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Seven Things I Learned This Year

Tony Karrer

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. Twitter is Much Better than I Thought for Learning I used to say during presentations that I wasn’t quite sure about twitter as a learning tool. for more on this.

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5 technologies to promote creative learning

Learning with e's

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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It's not worth the bisque

Learning with e's

It got me thinking about the similarity between the lobsters acting like mobsters, and the sniping and name calling that we see between certain teachers on Twitter. NB: No lobsters were harmed during the writing of this blog, and I certainly didn't eat any of them. What is achieved? Certainly a lot of churn. But what else?

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Blimey, it's #blimage!

Learning with e's

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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Coming soon.

Learning with e's

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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#blimage conscious

Learning with e's

Several people on Twitter have asked recently for images they can use for the #blimage challenge. 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. Have a go.

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Sharpest tools in the box

Learning with e's

Here are my 8 essential tools: 1) Twitter, because as I recently said in a YouTube video , it is immediate, social and personal. I have an old, faithful laptop called Keith, which is now sadly in retirement, but still used occasionally to write a blog post. 2) My laptops. It''s all about connection. 5) YouTube. Unported License.

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