Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

If those methods can also encourage creative thinking, they are even more welcome in the classroom. Technology can provide some of those creative solutions. 2) Wiki''d Writing: Ask your students (in small groups or on their own) to either edit an existing Wikipedia page, or create a new one on a topic not yet covered.

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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

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

MARCH 9, 2014

Blogging can be used to engage children in creative writing , while making videos is excellent for problem solving and collaborative work. There is nothing wrong with any of these approaches, provided they don''t get in the way of good pedagogy. But that is the problem. There is nothing for you to see here.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Gathering ''big data'' from learning analytics is perhaps the motherlode for most large scale course providers such as EdX , Udacity and Coursera (MOOC platforms). Photo by Steve Wheeler Mobile learning and personal metrics by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Content creation is an important feature in many personal learning environment (PLE) models, and together with organising and sharing, makes up the cardinal triumvirate of skills that provides learners with a clear advantage. The blog content allows me perhaps to view a problem from a different perspective. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 8, 2014

I will attempt to contextualise these changes at the level of both organisation and individual, to provide a picture of how universities and teachers might manage their business in the coming decade. and provide some examples of current pedagogical practice using the Social Web. Introducing Web 2.0: Kamel Boulos, M. Maramba, I.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

When I'm not talking about learning, I'm reading about it, researching it, thinking about it, and writing about it. Today was particularly interesting because I had a conversation on this blog with ePortfolio Keith (Keith Brennan aka @wiltwhatman), who was commenting on my Three Things post. References Bandura, A. Engeström, Y.,

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 10, 2013

I have previously written on this blog about how mobile technology can give the edge and also about some of the social implications of learning on the move. As I write, news is breaking of Samsung''s release of the first curved display screen smartphone. Mobile technology is a game changer. For many that is already a reality.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 28, 2015

Before the digital age, teachers could write books and articles to share their knowledge. Here are five ways we can give our knowledge to generations of learners we will never meet: 1) Blogging. Blogs such as the one you are now reading have been set up to share knowledge, and also to encourage discussion. 3) Slideshows.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 3, 2016

Some who read this blog may recall my own experiences in school, and the long term damage that was caused when certain teachers ridiculed me. School should provide the first steps to turning dreams into reality. School should provide the first steps to turning dreams into reality. Never laugh at the dreams of children.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 7, 2015

Providing too much scaffolding can be counter productive, and learners can take a lot longer to gain their confidence. Provide them too much support, or intervene too frequently, and they will take longer to discover their own balance. Acquiring skills is like that. Students are often more capable than we think they are.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

As a prelude to the event, the organisers have asked me to write a short blog post which takes the form of my responses to four questions: Q1. It is the responsibility of governments to provide free education to its citizens. I subsequently pledged that I would never again write, review or edit for a closed academic journal.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

This is a continuation from yesterday''s blog post on changing times and the survival of higher education. Around 2007 we started using blogs to support several of our student teacher groups that were geographically dispersed across the South of England.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 16, 2017

That is exactly the purpose of this series of blog posts. Twitter has provided real time Q and A sessions with experts on a subject. I had the low ability English group and they were still near the end of year 2 struggling with their phonics and general engagement in writing. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 20, 2015

Reflecting back on their time at university is made easier because of the blogs and other digital artefacts they have left in their trail. Chris Nesbitt's blog is a wonderful example of how students can gain a deeper understanding of theory by writing about it online in front of a potentially worldwide audience of readers.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 14, 2015

Throughout this book, the contributors generally argue for change in education, and provide examples from their own experiences as to how those changes might be effected. Jackie Gerstein writes about the contrast between learning in traditional environments, which is generally passive (Education 1.0) and Hase, S. Self publication.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 16, 2008

Dan Roddy recently shared a link to a great article on tips for writing in a more conversational tone. Photo credit: Learn to Knit by abbynormy Posted by Cammy Bean at 12:50 PM Labels: instructional design , knitting , writing 3comments: Janet Clarey said. So heres to me remembering something this time around. Good for you!

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Learning Visions

MARCH 23, 2009

Here IDs sometimes work as technical writers and TW sometimes write courses to optimize the cost. I was wanting to bring this up as a discussion in my blog sometime. Photo Credit: Corner Pocket - Day 42 by Vox Efx Posted by Cammy Bean at 8:50 AM Labels: global , instructional design , market 6comments: KarROX said.

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Learning Visions

DECEMBER 20, 2007

But I find them painfully boring to read and to write. Ray Sims has written a great summary on Writing Learning Objectives , with citations to some good resources, including Vicki Heaths post Learning Objectives: Writing Learning Outcomes So They Matter. And Clive is definitely on the top of my Blogs I Like list!

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Rapid eLearning

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

As I was searching previous posts to answer his question, I ran into a lot of the tools and sites that I’ve recommended in previous blog posts. Creative Commons audio : good sites to get free audio for your courses. Photo Resizer : use this application to quickly resize images to a specific resolution. original post ].

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TechSmith Camtasia

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

In my ideal classroom I would not spend my time writing lesson plans or grading papers. Rather grades marked on a page, there would be constant feedback provided to every student that is specific to his/her successes and failures. Customized paths means I need to write out detailed plans for every single student.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 12, 2013

Frequent visitors to this blog will have noticed that over the last few weeks I''ve been videoblogging (or vlogging). The four videos, in their sequence are 3 things you should know about Twitter , 3 things you should know about blogging , 3 things you should know about digital literacies , and 3 things you should know about Edupunk.

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eFront

APRIL 28, 2016

Nowadays, most of the images have an attribution from Creative Commons. Most artists are happy to let you share their work for free, provided you backlink to their websites or cite them in your references section. Try writing down image descriptions of what you may need for a particular learning goal. Size Matters.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 21, 2008

Photo credits: Exhausted by waffler Lasso by willac Guerrilla by bartleby78 Newborn baby by platinumblondelife5 Posted by Cammy Bean at 3:07 PM Labels: e-learning , instructional design , software training 11comments: Kiosco Salo Concepción said. This post has been removed by a blog administrator. My client hopes I go late. Thank you.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

When I wrote Blogging with Freire , I was speculating on what that great Brazilian educator and theorist might have made of educational blogging - a concept he never knew, because he died before the Internet and social media came in to common use. This can be easily set up and conducted using Web 2.0 4) The Natural Method.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 7, 2008

I primarily focus on the content, the writing, and the schmoozing with the client. (My We imagine providing the same tools to subject matter experts that we expect instructional designers to use, and asking them to be a one person show. Pertinent blog post Cammy. 1:32 AM Tom Kuhlmann said. Good post and comments.

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