Learning with e's

APRIL 28, 2012

So Freire didn't actually live to see the power and potential of social media, or the impact blogging would have on education. But what would he have said about blogs if he had been witness to the participatory web in all its present glory? Dialogue, as the encounter of those addressed to the common task of learning.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 24, 2012

My view is that in the social media universe, blogging is potentially the most powerful tool. Time and again, blogging is proving its worth in education and training, with countless learners discovering that sharing their ideas, sharing content and discussion ideas worldwide has a whole range of benefits. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JULY 5, 2011

F rom personal experience blogging is one of the most beneficial professional development activities I have ever engaged with. I learn more from blogging than I do from almost any other activity I participate in. Here are 7 good reasons why teachers should blog: 1) Blogging causes you to reflect.

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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? Blogging is different. But with your own blog, you can be master of your own destiny.

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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

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

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

JUNE 14, 2020

Promote creative writing using blog challenges such as #Blimage or #TwistedPair as visual prompts (the latter involves unlikely pairings of people to provoke imagination. Give the students licence to write imaginatively to express their ideas, while at the same time developing their thinking. Unported License.

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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

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. Some have returned to blogging after a long time away, and others have been encouraged to blog for the very first time. In fact it's a video.

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Learning with e's

JULY 31, 2019

Photo by StemT4L on unsplash Many teachers by now will be familiar with blogging for education projects that encourage children to write. If you haven't heard of any, then take a look at David Mitchell's Quadblogging project which encourages schools to team up to create audiences for students' blogs. Unported License.

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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

AUGUST 13, 2020

It has been quite a long time since my last blog post (more than 6 weeks!). There are several reasons for this, but perhaps the most important one is that I have been spending my time writing. I'm used to writing academic content, papers, conference papers, keynote speeches, chapter for books, peer reviewed journal articles.

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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

MARCH 15, 2019

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. Together for two days, we discussed how digital technologies and networks could support learning.

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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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Kitaboo

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Understanding legal frameworks is crucial in navigating the intricacies of fair use, open educational resources (OER), and Creative Commons licensing. To know more, write to us at KITABOO@hurix.com. This understanding helps mitigate the risk of copyright infringement.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 29, 2020

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. And now I'm writing a blog post about my experience. and the creative process continues. As I saved the documents, other words began coming into my head.

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Kitaboo

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Creative Commons: This is the most commonly used license for OERs where users can change the rights from “All rights reserved” to “Some rights reserved.” Contact our expert team now and get started! To know more, write to us at kitaboo@hurix.com. To understand how KITABOO can help you create an OER, get in touch today.

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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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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Over the past few years, I spend part of December going back through my blog to recap a bit of what some of the key things I’ve learned over the course of the year. Learning Coach Model Very Powerful In 2010, I had a great experience where Dr. Joel Harband wrote a series of articles for my blog on Text-to-Speech in eLearning.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Thursday, February 12, 2009 My Blogs Personality Type Well, it isnt very glamorous or creative sounding. But I suppose this is an appropriate description of my blogs personality? Check out your own blogs writing style at Typealyzer. And please, dont leave my blog alone. My blog is ISTP. And comments.

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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

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 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

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

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

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. Have a go.

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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 4, 2011

One of the perennial problems teachers face, especially in early years education, is trying to get children to write. The main problem is that children are expected to write in a vacuum, for an audience of one (the teacher). In an article entitled Could blogging be the key to raising a generation of great writers?

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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

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 Visions

MAY 30, 2007

Wednesday, May 30, 2007 Blogging is the new Graduate School Im not the only one getting an informal masters degree out here. In a guest post on the Brazen Careerist, Ryan Healy writes, "maybe blogging is the new graduate school." If you offer intelligent opinions or advice on a credible blog, then you are an expert.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

NB: No lobsters were harmed during the writing of this blog, and I certainly didn't eat any of them. It's not worth the bisque by Steve Wheeler was written in Maribor, Slovenia and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 You're not going to be in that tank forever, are you?

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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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Kitaboo

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Creative Commons License: This type of license allows content creators to specify the terms of use for their materials. Annual License: Similar to a subscription license, an annual license provides access to the content for a fixed duration of one year. It enables others to share and use the content within the defined parameters.

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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. Exploring medical technologies by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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