Blog posts

There are several media sharing websites that can be used to host your video recordings. Most offer a free version and the ability to embed your media onto a webpage such as a blog, or in the VLE (E.g. Blackboard). Media sharing websites offer varying features, so I have done a brief comparison of two [...]

What is it?
Q-Review (http://www.esddelu.org.uk/tag/q-review/) is a ‘lecture capture’ service. The software underlying Q-Review is called Echo360. It will record video, audio, and the presenter’s screen (e.g. PowerPoint, notations or webpages) and combine these into a user-friendly web-based format. The system can automatically record scheduled lectures, produce learning resources [...]

We’ve joined the Association for Learning Technology as an organisational member, so everyone at QM gets some benefits.
ALT is the primary professional and scholarly association for learning technology in the UK (see their website here). They also run the biggest annual conference about all matters e-learning, ALT-C, which is running this September in Nottingham. [...]

I’m way behind the crowd here but I’ve just discovered Wordle (http://www.wordle.net/). I’m writing this blog post for all those other folks out there who may also be slightly behind the bandwagon. Even if you haven’t created a Wordle yourself, if you’ve been to a presentation lately, the chances are you may [...]

An interesting blog post popped up in my RSS feeds today. It’s on the Presentation Zen blog written by Garr Reynolds and it’s called Using Kuler to create color themes. Kuler is an online tool hosted by Adobe which allows you to experiment with creating your own colour schemes. You can also [...]