Learning with e's

MAY 27, 2011

But are you as good as your last blog? Does yesterday's blog post still hold currency or must you continually press forward to write better, to expand on your ideas and elaborate your understanding of your subject? Old ideas go out of date. Blogging is different. Well, it's yes to both. What do you think?

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Learning with e's

JUNE 14, 2020

Encourage the group to regularly share their ideas, discuss their hopes and concerns, promote their content and celebrate their successes. Promote creative writing using blog challenges such as #Blimage or #TwistedPair as visual prompts (the latter involves unlikely pairings of people to provoke imagination.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 3, 2011

The academic world doesn't tend to value blogging as much as it does formally peer-reviewed publications. I have written about this previously, but need to re-emphasise the true value of blogging. Here are four reasons why the academic community should revise its collective opinion about blogging.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

In a recent blog post, I gave seven reasons why teachers should blog. It was subsequently expanded to 10 good reasons by the contributions from readers - which is actually an eleventh reason why teachers should blog - you get back such great comments, suggestions, arguments and advice, it would be crazy not to share your content.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 15, 2012

Argyll and Bute's attempts to censor a 9 year old blogging about her school dinners backfired spectacularly when they were forced to very publicly retract their original decision. The Argyll and Bute council officials thought that newspaper coverage of the 9 year old's blog was causing catering staff to fear for their jobs.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 30, 2010

Anyone who blogs regularly will have discovered several truths. Many people struggle to maintain a regular blog that is consistently good, or at least meaningful. Although you are only as good as your last blog, all your previously blogs are also out there, archived, published for people to read (and for you to revisit, if you wish).

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 15, 2015

The challenge was simple - you shared an image with a friend (or three) and challenged them to write a short, learning related blog about it. blimage = blog + image. Essentially, they have become more enthused about the practice of sharing their ideas within their community. So let's start a new challenge.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 5, 2012

If you are considering taking up blogging this year, and wondering what it might involve, I would be happy to offer you a few tips from my own experience. I have been blogging for just over 5 years and during that time have learnt a few things. Firstly, blogging can be time consuming. But don't let that put you off - join in.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 29, 2020

It's a Boss RC-3 Loop Station , similar to the one made famous by Ed Sheeran during his live shows (Yes, I know Sheeran uses a more sophisticated set up, but the idea is the same). I put my guitar down and opened up my laptop, and in a few minutes was busily remembering and writing down the lyrics of the songs I had written so many years ago.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 12, 2020

There are many, many ways to do this of course, and in this series of blog posts I will aim to explore a few methods that I have tried with success in engaging my own students. Let's start with collaborative online spaces. Below is an extract from a book chapter I wrote several years ago. Hershey, NY: Information Science Reference.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 11, 2015

Some of the spam comments posted to my blog are amusing. They are almost always posted by 'Anonymous' which seems quite a common name for those sad individuals who spend their time trying to promote their lacklustre or spurious website links on the back of someone else's success. Others are simply baffling. Fathom that one out.

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Mindflash

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Hence the frenzy for the idea of “gamification” over the past few years. The proceedings were captured on the New School of Information Security blog , including details of a talk by Ross Smith, Microsoft’s Director of Test. A post on the Intranet Benchmarking Forum’s blog by Steve Bynghall warns that culture fit is key.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 1, 2014

Thank you to all those who read and commented on my blog post on April 1st. I''m not really going to stop blogging. Hopefully I succeeded - albeit in a tongue in cheek way - to illustrate that blogging is never easy, but it can have great rewards. Others are profoundly affected by harsh comments on their blogs.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 11, 2020

Photo from Pxhere In my previous blog post I remarked that engaging learners can be difficult in any context, but is often harder in online environments. I also mentioned a very useful model that promotes creative, collaboration online writing. From Gunawardena (1995) we get this five phase model. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JULY 20, 2015

I'm always looking for new ideas to promote blogging for teachers. For me and countless others, blogging is a very important part of professional practice, and I have written extensively about its benefits for teachers in articles such as 7 reasons teachers should blo g and The truth about blogging. Unported License.

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TechSmith Camtasia

AUGUST 21, 2014

It’s back-to-school season for most educators and this year, the TechSmith Education team is writing a series of blog posts with some ideas for the classroom. Let’s be honest, writing sub plans takes way more time than writing normal lesson plans. The level of detail needed is difficult to achieve in writing.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 30, 2010

Anyone who blogs regularly will have discovered several truths. Many people struggle to maintain a regular blog that is consistently good, or at least meaningful. Although you are only as good as your last blog, all your previously blogs are also out there, archived, published for people to read (and for you to revisit, if you wish).

