Atomic Learning

 

 The college has access to the Atomic Learning site, which is a great tool for short video tutorials for teaching or CPD.

“Atomic Learning provides web-based software training and curriculum resources for more than 110 applications learners and educators use every day. Our just-in-time approach focuses on answering the common questions people have when learning popular software packages.

Atomic Learning provides thousands of short, easy-to-understand tutorial movies and a library of curriculum resources that can be used as an integral part of a professional development programme, a valuable curriculum supplement, and an anytime/anywhere software training resource.”

Have a look at the ‘Getting Started’ guide here.

For get login details for Atomic Learning, contact library or LTC staff. library@perth.uhi.ac.uk

donald.maclean@perth.uhi.ac.uk

 

Research Tool: Zotero

Zotero is a freely available browser extension for Firefox that allows users to collect, manage and cite their research sources.

It integrates tightly with online resources and helps users locate and save the full reference information for the source. While it has too many features to list here, it also allows the storage of PDFs, files, images, links and whole web pages.

It works with Firefox, but not IE7.

JISCMail

JISCMail  is a great way to keep up to date with developments in tertiary education. You can subscribe to mailing lists by academic subject, or sign up for information about library and information services or pedagogical issues.

It is advisable when signing up to specify how you want information to be sent to you. You can usually choose to visit the mailing list yourself, or get sent a weekly update. Daily updates or real time updates are not to be recommended, as they can get a bit busy.

Amazon Listmania!

Alan Scott (Creative Industries, Goodlyburn) has started using Amazon Listmania to list books he recommends for student use, and also highlighting those that are available in Perth College Library.
Which is a seriously good idea!
You can visit Alan’s list spot on Amazon here.

Students can check the availability of titles in the library on the Millennium catalogue, and they can access their own records and renew books once they’ve borrowed them.

TeacherTube

Often, if you want a short video clip on a common topic, the chances are that it already exists out there. YouTube is always worth a search as is TeacherTube which is obviously a little more specialised.

If you find something you want, you can usually embed it in a web or blog page, or in your VLE, like the clip below from TeacherTube. Embedding it has the advantage that you will have no copyright worries, as you are embedding (hosting) rather than copying the content. Unless the original content is suspect, of course: common sense is required. On the downside, the owner might delete the content without notice.

The video below is about learning styles. Click on the play icon to view it.
from www.teachertube.com posted with vodpod

Learning Online: Student Perspective

What can a student expect from their online learning experience?

Hints, tips and advice for students from Salve Regina University.

Using Discussion Boards

A short and sweet article from William J Allen (Arkansas State University) about building online communities using the discussion board.

Accessibility & Inclusion

First entry on the blogroll is for a splendid website from JISC RSC Scotland, looking at accessibility and inclusion issues. Site includes links to free and commercial software, guides, training materials and anything of interest to the online tutor.

Much that is useful, and a good site for keeping abreast of accessibility and inclusion issues.