E-learning, history, Humanities, Languages, Modern Languages, OER, Open Educational Resources, oral history, Spanish | Leave a Comment on Making Oral History at the University of Leeds

Making Oral History at the University of Leeds

A couple of weeks ago Antonio Martínez-Arboleda came over from the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Leeds to talk about his work getting students to engage in oral history projects there. Antonio has done a lot of work on OER (Open Educational Resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources), including the HumBox (http://humbox.ac.uk/) repository ofContinue reading Making Oral History at the University of Leeds

Diigo, E-learning, HEA, Higher Education Academy, Social bookmarking, social media, Spanish, web2.0 | Leave a Comment on T&L project launched

T&L project launched

Earlier in September, I took a (long) trip down to Brighton for a meeting at the University of Sussex about a collaborative project called T&L (tagging and learning): Developing digital literacy through social bookmarking between Sussex, Hertfordshire and Lincoln on the use of social bookmarking in Humanities teaching. The project team, Carolyn Pegg, from Hertfordshire,Continue reading T&L project launched

Biosciences, digital literacy, Dissemination, E-learning, employability, history, JISC, Languages, Learning objects, Making Digital History, Psychology, Spanish, Teacher Education, Xerte | Leave a Comment on Launching Making Digital History @ York

Launching Making Digital History @ York

Last Wednesday I attended the first meeting of the 9 projects that make up the Digital Literacies in the Disciplines strand of Higher Education Academy funding. All of the project leaders were unable to attend but there was some fruitful discussion as we outlined our various projects and the challenges and opportunities that we envisaged.Continue reading Launching Making Digital History @ York