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 17, 2015

Hot on the heels of the popular #blimage blog challenge ( See here for almost 200 posts ), where people send each other images and write learning related blogs about them, we now have #blideo. This is a new challenge where people send each other short video clips and challenge each other to write learning related blogs.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 3, 2018

I have often quoted from this site because it offers practical and useful resources and ideas around the use of technology in education, as well as professional development tips for teachers and a regular podcast. Richard's writing is brief but regular and the way he constantly keeps apace of all the latest developments is impressive.

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CourseArc

JANUARY 30, 2022

So the person will not have an idea of what the image is or its context within the text. . Here are some helpful tips when writing your alt text: . Narrator: The Renaissance took place primarily in Italy, but its innovation and ideas reached far and wide. . 0:40 – 0:46.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 29, 2011

Anyone who writes regularly will tell you this: There are times when you struggle to write something worthwhile. At such times, I tend to either write rubbish and then ditch it (boy, you should read some of my rejects - you'd laugh yourself sick), or more likely, walk away from the page/screen and go and do something else instead.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Anyone who writes regularly will tell you this: There are times when you struggle to write something worthwhile. At such times, I tend to either write rubbish and then ditch it (boy, you should read some of my rejects - you'd laugh yourself sick), or more likely, walk away from the page/screen and go and do something else instead.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 29, 2014

But what to write? I had been thinking for a while about the potential to create a book based on some of my more substantive blog posts, and so it was a serendipitous moment when I was approached by a publisher after one of my keynotes earlier this year. I thought it was about time that I published a new book. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 1, 2014

As this will be my last ever blog post, I thought I would explain why I have decided to quit blogging. In the 5 years since I first took up blogging, I have written just over 1160 posts, and have received over 4600 comments. I feel very sad that as April arrives and spring is finally here, it also signals the winter of my blog.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Later, as an education academic I collaborated with several medical scientists to write position papers in a range of technology applications in bioscience and medicine. He had read some of my previous papers, and was interested in seeing if we could take our ideas forward in the emerging area of social media and medical education.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 25, 2008

Tuesday, March 25, 2008 Jott This Blog I havent had so much time lately to blog, as this project Im working on has been quite grueling. I find my best time for thinking up excellent blog entries is late at night when Im lying in bed. Today, especially, my ideas are fresh from a restless night last night.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

They are becoming excited at the prospect of sharing their ideas to a potential worldwide audience, and relish the idea of having dialogue with their readership. People are beginning to notice an increase in the quantity and quality of blog posts and tweets emerging from our group of learners in the School of Education.

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Kitaboo

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Creative Commons License: This type of license allows content creators to specify the terms of use for their materials. This teamwork leads to the spread of the best teaching methods and innovative ideas, making education a constantly evolving adventure. These networks facilitate the exchange of licensed educational materials.

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Learning with e's

MAY 12, 2013

Mindful of these theories, I have recently been working alongside students to encourage them to write for an audience. Normally, in higher education, students write for an audience of one. They write essays, projects and dissertations that will be read only by their tutor or marker. Nothing new in that, you may think.

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CourseArc

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Based on the idea of open access, OER is the free, immediate, online use of available research articles with re-use rights. Through OER, students can increase their critical thinking and writing skills due to OER’s capacity to be modified, expanded and remixed. But inequities still exist. Want to learn more about CourseArc?

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Learning with e's

MAY 14, 2011

Dave has carved out quite a reputation for himself as a champion of blogging for early years children. Dave (aka @DeputyMitchell on Twitter) talked about the way he has established blogging as an inspirational tool to promote more engagement in learning for primary school age kids. But this is not the end of the story.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 3, 2015

Are you up for another blogging challenge? If you accept this challenge, it should encourage you to write creatively, and you'll end up sharing a new idea with a large audience. The first was a challenge where you were sent an image to inspire you to write about learning. So here's my idea. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Image from Pixabay I was intrigued to read a blog post by Tim Holt that was written in response to my own recent post on teachers and technology. Tim refers to one of my another of my recent blog posts where I present a model of change, and attempts to use this as refutation of my position. Thank you for reading the blog posts Tim.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 4, 2015

The #twistedpair blogging challenge asks you to put together an unlikely pairing of characters - these can be historical, contemporary or fictional - and write about the connection they have (however tenuous) and how it relates to teaching and learning. Here is the original challenge. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 6, 2011

The 2011 Edublog Awards have come around again with frightening speed, and once again this year I am both honoured and humbled to have been nominated in two categories - best individual blog and best individual tweeter (for my @timbuckteeth account). Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Even more valuable for me, many people commented and shared their ideas to me, which led to to write further blog posts, and publish a second, related post entitled Web x.0 It seemed that these ideas had resonated in the blogosphere. 0 and beyond. Here it is above, one more time, for anyone who missed it.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 16, 2014

Vygotsky''s writings were ideologically repressed by those opposed to their Soviet Socialist provenance. Learning through dialectical processes that lead to synthesis of disparate ideas or opposing perspectives turns out to be a strong foundation for successful critical thinking. Our ideas in isolation have limited power and reach.

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