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May 2007 - Posts

Links for Blogs as a Teaching Tool in a Tertiary Institution Presentation

Internet access has been scarce, so I haven't been able to blog the conference. I'll update with a summary post once I'm back. In the mean time, I've posted the presentation slides and listed the links highlighted in my presentation for easy reference Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 22, 2007 11:43 PM by Kenneth Gerard PINTO | 2 Comments
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In Brunei for the 12th International Conference on Education

I just arrived about two hours ago in Brunei for the 12th International Conference on Education 2007 . It turns out that I have wireless access at the hotel (thanks to the spa one level below my room). I hope that I'll be similarly connected at the conference Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 20, 2007 5:58 PM by Kenneth Gerard PINTO | 0 Comments
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Your bibliography online at BibMe.org

Lifehacker featured a nifty online tool - BibMe - which lets you add sources, auto-creates entries in various formats (APA, MLA, Chicago), and enables you to save and export your entries. I registered for an account, which says you can store up to 20 Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 16, 2007 11:06 AM by Kenneth Gerard PINTO | 0 Comments

Latest IDEAS

The latest issue of IDEAS is out now. In this issue we: highlight Web 2.0 and how it impacts education , provide important information about the IVLE upgrade , give a preview of Respondus - an offline assessment authoring tool, call for your contributions Read More...
Posted Monday, May 14, 2007 12:28 PM by Kenneth Gerard PINTO | 0 Comments

That Orange Button or What can RSS do for me?

You must have seen That Orange Button . It's everywhere. Sometimes, it has RSS written on it. Sometimes, XML. Sometimes, it looks like this: What exactly does it do? Well, let the good people at CommonCraft help to demystify That Orange Button in this Read More...
Posted Friday, May 11, 2007 2:39 PM by Kenneth Gerard PINTO | 0 Comments
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Student blogs get article writer's attention

Christopher Fahey, "an artist, designer, teacher, and captain of industry", noticed that one of his online articles was required reading in Raghavendra Reddy's NM4210 User Experience Design module. Fahey notes : In browsing the official site for the course Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 03, 2007 9:31 AM by Kenneth Gerard PINTO | 0 Comments

April Statistics

The students are having their exams and you might already be marking papers. That means that April has just passed us by. Let's have a look at the module blogs statistics for April. Posting activity has decreased slightly. Despite fewer posts, each of Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 02, 2007 3:12 PM by Kenneth Gerard PINTO | 0 Comments
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