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EDU's Researcher Wins Prize for Research on International Students

Dominik Lukes — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 07:53:55 +0000

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How to use the Zoom H2 for recording interviews, podcasts and lectures

Dominik Lukes — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:10:36 +0100

This video explains in detail how to make the most of the Zoom H2 available at the school for recording interviews or lectures for podcast or research purposes.

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Prize for young researchers announced

Dominik Lukes — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:33:15 +0100

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PCE2008: World Conference for Person-Centred and Experiential Psychotherapy and Counselling

Dominik Lukes — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:46:12 +0100

Location

UEA

Event website

Event description

From the conference website:

World Conference for Person-Centred and Experiential Psychotherapy and Counselling: PCE2008 Conference Theme

Equal Opportunities International Conference

Dominik Lukes — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:35:33 +0100

Location

UEA

Event website

Event description

The inaugural Equal Opportunities International conference will be held from 1-3 July, 2008, at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. The conference will provide an international platform for exchange of knowledge across all strands of equality, diversity and inclusion at work. The first conference is organised

Procedural seminar: "Self regulated learning strategies and the growth of mathematical understanding"

Dominik Lukes — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:30:46 +0100

Location

1.40 EDU

Event website

Event description

Faizal Abdullah will be giving a Procedural Seminar on Tuesday 24th June at 2pm in Room 1.40. The title is "Self regulated learning strategies and the growth of mathematical understanding."

Two research post vacancies announced in education and Web 3.0

Dominik Lukes — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:38:58 +0100

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How to use the scanner feature of the photocopier

Dominik Lukes — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:40:19 +0100

The new photopier in the CARE area has a great scanning feature which basically means that anything that can be photocopied can be scanned into a computer. The easiest way is to have the photocopy sent to your email address. All you have to do is enter your email into the photocopier and the rest is the same as making photocopies. This video shows how to do it.

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UEA Library Catalogue now supports Zotero for easy bibliography collation

Dominik Lukes — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:47:48 +0100

Great news for anybody out there who's using the free bibliography too

l Zotero! With what I'm assuming was a small upgrade to the catalogue software, Zotero can now see results on the page of the catalogue and import them into the bibliography with just one click (individually or as a group).

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Edupunk against Blackboard, for eLearning 2.0, and what next?

Dominik Lukes — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:33:03 +0100

A new term has made its way into the edu blogosphere (such as it is): edupunk. Coined by Jim Groom, it made its way to me via Martin Weller's blog who also shared the excellent Edupunk video (see below). Edupunk spoke eloquent volumes of its potential to me the second I scanned over the word my RSS reader - in fact it got me so excited I started a public Google Notebook with excerpts from the discussion. I believe that destructivism and contrariness are just as necessary parts of the debate as constructiveness and concilliation. So, edupunk is more than welcome on the scene. Let's hope it gets a bit more traction - the Wikipedia entry may help.

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Who and how of innovation in educational technology

Dominik Lukes — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:17:58 +0100

A very interesting article that asks all the right questions about current trends in educational technology innovation. It implies the central problem which is the essential conflict of interest at the heart of institutional IT services: 1. keep the services running, 2. provide the best available technology to the institution. But 1. is in conflict with 2. IT services get blamed when printers stop working or email goes down so naturally they will prefer to stick to maintaining these basic infrastructures rather than try to innovate.

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Open Source gaining traction in e-learning markets

Dominik Lukes — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:05:01 +0100

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EDU Web Clinic 6

Dominik Lukes — Tue, 27 May 2008 13:03:46 +0100

Location

Meeting Room Next to New Student Space

Event website

Event description

What: An opportunity for anyone to come and ask questions about how to best use the web for research. Individuals or small groups are welcome. Feel free to just drop in or alternatively sign up below.

EDU Web Clinic 5

Dominik Lukes — Fri, 16 May 2008 13:37:06 +0100

Location

Meeting Room Next to New Student Space

Event website

Event description

EDU Informal Seminar - Prof. Pat Thompson - "Hearing students’ views on and in school change: ‘creativity’ and ‘voice/s’"

Lyndon Martin — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:00:46 +0100

Location

EDU 1.40

Event website

Event description

The Creative School Change Project, funded by Arts Council England, and directed by Ken Jones (Keele) and Pat Thomson (Nottingham) is investigating the ways in which schools have taken up the cultural offer made by Creative Partnerships (CP) to further ‘whole school change’ (see Thomson, 2007 for discussion).

