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Using a Chromebook for academic work

May 19, 2015

in Mobile, Technology

academia, chromebook, laptop, mobile

I’ve been thinking about getting a Chromebook as a cheaper laptop alternative, especially since I use Google apps and services extensively. While I was initially sceptical about a browser-based operating system (i.e. ChromeOS), I’ve heard good things about Chromebooks and so I was pretty excited to be offered a demo model from Google Education to try it out. The…
T&L seminar with UCT Law Faculty

Jul 18, 2014

in Learning, Workshop

Alan Rycroft, Anton Fagan, authentic learning, che, council on higher education, Geo Quinot, Google Drive, laptop, Memory, QEP, quality enhancement project, Recall, UCT Law Faculty, university of cape town

Earlier this year I was invited by Alan Rycroft at the UCT Law Faculty to give a presentation at a seminar on T&L. The seminar took place yesterday and I presented some research that I did in 2012 where we used Google Drive as an implementation platform for authentic learning. I’ve written about authentic learning before,…