Simon’s Physics Education Blog

http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/lds/podcasting.html#Benefits (5.5.2006)
Related Websites
http://mgsonline.blogs.com/mgspodcast/ (5.52006)
podcasting at Musselburgh Grammar School
http://www.darcynorman.net/2004/10/30/podcasting-for-education (5.5.2006)
ideas about educational uses for podcasting and discussion
http://www.recap.ltd.uk/articles/podguide.html (5.5.2006)
educational podcasting ideas, aimed at school students, but techniques appear possible for university as well
http://epnweb.org/ (5.5.2006)
interesting resources and podcasts available (though “‘healthful’ living” sounds a little scary to me …)
http://www.learningcircuits.org/2005/jun2005/0506_trends (5.5.2006)
another interesting collection of ideas for educational podcasts use
http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/lds/documents/podcasting_ideas.pdf [...]

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For some time I have been toying with the idea of using podcasts as a way to support
student self study time. In collaboration with Divinity, we put together a bit to PeLF
which was not funded. However, a reduced project will go forward to provide proof-of-
concept with a view to resubmitting next year and hopefully being [...]

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Notes taken from TLA Colloquim on preparing Tutors and Demonstrators for their teaching and academic roles at University, 19th June 2006.
Michelle Marincovich, director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Stanford

Outlined Stanford model of requirement to train TAs in general pedagogy (done centrally) and preparing to teach in their discipline (subject based, conceptual problems, [...]

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A colleague of mine often responds to discussions of the benefits of e-learning to students with the comment:
“ … but how can you show quantitatively that it does any good? “
It’s a fair question and one that I have found myself struggling to answer in the past. There’s a number of inherent problems with trying to [...]

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So what do you call a b log entry written on the move …? An m-blog…. I am suresomeone knows.
Well, just because I can, I thought I would give this a go. Currently on a train just outside Newcastle….but the power socket under my chair which allegedly gives my machine juice is refusing to give me [...]

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So why did I bother starting this blog?
Well, for a start, I have a web page that is massively out of date that I just never seem to get arond to updating these days. So eventually, this might just supercede this…. who knows…
If you want to see just how bad that is, you can find [...]

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I am a Senior Lecturer in the School of Physics at the University in Edinburgh. I teach a large first year undergraduate course, the development of which is one of the main reasons for wanting to create this blog.

I am getting slightly better pictures taken as time goes on (matter of opinion: this one has [...]

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