Information for upgrading from MPhil to PhD status

Lyndon Martin — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:12:44 +0100

_{The document attached provides information about the process of upgrade from MPhil to PhD status in the School.}

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EDU Informal Seminar - Dr Teresa Belton - "What on Earth is the Global Fitness Framework?"

Lyndon Martin — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:23:20 +0100

Location

EDU 1.40

Event website

Event description

In this seminar Teresa Belton will explain the concepts of the Global Fitness Framework and Global Leadership and how they were explored at a recent international conference at Anglia Ruskin University.

EDU research on boredom and schooling written up in TES

Dominik Lukes — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:08:23 +0100

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Research Student Seminar: Procedural paper by Monika Oledzka-Nielson

Anna Robinson-Pant — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:37:03 +0100

Location

EDU 1.40

Event website

Event description

Research Student Seminar: Monika Oledzka-Nielson on Gender violence and schooling in Mozambique (procedural paper)

Who's afraid of Google search?

Dominik Lukes — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:36:54 +0100

An interesting discussion was sparked by an article in the Guardian about the problems with Google search.

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Animoto free for teachers

Dominik Lukes — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:06:24 +0100

All that Animoto does is turn pictures and music into slideshows. The people at Animoto are interested in finding out how educators could make the most of their service so they are offering free access to entire classrooms. (Animoto is only free for up to 30 seconds.)

Hand Held Computers Project

Web Clinic 4 - NOTE TIME CHANGE

Dominik Lukes — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:10:44 +0100

Location

Meeting Room Next to Student Space

Event website

Event description

Adam Longcroft on Future Radio talking about local place names

Dominik Lukes — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:32:23 +0100

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Britannica opens up (a little)

Dominik Lukes — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:03:58 +0100

IT Group

DCSF Select Committee Inquiry into the National Curriculum

John Elliott — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:52:42 +0100

I have recently coordinated the submission from the Curriculum Aims sub-group of the New Vision Group (NVG), a national think-tank. It is posted here for the purpose of eliciting comment and discussion.

Philosophy of Education Seminar Programme

EDU Web Clinic 3

Dominik Lukes — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:53:12 +0100

Location

Meeting Room Next to Student Space

Event website

Event description

EDU Web Clinic 2

Dominik Lukes — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:45:56 +0100

Location

Meeting Room Next to Student Space

Event website

Event description

Announcing the second Web Clinic:

Wikipedia Wars: Language Log Takes on Times Higher, Again, and Wins!

Dominik Lukes — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 10:09:50 +0000

The US-based Language Log takes issue with the following remark in a column in Times Higher disparaging Wikipedia:

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Google Tip 5: Using 'OR'

Dominik Lukes — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:12:48 +0000

This short tip shows you how to find results for multiple search terms that may not appear in the document together.

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Key tools for living on the new Web

Dominik Lukes — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:02:36 +0000

Here's a useful listing of the 'bare' essentials for living on the new Web, called Web2.0 by one of the prominent trackers of new developments, Duncan Riley.

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Suggested uses of YouTube for learning?

Dominik Lukes — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:34:42 +0000

Here's an interesting example of the use of YouTube as both object and medium of study. YouTube is somehow seen as not serious but when I needed to figure out how to use a new video editing program, that's where I went. Here are a few other ways in which YouTube has been very helpful to me in just the last month:

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Research Student Space: Video Guide

Dominik Lukes — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:22:00 +0000

Research Students at EDU have a new real-live workspace available to them now. Dominik Lukeš takes you on a brief tour of the old and the new space at the School of Education. You will also hear from Rob Walker, Director of CARE, and Waheed Hammad, a research students, what they think abou the new space.

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Literacy and Development Group Annual Report Now Available

Anna Robinson-Pant — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:19:13 +0000

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EDUCast How-To: Changing Account Settings

Dominik Lukes — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:55:17 +0000

This screencast shows you how to change your email address, password, notification settings and more using the My Account page.

