David Callaghan: Musings on the use of technology in Teaching and Learning.: January 2012

Friday 13 January 2012

Professionalising the Blog - 16th January 2012

This post supports my session about blogging.

There will be a link the the presentation HERE

Activity 1: Read and Discuss example postings.

Here are links to three blog postings Using the questions below to focus your thoughts, spend a few minutes reading the posting - we'll then discuss each others thoughts before moving onto the next posting:

David’s blog about lecture capture

Rachel’s post about feedback from the VLE review

Nik Peachey’s ‘3 more tasks to teach with technology’

Questions to focus discussion:

Are these ‘professional’ blog entries?
What audience is intended?
Is the tone suitable?
What is the purpose of these posts?

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Image and Listing Services

Dropbox creates a 'folder in the cloud' and allows you to replicate that folder on various devices, including PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android and BlackBerry. I have it install on my home and office PCs, my iPad and my Android phone. Save anything to your DropBox on any device, and within minutes these will be duplicated across all your devices. A disadvantage is that you need to be connected to the internet to use the service - though even when disconnected you still have your local copy of any files. There is also a web service for DropBox, so you only need a browser and an Internet connection to get at your documents. And you can set it up to act as a 'WebSite'.