http://blogs.londonmet.ac.uk/bus-e-blog Just another Blogs.londonmet.ac.uk weblog Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:47:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Please come along to the LTRI mobile technology seminar when our guest Tamsin Treasure-Jones will preside, in Shoreditch: Talk: ALPS Mobile Technology Date: 31 March; 1.30 - 2.30 (plenty of time for discussions) By: Tamsin Treasure-Jones Mobile Technologies Project Manager, ALPS CETL (http://www.alps-cetl.ac.uk/ALPS.html) Hope to see you there. ColinShare This http://blogs.londonmet.ac.uk/bus-e-blog/2010/03/09/mobile-technology-talk-31st-march/ http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.ac.uk/eduapps/download.php thanks to Caroline Dobson TLTCShare This http://blogs.londonmet.ac.uk/bus-e-blog/2010/03/04/useful-apps-for-designing-user-friendly-resources/ “E-books are good if there are no copies left”: a survey of e-book usage at UWE Library Services Jason Briddon, Jackie Chelin, Greg Ince, Jane Redman, Alastair Sleat, Elspeth Williams Library and Information Research Volume 33 Number 104 2009 http://www.lirg.org.uk/lir/ojs/index.php/lir/article/view/114/204 with thanks to Dawn KinnersleyShare This http://blogs.londonmet.ac.uk/bus-e-blog/2010/03/04/e-book-surveypaper/ This report 'spots' emergent technologies and identifies technologies to watch. http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2010-Horizon-Report.pdfShare This http://blogs.londonmet.ac.uk/bus-e-blog/2010/03/04/new-horizons-report-pdf-address/ standford student survey: iphone "became a kind of extension of the mind and a means to have a social life" http://bit.ly/awvpQ1 thanks to Claire BradleyShare This http://blogs.londonmet.ac.uk/bus-e-blog/2010/03/04/i-love-my-iphone/ How Twitter in the Classroom is Boosting Student Engagement - http://mashable.com/2010/03/01/twitter-classroom/ thanks to Claire BradleyShare This http://blogs.londonmet.ac.uk/bus-e-blog/2010/03/04/twitter-in-the-classroom/ Colleagues, please see below from Chinnapaka. His email address is C.Chinnapaka@londonmet.ac.uk for further information Greetings! *This term I am organizing the Google online marketing challenge a multi disciplinary hands on exercise for students who are interested. I have done this last year with my previous university and, from my own experiences I found that ... http://blogs.londonmet.ac.uk/bus-e-blog/2010/03/04/google-challenge/ Second Life is an immersive 3D world - there is a youtube clip about educational possibilities here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMGR9q43dag Please see below for an opportunity to find out more, regards debbie ================================ Dear colleagues, Vanda Corrigan (Games Studies) and I would like to draw your attention to a two day conference being held in Second Life on 12-13 ... http://blogs.londonmet.ac.uk/bus-e-blog/2010/03/04/second-life-opportunity/ http://blogs.talis.com/panlibus/archives/2009/12/how-college-students-seek-information-in-the-digital-age.php with thanks to Claire bradley, LTRI for spotting thisShare This http://blogs.londonmet.ac.uk/bus-e-blog/2010/01/04/great-new-article-on-how-students-access-online-resources/ A group of Dr Debbie Holley's first year Public Relations student took part in evaluating a mobile phone pilot last week. They used a combination of GPS postioning and SMS text messaging to access material that was sent direct to the mobile phones they were working with.Part of an EU ... http://blogs.londonmet.ac.uk/bus-e-blog/2009/12/18/londonmet-pr-students-take-part-in-mobile-phone-pilot/