The crossover between DUCKLING and OTTER — by ed94 — posted on May 17, 2010 08:50 AM — 0 comment(s)

With my time as a DOTTER (DUCKLING and OTTER) coming to an end and becoming just a DUCKLING, I thought this was a good opportunity to reflect on what I have learnt as a DOTTER (or OTTLING if you’d prefer!).

Can DUCKLING developments be embedded and sustained? CAMEL Meeting 28 April 2010 — by tmb10 — posted on May 07, 2010 04:25 PM — 0 comment(s)

On 28 April, 2010, Gabi Witthaus and Terese Bird attended a CAMEL meeting sponsored by JISC and taking place at Middlesex University, the theme of which was to examine whether the developments of the project can be embedded and sustained. Once the project is over, can teaching teams continue to use the technologies, findings and deliverables?

eBooks and eReaders: Advancing at Warp Speed — by tmb10 — posted on Apr 26, 2010 07:49 PM — 0 comment(s)

The ebooks and ereaders market, as well as the way in which students are using these, is advancing almost more quickly than we can keep up with it. Almost!

Trainers' Guide to Second Life Training — by tmb10 — posted on Mar 22, 2010 10:35 AM — 0 comment(s)

After several rounds of giving training in Second Life to students who have never experienced it, we came up with a list of essential skills which should be covered (or at least considered for coverage) in such training.

Second Life presentation at LLAS E-learning Symposium — by grw8 — posted on Feb 02, 2010 09:44 AM — 0 comment(s)

In a presentation for the LLAS (Languages and Linguistics and Area Studies) Annual E-learning Symposium at the University of Southampton, 'MA TESOL and Applied Linguistics Students Explore Second Life', Ming Nie and I reported on a SL-tivity that took place over seven weeks at the end of 2009. The presentation for LLAS Symposium was done in 'mixed-reality', with me in Southampton and Ming in Leicester, and our avatars meeting on the big screen in Second Life.

Speech styles in audio feedback — by grw8 — posted on Dec 23, 2009 06:25 PM — 0 comment(s)

Last Friday, three members of the DUCKLING team in the MA TESOL and Applied Linguistics presented a paper at a conference on audio feedback. The presentation harmonised with several of the themes that emerged throughout the day.

Report and reflection on the first SL training to TESOL students — by mn79 — posted on Oct 29, 2009 01:59 PM — 0 comment(s)

We provided the 1st SL training session to a group of 5 distance TESOL students. They joined the session from Canada, South Korea and Singapore...

Adding Podcasts to Blackboard — by kb179 — posted on Oct 16, 2009 12:27 PM — 0 comment(s)

In the OP team, we are really enjoying using podcasts and are finding them a welcome addition to the course. However, it has taken us some time to find the best way of making these available to students, and the best way of adding the content to different courses in a way that was not too time consuming. Now that we have found a way of doing this, I thought it might be useful for me to share some tips that we, as a team, have found useful.

E-tivities for DUCKLING TESOL students offically launched this week! — by mn79 — posted on Oct 16, 2009 12:10 PM — 0 comment(s)

An e-tivity designed for DUCKLING MA TESOL students was officially launched on Monday 12 October 2009 on Blackboard.

An Update on the use of E-Book Readers on the Occupational Psychology Course — by kb179 — posted on Sep 29, 2009 09:00 AM — 0 comment(s)

This podcast gives an overview of the implementation of e-book readers within the OP course. It explains where we are up to in terms of implementing the readers, and includes the volunteer announcement that was placed on Blackboard early last week.