Learning Visions

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Friday, October 30, 2009 Finding Good Photos for Your eLearning Scenarios Do you struggle with finding good stock photos to use in your eLearning scenarios? So then do you go do a custom photo shoot? I was not paid or offered any favors to write this review, I just think it’s a cool service. But usually not.

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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. Warburton (Eds.) Unported License.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

Photo by Steve Wheeler More often than not, one thing leads to another. Particularly where creativity is concerned, I have learnt that one small event, thought or action can trigger several more, and you never know where the sequence will take you. And now I'm writing a blog post about my experience. Don't shoot me.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 15, 2019

Photo by Krzyboy2o on Wikimedia Commons This is a post for #OpenBlog19. The event was called 'Show that you Share' and focused on tools such as Creative Commons , personal learning environments and mobile phones as a means of creating, sharing and repurposing content, knowledge and artefacts for education.

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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. yeah, right.

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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. See what you can make of it!

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Photo by Steve Wheeler Sat in a fish restaurant tonight, I noticed this tank full of lobsters beside my table. If you look closely at the photo, their claws are taped together so they can't do any physical harm to each other. NB: No lobsters were harmed during the writing of this blog, and I certainly didn't eat any of them.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Blogging for example, provides students with a potentially very large audience for their writing. Previously, essay writing was for an audience of one - the teacher/assessor. Photo by Jim Cianca on Wikimedia Commons The height of SAMR by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

JULY 30, 2015

For the uninitiated, #blimage (blog-image) is a game we started to encourage learning professionals to blog. You are sent an image which you then have to write about, metaphorically or literally. At the end of your blog post you then challenge some of your friends with another image, of your own choice.

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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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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 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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Matrix

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

The Creative Commons licensing. Pictures, along with text, were the most common example of this kind of theft. Creative Commons makes sure this doesn’t happen anymore. Check out the rules for each of them on this dedicated Creative Commons page. Death to the Stock Photo. Gratisography.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 8, 2013

My previous writings around Edupunk can be found in Edupunk stalks the institution (which details the tensions highlighted above) and also elsewhere on this blog. Photo by Steve Wheeler 3 things you should know about Edupunk by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

In retrospect we know that many teachers had little time to learn how to use these new technologies effectively, so merely used them to write on and to display their slides, as though they were traditional chalk boards or projection screens. One example is when classrooms began to be equipped with interactive whiteboards (IWBs).

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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

APRIL 21, 2016

Dr Tim Lynch, who joined us recently from his previous post at Monash University in Australia, writes about a game played by children across the globe - dodgeball (or 'poison ball') and how it can be used with trainee teachers as a way of determining the quality of games in physical education. Unported License.

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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. Photo by ClintJCL An audience with.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 4, 2016

Some people display framed certificates on their walls, or photos of their degree ceremony. For me though, the most important way to represent my learning, and to continually reinforce it, is to write about it, either here on this blog, as articles and pieces for journals and magazines, and occasionally in the form of books or book chapters.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 23, 2015

Recently, in the wake of the #blimage blogging challenge I've been thinking about the power of photos and images. I have quite a collection of selfies and other photos of me with people who have either inspired me or influenced my thinking in some way. In the centre of the photo is Joyce Seitzinger. 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

OCTOBER 27, 2013

Many have some great ideas to share, and we encourage student blogging very strongly in Plymouth. The games we play Photo courtesy of U.S. Navy Games for girls by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 I''m a big advocate of student publications. Congratulations Lucy!

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Learning with e's

MARCH 14, 2014

They were writing up their project in their online journals when I spoke to them, reflecting on what they had learnt about ratios, distances and dimensions. They were using iPad apps to create and then capture context aware images, that connected them directly to sites displaying to their own photos. Unported License.

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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. It was a win-win for everyone who took part.

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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 - historical, contemporary or fictional - and write about a connection they have (however tenuous) and how it relates to learning. I look forward to reading your #twistedpair blogs! Unported License.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 10, 2017

The LLI team members were writing some new research proposals and were allocated a room with large dry-wipe white boards on three walls. As I was working in this space with 5 other members of the team, I realised how useful it was to have these writing spaces to map out our ideas and plans. How could they be designed better?

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Learning with e's

APRIL 20, 2012

Many blogs, videos, photos, tweets (at the time of writing almost 20,000 in less than 3 full days - here's the complete archive ) and other content has been created throughout over the course of the conference. Others too, will be busy writing their blogs as they reflect on three extraordinary days.

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Technology Enhanced Learning Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Here is the post I (think) I wanted to write then, and there are 11 of mine. Provide links to key information, to recommended reading, to extra not-necessarily-key-but-still-interesting reading, to videos, to books, to articles, to blogs. Stock photos : most of us can spot these a mile off, so it’s a safe bet the learner can too.

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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. Extensive conversations with others within one''s community of practice are now easier than ever, thanks to social media such as social networks, wikis and blogs. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 17, 2013

I have an old, faithful laptop called Keith, which is now sadly in retirement, but still used occasionally to write a blog post. 4) Blogger, my blogging tool which hosts this blog and several more I run. Personal Learning Network Blogger education iPad learning blogging Twitter PLN' 2) My laptops. 5) YouTube.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

To complete this task students must first understand and appreciate what the non-traditional senses are and how they are used, and then use their creativity to depict them accurately.] Students will need to know how to compose and capture good images, and also will need to be aware of the gaps in the image repository on Wikimedia Commons.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

This can be quite a superficial exercise, especially if the student learns nothing from writing the assignment. They have already blogged about one specific learning theory, and have then combined it with another theory to create their own synthesis of understanding about how theories relate to each other to better explain learning.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 28, 2015

In this series of short posts, I'm writing about my top ten selfies with people who have inspired me or have influenced my thinking. Previous selfie posts can also be viewed on this blog. I add him to my list of selfies and photos for many reasons (here we are larking about on the Barcelona Metro). Unported License.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 5, 2010

When I write a blog post for example, I am creating new content as I write, and then in turn, that content may reveal to me something I may have missed if I had not written the post. The blog content allows me perhaps to view a problem from a different perspective. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 31, 2016

In a recent blog post, Antonio Teixera , President of EDEN wrote: "By just adding 21st century technologies to 20th century teaching practices we’ll only be diluting the effectiveness of teaching." I'm planning to write more about this in the next few days. Photo by Alan Levine on Flickr New pedagogies? He's right.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2014

This is one reason why I believe blogging is such an important tool to support thinking and learning. Blogging and other creative forms of writing have a rich language capability that can support better memory and recall, particularly if the technology is used as a mind tool to extend language. Unported License.

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