One of the activities I’m increasingly engaging in at UNSW is working with local academics to help them integrate educational technologies into their courses. Part and parcel to this is the need for support documentation for both academics and students depicting how to actually use them.
A recent request came through concerning the creation of rich media presentations. The instructor is going to ask her students to design and produce presentations that can be added to the LMS, where they are then discussed by the other students. She …

This post seeks to shed some light on the topics of Pageflakes, “pagecasts”, how they’re created, potential uses, and some of the issues to bear in mind when investigating their use.
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Background
Pageflakes is one of a growing number of websites that enables people to establish a personalised and customised space on the web. Unlike the websites of a number of years …