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Google Tip 4: Exclude words from search queries

Dominik Lukes — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:48:26 +0000

In this Google Tip, you will find out how to refine your searches by excluding words using the '-' (minus) sign.

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EDUCast Video: John Elliott on Action Research

Dominik Lukes — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:17:41 +0000

This is an interview with Professor John Elliott about Action Research recorded for the 'Teacher Inquiry: An International Perspective' DVD produced by The University of British Columbia. Reproduced by permission. Interviewer is Christine O'Hanlon.

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UC Berkley Lecture: On Search Engines

Dominik Lukes — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:26:33 +0000

This is not a screencast but it is an important lecture about searches and search engines! It offers many examples of users' difficulties with searching. It is aimed people designing search systems but can be equally useful to inquisitive search engine users who wish to expand their set of searching strategies. It was delivered in 2005 so it's a bit out of date on a few things but most of the important points still hold.

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EDU Web Clinic

Dominik Lukes — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:23:51 +0000

Location

Meeting Room Next to Student Space

Event website

Event description

Announcing the first Web Clinic:

EDUCast Video: Rob Walker on Action Research

Dominik Lukes — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:32:53 +0000

This is an interview with Professor Rob Walker about Action Research recorded for the 'Teacher Inquiry: An International Perspective' DVD produced by The University of British Columbia. Reproduced by permission

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Google Tip 3: Search for exact phrases

Dominik Lukes — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:11:58 +0000

In this screencast you'll find out how to use the "quotation marks"to search for exact phrases.

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EDUCast How-To: Inserting Links, Files, Images, YouTube Clips into Text

Dominik Lukes — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:02:30 +0000

In this screencast you can find out how to insert links, files, images and YouTube clips using the rich text editor.

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EDUCast How-To: Formatting Text Using Rich-Text Editor

Dominik Lukes — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:08:21 +0000

This screencast shows you how to:

Make text bold, italicised or struck-through
Make bulletted or numbered lists
Use indentation to quotet text
Use indentation to make sub-lists
Use keyboard shortcuts
Use styles to format section headings
Paste text form Word or other webpages using the Paste-from-Word button
Get a quick preview of how to create links and insert images
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EDUCast How-To: Creating a Blog Post

Dominik Lukes — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:00:26 +0000

This screencast shows you how to:

Start a blog post
Quote text
Tag your blog
Start or contribute to a blog project
Add your post to a group
Make your post private, ie. visible only to members of a certain group
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EDUCast How-To: Login, logout, request new password and keep logged in

Dominik Lukes — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:34:37 +0000

This screencast shows you how to

log in,
log out,
request new password and
keep logged in.

Use the tags on the screencast to move to different sections.

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Google Tip: Search for definitions

Dominik Lukes — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:53:30 +0000

Second tip for more efficient use of Google: Put 'define' before a search term to see if there are any definitions of it on the web.

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Screencast: How to add news from this website to the Portal

Dominik Lukes — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:12:16 +0000

For those using the Portal to get their UEA news, you can get the latest from this web by following the same procedure as described in the following video for PG Oracle. All the important news feeds from this site are included. Thanks to CSED for recording this video.

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Digital Ethnography: Visual answers, textual questions

Dominik Lukes — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:25:30 +0000

Digital ethnography seems to be on everyone's lips these days but what is it? A year ago Mike Wesh of Kansas State University tried to lay some foundations to where we might look with his 'new media' excursus into Web2.0:

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EDUCast: Interview with Yann Lebeau

Dominik Lukes — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:33:04 +0000

Dominik Lukeš interviews CARE researcher Yann Lebeau about his journey into CARE, his recent and current projects and his plans for the future including subjects he's interested in supervising or cooperating on with other scholars.

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Prof Rob Walker discusses museums of the future on Future Radio

Dominik Lukes — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 19:11:37 +0000

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EDUCast Lecture: Morwenna Griffiths: Autobiographical Research

Dominik Lukes — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:24:57 +0000

Audio of a lecture "Evidence-informed policies and auto/biographical research" by Professor Morwenna Griffiths (University of Edinburgh).

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