunately there were no geocaches close to me – and I’m not quite sure that my supervisor would approve of me going off campus to search for a geocache ….. The application…
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New H5P Content Type – Information Wall
Earlier today, Oliver Tacke posted a new content type he developed for a special project. You won’t find this type in the H5P content hub, but as Oliver says, As usual, if you want to use the content type and if are allowed to install H5P libraries, you can simply download this demo content via…
Thing 9 – Video conferencing tools
This blog post will take a look at my experiences using video chat and conferencing platforms and tools.To video chat I have multiple platforms which I like to use for specific means of communication. For example while teaching online with my…
How do you present learning objectives to your students?
By the end of this paper, readers should be able to: 1) examine the effectiveness of learning objectives (LOs) on retention of expository text, 2) evaluate a method to present LOs that optimizes learning, and 3) explain why this method is better than simply providing LOs in the form of traditional statements. – Sana, F.,…
Thing 8 – Facebook
It’s been a while since I have posted and thought I had better get the 23Things blog finished!I have had Facebook for many years now and am aware of the privacy settings. I used it a lot however over the years I have stopped posting and using it as muc…
Alternative delivery methods for distance education: a history
In case my comment on Tony’s blog gets eaten I thought I would repost here what I left as a comment there. While the original post provides some interesting examples of distance education delivery they are mostly examples from our southern neighbours. For a Canadian example we can look to the University of Saskatchewans Better Farming…
Thing 16
In our section of the library, we use OneNote for many different tasks. We use it to advise staff of rostered tasks. We also use it for taking meeting notes. When our Library implemented a new Library Services Platform, we were able to use the section …
Thing 15
I must admit to having never used tumblr before. However it didn’t take me long to find a number of very interesting sites that have nostalgic photos of NYC. A couple of these excellent sites are https://nycnostalgia.tumblr.com/andhttps://wanderin…
Thing 14
Here in Australia, the national broadcaster ABC has an app which is easily downloadable onto your iphone or android, called ABC Listen. It contains a very wide range and number of recorded programs from most ABC radio stations, including music, co…
Thing 13
For my investigations I chose Youtube. I found that it was easy to navigate and to create a playlist, although I needed to create a channel before I could create a playlist. There didn’t seem to be any way that I could download a video to another …