eLearning at New College

Its hard to keep track of the multitude of tools now available online for educators. The Digital Research Tools (DiRT) wiki has links to some of the more common tools for creating a wide range of educational tasks, so check it out if you don’t know your mashups from your mindmaps or your screencasts from your social bookmarks. Its a fantastic resource and seems to be updated regularly. If you know of any tools you think are missing send the author some suggestions on their feedback page.

I have finished the first in what I hope to be a series of ‘walk-throughs’ for using new technologies in creative ways in our teaching and learning. As many of the creative tools I use are on the Apple Mac platform I thought I would start by introducing users new to Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard) to 10 basic tips. I also hope to create a series of screencasts to accompany the walk-throughs as well as training sessions for those interested in learning more about these tools. Look out for upcoming walk-throughs on podcasting with Garageband 08 and an introduction to blogging using Edublogs.

To download this walkthrough as a pdf file click on the following link:

10basicMactipsv4.pdf

You can also access an online version of the document here