Archive for January, 2007
Instructional Blogging Best Practices and Case Studies
Learning Technologies Center, Learning Technologies Center.
Great resource on the myriad ways in which blogs can be used in the educational context. The site is divided into specific sections each dealing with a given use. The section as short, concise but provide enough detailing through illustrating by case study. I’ve listed the main uses below , [...]
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‘Second Life’ develops education following
I know another article on Second Life. It seems to be all the rage in the media at the moment. I’ll be posting about other elearning issues next week.
Anyway this is a shortish article on Second Life and a very good intro if you haven’t heard f it before or need to know a few [...]
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Distributed video learning and teaching examples
As part of putting together some slides on youTube I had a good look for teaching and learning examples on youTube. They’re very few and far between. And given the sheer amount of videos on there (and hence rubbish) hard to find by searching by category. The reason they’re are rare, particularly in terms of [...]
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The rise of distributed video and vodcasting
As predicted in 2005 (which in itself saw the rise of social networking and user generated content sites) 2006 saw a vast increase in video sharing, most noticeably youTube (www.youtube.com) . The fact that anyone can upload a video for others to then share, embed within websites (including blogs) and comment on has created a [...]
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My Second Life
Interesting blog entry by Jeff VanDrimmelen ((University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) on explorations in Second Life. He mentions EduNation, (”I joined several Education centered groups and even went to a couple of online meetings.”). I haven’t found them yet but will have a look round later tonight. I’ve been to a few virtual [...]
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Second Life: It’s not a game
By David Kirkpatrick
Interesting article about Second Life from the perspective of enterprise culture.
“This virtual world – don’t call it a game – has become a phenomenon: Second Life, which is free for casual use, has about 334,000 regular visitors. More than 2.6 million have checked it out, a figure that in mid-January was growing by [...]
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New slides on youTube and Second Life
have recently put together some slides on distributed video (mainly youTube) and virtual worlds (Second Life). They’re not very detailed and do not fully explore teaching and learning issues. However I have included many examples for users to look at.
you-need-to-know-about-dist-video.ppt
you-need-to-know-about-second-life.ppt
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Proceedings of JISC online e-learning conference published
Taken from the JISC website.
By philippothen
“The proceedings of the 2006 JISC Online Conference Innovating e-Learning 2006: Transforming Learning Experiences were published today as freely available e-books.
Theconference, based around themes of work in the Pedagogy and Innovation strands of the JISC e-Learning Programme, took place in March 2006 in an asynchronous online conferencing environment, bringing together [...]
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Second Life learning at Harvard Law School’s Austin Hall
I’m slowly exploring a list top 20 educational locations in second life, (list).
Currently I’m at Harvard Law School’s Austin Hall.
As you can see from the video I can scroll through slides. Other areas allow you to launch websites, watch streamed video, listen to podcasted talks.
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The best of the blogs
Guardian coverage of the 3rd Annual Edublogs awards. The awards are becoming increasingly well known.
The top awards were:
Best teacher blog went to “Have Fun with English! 2″ (fwe2.motime.com) by tutor Teresa Almeida d’Eça. The blog aims to “help students practice their English outside class and communicate with teachers and peers globally.”
Best Group Blog went [...]
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