Archive for February, 2008
Top Seven E-Learning Technologies & Trends for 2008
I’ve noticed that a great many of these lists seem to hover around the 5, 10 or 20 mark so so I thought I’d try for a magnificent 7. And rather than concentrate on actual technology I think it’s worth considering the implications of their use. So in no particular order:
One: Increased use of collaborative […]
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Evaluating Learning Process
University of Hertfordshire’s very own Martina Doolan on evaluating the process of learning. This short video covers the use of wikis in terms of using them to keep a record of the approaches students use during the course of their learning. Martina makes that point that in a traditional context, activities such as group work, […]
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Horizon Report 2008
This year’s Horizon Report is now out and it’s an absolute belter.
The report is produced through collaboration of the New Media Consortium (NMC), which is an international not-for-profit consortium of nearly 250 learning-focused organizations “dedicated to the exploration and use of new media and new technologies.”, (for more info click here) and the EDUCAUSE Learning […]
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Educational uses for Tag Clouds
Well most of them are educational anyway. As promised here’s a summary of some of the ideas you’ve forwarded to me concerning the use of tag clouds in education. Basically this is a list of some of the ‘content; which can be tag clouded to reveal underlying information.
Dissertation and essay summaries: I created a […]
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Twitter in teaching and learning part 3
Okay third and final part.
Darren Rowse lists 9 Benefits of Twitter for Bloggers. He started off using Twitter to: improve the quality of his blogs * network with other bloggers *widen his readership * grow his profile and drive traffic to his blogs.
He lists 9 benefits, most of which are marketing oriented but nevertheless can […]
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Twitter in teaching and learning part 2
Storytelling: Tom is also participating in the @ManyVoices Project (here). Basically this is an ongoing collaborative story being written by 140 different school students across the globe. Each student uses Twitter to write part of the story keeping to the 140 character limit. Once the student has finished their bit another student continues the tale. […]
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Twitter in teaching and learning part 1
Okay so this post started out as a bit of a summary of Twitter (check it out here and the Wikipedia definition here) in terms of classroom use. I’m new to Twitter so it’s essentially a compilation of other peoples experiences / observations, (most of these were found through ‘Around edublogs twittering’ found here). Essentially […]
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The purpose of developing CAL resources
Well this a blast from the past. I was sorting through some old documents the other day and came across a critique I had written on the development of CAL (computer aided learning) material during the 1990s. This later formed part of my PhD thesis. This document is only 30 pages or so […]
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Tag Clouds and student assignments
Well I felt I had to do a bit more digging with regards to using tag clouds in education (and general) and I found this post by Pedagogical Gregory (what a name!) Basically he created a tag cloud In order to locate some connections/ patterns in the works of his students. “I randomly selected half […]
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The Networked Teacher
Here’s another image to ponder.
Via by Lorelle Van Fossen (Edublogs Magazine).
The image suggests that todays educators are interconnected with a variety or resources/ methods. Would you say this represents you? Is it overwhelming or just how it is. Or as Fossen suggests “it opens up a whole world of the possible, finding creative inspiration, support, […]
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