Archive for October, 2007
Is text-only enough for today’s students?
An interesting post by Vicki A. Davis on the Cool Cat Teacher Blog.
Basically, in terms of teaching students how to tell stories she asks if text is enough.
“So, I ask, is text enough? I believe we should encourage students to select the best mode of communicating their topic. And that students should be familiar with […]
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UC Berkeley YouTube Lectures
As the title suggests UC Berkeley has created an official presence on YouTube. The university has begun placing entire course lectures on the site (approx 200 so far). They do vary in quality and in particular are not polished in terms of content, i.e. a lot of housekeeping messages. It’s interesting to see that none […]
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My class notes wiki
A recent post by Vicki A. Davis on the Cool Cat Teacher Blog relates to a nice example of using wikis.
Bascially shoe uses the wiki to focus her classroom actvivity ( a wiki centric classroom as she refers to them). She’s created a standard template on which she records weeks current activity with headings such […]
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K12 Online Conference 2007…
…begins in a few hours.
Although aimed at the K12 (primary & secondary) school sector a lot of the case studies and research presented are applicable to the HE context. The strands include Obstacles to Opportunities, New Tools and Classroom 2.0. A wide range of e-learning topics are covered including web 2.0 tools, blogging, copyright and […]
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Teacher as Blogger
Okay Primary Edders, one from the archives. This is a Link to a post on Konrad Glogoskis’s blog. It concerns the subject of tutor feedback on student blogs and on how the tutor, in terms of comment content, needs to bridge the gap between providing ‘feedback as the tutor’ to providing ‘feedback as the co-learner’. […]
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From vlogger to lecturer
A quick heads up about vlogging. YouTube vlogger Blade 376 (aka UH 2nd year Humanities student Myles Dyer) was invited by Sally Graham to come and talk to their first year BEds. Sally wondered “… could I really ask a 20 year old 2nd year Humanities students him to stand up in front of over […]
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Adding stickies to websites
One for you Primary Edders - Tom Barrett over at ICT in My Classroom has posted another interesting entry. Tom is basically a teacher in the front line of primary education and through the course of teaching makes use of a variety of technology. From reading his blog on a regular basis you get a […]
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Harnessing Technology: Learning in the 21st century: Call to action
Becta have issues a call to action for harnessing technology in 21st Century learning. The action introduces ’s a series of policy seminars, sets out the background and process, and the overall objectives. I’m a little late in posting this since the policy seminars are due to start shortly, (full list here. The national conference […]
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Interactive Google Maps
Increasingly in my spare time I’m playing around with Google Maps. Last night I decided to plot primary school blogs sites on a a google map. So you can have an interactive map with areas you can click on for more info. As you can see from below you can then embed it within your […]
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Learning to be myself
Basically an alert to Konrad Glogowski’s latest posting on the Blog of Proximal Development.
Basically he’s reflecting on his current and future role as part of a class blog (he teaches secondary school age children). He’s trying to be less of the teacher/expert role and more of the co-learner - part of the class blog community.
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