Archive for October, 2006
Using blogs to build learning communities
Sally Graham, Joy Jarvis together with other staff from the School of Education have been encouraging their students to develop peer-based social networks. One of the best features of blogging is that it allows readers to comment on each others blog entry. The comments can be very supportive, insightful and serve to extend the topic [...]
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Blogging in learning support
Have been talking to Lynn Bhania who is starting to use blogs to support her students. In her own words:
“I have also introduced it my Foundation Degree students. These are a small group of teaching assistants who are doing the Foundation Degree in Learning Support. They are all mature women and have had a steep [...]
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Using blogs to provide work based project support
At the University of Hertfordshire staff are increasingly starting to use blogs as part of their teaching.
Russell Preston and staff at West Herts College have been using universitys’ MLE (StudyNet) blogs to support student project work. In his own words:
“We have 75 students set up to do Blogging for the Year 2 Foundation Degree Business/IT
The [...]
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K-12 Online Conference 2006…
…is currently happening..er… online. A lot of interesting articles (many as audio) on the is use of forums, blogs and wikis in the school sector. I’m currently working through the keynote by David Warlick who states:
“Information doesn’t travel in a straight road any more – you could listen to an audio file as a podcast [...]
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Fantastic talk on blogs, wikis, social network, forums and tagging
I’ve created a transcript of a fantastic talk on using social software, such as wikis, blogs, online forums and RSS to help people connect with each other learn from each other. Particular emphasis is given to managing information overload.
The talk was given by Euan Semple (formerly of the BBC) who was responsible for (successfully) encouraging [...]
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The educational benefits of podcasting
The attached audio file looks at the benefits of podcasting. More audio files are on the way which look at how podcasting works, the challenges and examples and case studies.
If you agree or disagree with the content of these files or would like to raise additional issues. Please do so. Either use the comments facility [...]
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Pre recording podcast exercise
Have just finished creating a podcast for my talk on podcasts. Rather than use a digitl voice recorder I used Audacity instead. Audacity is a free recording and editing software which you can download from the web (just enter Audacity in Google). IT was a bit clunky to use but not bad considering it was [...]
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106 staff and counting
106 members of staff have now attended my demystification talk on blogs, wikis and podcasting. Another 2 planned sessions are fully booked (48 staff).
The talks have gone down really well which is surprising considering how much I pack into the session. I also include RSS and where possible social tagging, plus a healthy dose of [...]
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Stephen Downes: School 2.0, Flickr
Stephens Downes vision of School 2.0 in which wi-fi and the community plays a large part.
Click here
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Wiki guidelines
I’m part of the University of Hertfordshires’ Blended Learning Unit. Part of my role involves investigating the pedagogical benefits and uses of social elearning software such as blogs, wikis and forums.
I’ve just started to work on wiki guidelines. The guidelines will cover definitions, teaching and learning benefits, challenges, examples and how to use. If you’d [...]
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