Nia Wearn's Research & Tech for Teaching

One of the coolect ideas from the last Teachnology Supported Learning Showcase was the Creative Communities bottle voting system – if you can call skittles a technology I suppose – anyway, this year for 2A2B we asked them to make kickstarter pitch videos.

One thing I wanted was a very quick response to find out how successful the pitches had been - and since we were holding it in the Red Lecture Theater an online Google Doc form or a Facebook poll wouldn’t have worked. In the past we’ve used paper to hold a popular vote but that’s had it’s own issues when you scale it up to 100′s of people…

So, in a a slightly more dawn markets style, we did marbles-and-plastic-pint-glass voting

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ProfHacker is one of my most read, and recommended blogs on this kind of thing (whatever it really is that I try and cover on this blog) – Every month or so they pull together recent posts and sort them into categories - great if you’ve missed something in the white noise that is your (well my) Google Reader…

http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/teaching-carnival-5-09/39739

Bobbie, Yvan  and I have returned from the 3rd Project meeting for the Able Project into Distance Learning and ICT. It was lovely and warm and Evora, in Portugal was stunning.

A copy of the presentation is here

You can see lots of pretty pictures of Evora, and some of Lisbon in the Flickr Photostream - but by far my favorite is is :

You can read the 1st Newsletter from the Able Project here

(It has more sensible pictures)

The project is now also on Twitter & Facebook