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Entries from August 2009

Distribute This: online identity, presence & practice

August 25th, 2009 · 8 Comments

If you are attending ALT-C 2009 in Manchester, please think about coming along to our workshop at 9 a.m. the morning after the Conference dinner (yes, it will be worth the early start). Also if you can bring your own laptop or mobile with internet, we are promised good Wifi.
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Tags: ALT-C 2008 · ALT-C 2009

Integrating online reference management and plagiarism diagnostic tools/services

August 14th, 2009 · No Comments

This is an account of my test of integrating Safe Assign (that we are using as a student-centred plagiarism diagnostic tool at Salford) with Endnoteweb,  a web-based version of Endnote bibliographic software that enables users to create their own online databases of references, then use the tool to include correctly styledcitations and reference lists in [...]

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Tags: Information Systems · Learning Technology · Practice

Emerging technologies: medium and messages

August 4th, 2009 · 6 Comments

Marshall McLuhan’s statement “the medium is the message” is interpreted as encouraging us to notice changes that accompany a new medium, in order to shape the development of the innovation and use it effectively (Federman, 2004). Such an approach is suited to our challenge: to develop and deliver an undergraduate module called Emerging Technologies to 450 students across eight different degree subjects in a United Kingdom Business School.

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Tags: ALT · Learning Technology