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admin wrote a new post, EdLab Project Archive 2015-2019, on the site EdLab MMU 1 month, 1 week ago

EdLab Project ArchiveThis archived site is a record of the manchester met University Faculty of Education edlab project. Active from 2015 to 2000.

admin wrote a new post, Summary of EdLab 2018 – 2019, on the site EdLab MMU 1 month, 1 week ago

From 2017 EdLab was integrated into the Faculty’s programme and is now led by a variety of staff and external partners, most of our updates have moved to other project blogs. Here are descriptions and blogs where […]

admin wrote a new post, Screencast to promote questioning, on the site Clearerchannel 6 years, 1 month ago

Transcript
This video is to help you to fix bugs in your software.
So we’ve been doing block coding with Blockly and it’s all great.
It’s all good fun making a […]

admin wrote a new post, Booktype & "eBooks: the learning platform of the future?" at Cetis, on the site Clearerchannel 6 years, 8 months ago

I gave a presentation on how FLOSS Manuals uses Booktype and ePubs at a discussion panel at the Cetis 2014 conference. Here is Wilbert’s write up of the panel. When does a book become a web platform. This links to a lot of the work Adam Hyde has done around advocating for the use of epubs.

I also formulated a bit of an argument around epubs and OER (Open educational resources) which is posted as part of an email discussion on the Open Education email list here.

It’s a bit simplistic but here’s the essential argument. (excuse the ACRONYMS google is your friend here)

most OER are shared by the person / team that writes them
online courses, Moocs, OER repositories are increasingly the place where OER are collaboratively written using blog type, wysiswyg tools which output HTML pages
format specs like Scorm and metadata standards like LOM are too hard for self publishers to use
epubs are the most suitable candidate to allow importing and exporting of OER into these platform allowing us the freedom to exit and remix between repositories
EDUPUB is in danger of bringing a lot of complexity to the equation and hindering uptake
let’s not get hung up on interactivity – let’s get the workflow working with simple epubs first and use the web coding principle of “progressive enhancement” to bring more interactivity to OER
exported ePubs work well on mobile devices (just saying)
ePubs – all the way – let’s advocate for all VLEs, MOOCs, Blogs etc to accept import and export of ePubs

Here are some quick links for the content mentioned in the presentation and discussion at the Cetis 2014 conference.

Presentation on Booktype given at Cetis 2014
Lorna’s write up of the OER Booksprint
Open Video Workbook: a course sprint on an old fishing trawler
Workshop at UCL on academic use of Booktype
Mozilla Webmaker – Mick’s ePub series:

Pt 1 – Create epubs from web pages
Pt 2 – Explore and embed a video into an epub
Pt 3 – Remix and reuse epubs with online editors

Tools

Booktype at Sourcefabric
Pressbooks
Grab my Books – firefox plugin
Calibre- epub editor
Video on Booktype

Booktype, the open source publishing platform. from Sourcefabric on Vimeo.

admin wrote a new post, Quick Links for Info-Activism Tools and Techniques, on the site Clearerchannel 6 years, 11 months ago

I’ve done work for Tactical Tech for their tool kit on information activism. They do a great job of presenting the list of tools in an interactive way. Most of these links point to their work with […]

admin wrote a new post, Free Cake & Learn to Encrypt Email & Data (and browse the web without being tracked), on the site Clearerchannel 7 years, 3 months ago

“For Normal Privacy Please Encrypt Your Data”
Saturday 7th December – Mad Lab 36-40 Edge Street, Manchester M4 1HN
(Between Thomas St and the Craft Centre, opposite A Bar Called Common)

1.30pm – Free […]

admin wrote a new post, Summary of the Artists Do IT course, on the site Artists Do I.T. 7 years, 5 months ago

Do I.T. is a digital media training course equipping artists and creatives with the skills to develop their online profile and presence. The pilot scheme this year for Do I.T. took place at Community Arts North […]

admin wrote a new post, More Video Work at Salford Social Media Centre, on the site Clearerchannel 7 years, 5 months ago

admin wrote a new post, Media Youth Work at Social Media Centre Salford, on the site Clearerchannel 7 years, 5 months ago

By Mick:

While I was running the Social Media Centre in Salford with PVM, I had a lot of fun working with young people to make videos, radio programmes and website. We took on quite a few young people for work […]

admin wrote a new post, My Photo Gallery of Artists Do It Video day, on the site BLOGGO 7 years, 5 months ago

Gallery of the Video production day. Thanks to Richard for a great insight on how to make it as a video production company working in the Arts.

admin wrote a new post, Video editing with Kdenlive, on the site Artists Do I.T. 7 years, 6 months ago

When you start to look at editing video and getting all the the different formats to work you are entering a world of pain.

This was the helpful advice we started with when introducing video editing as part […]

admin wrote a new post, East Salford Direct TV, on the site Clearerchannel 7 years, 6 months ago

East Salford Direct TV.

admin wrote a new post, Digital Diaries – The Right to Stay, on the site Clearerchannel 7 years, 6 months ago

Digital Diaries: Produced by Community Arts North West
(CAN) in conjunction with the Basement social centre.
Local film makers have teamed up with people facing
deportation to tell the untold stories behind […]

admin wrote a new post, Photo Gallery of BarnCamp 2013 – rural hacklab, on the site Clearerchannel 7 years, 6 months ago

Images by Charlie Harvey

admin wrote a new post, Video Presentations of Collaborative Workshops course, on the site Clearerchannel 7 years, 6 months ago

One of the aspects of doing the p2pu.org course on Designing Collabortive Workshops course was the ability to watch and take part in any of three presentations / seminars online.
I really want to thank the […]

admin wrote a new post, Firefox in a Nutshell and Etherpad Manuals in English and Farsi, on the site Clearerchannel 7 years, 6 months ago

We are happy to announce new manuals in FLOSS Manuals that have also been translated into Farsi for the Internews Europe, Human Rights Connect project.

The first is a summary of Firefox with a focus […]

admin wrote a new post, Mcrblogs.co.uk – new blogging platform for Manchester groups, on the site Clearerchannel 7 years, 6 months ago

As part of the Artists do I.T. course we have set up a platform for blogs and websites at mcrblogs.co.uk

Mcr Blogs is set up to promote local group, individuals and campaigns to promote their work and […]

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