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 …

I normally don’t link to support resources, but this find has proven so informative I wanted to pass it along.
Linden Labs, the folks who bring us SecondLife, have an amazing support library of videos available for download that cover a wide range of topics.  I only discovered them yesterday but have already watched nearly 20 of them.  They’ve cleared up so much confusion for me!
Anyway the post where I initially found the link was called “‘Inside the Lab’ Podcast, a Discussion on Education in Second Life“.  I’ve yet to read …

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Last night during a general browse of YouTube I ran across a link to a new feature called Video Annotation.  This appears to be a new feature that has only just been launched and I’m in the process of experimenting with it to determine it’s functionality, opportunities, strengths and weaknesses.
I’ll report more on this when time permits (see updates below).
In the meantime here is an initial clip I put together.  Unfortunately it appears that annotations aren’t devolved to embedded instances of the clips, so to view the annotations I’ve included …

Duncan Riley at the Inquistr has written a very significant post recently on “Giving Attribution” [11 May 2008] citing the importance of citing your sources and giving credit where credit is due.
The entire piece is worth reading as it outlines an informal, yet long-standing citation convention – much of which I use here. I strongly recommend you visit the site to participate in the discussion or at least avail yourself to the information. Personally, I’m bookmarking it and converting it to PDF as a reference for best practice.
Significantly …