At an eCPD training day yesterday we were introduced to some e-learning tools. Two of them we have already - the Flip Videos and Olympus Voice Recorders - both of which are proving popular with tutors and examples of their use can be found on the blog.
One of the new items was the Creative Zen portable media player. This is very similar to the iPod range of products but prices begin at around £70 for a reasonable screen size.
As well as being shown the equipment we were given a link showing a simple revision quiz for use on this equipment. Click here for a video showing how to create the quizzes which can also be used on mobile phones. The suggestion is that learners create resources for these media players as part of their learning activity - and they could also be added to our Moodle site (which will be available soon) to be shared with other tutors and learners.
There are a range of ready made video clips available on VideoJug - arranged in categories - for example this selection is for Yoga and Pilates. Videos can also be found on Mole TV - see here for the language videos.
If anyone thinks these tools could be used to enhance teaching and learning (and particularly for use as an assessment tool using the quizzes) please let me know and I will put forward a case for purchasing some. I did something similar with PDAs (personal digitial assistants) a few years ago and they went down really well with learners in a family learning cookery class - where they were used to assess their knowledge of health and safety in the kitchen and healthy eating guidelines. The advantage of these players is their cost in comparison to a PDA which has many other features we might not use.
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