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| Page 1 of 3 | Previous | Next | LEARNING ROCKS AUGUST 2, 2012  eBooks - a potted guide to what I wanted to know A great session at weelearning recently left me fired up and thinking about ebooks like I've never considered before. What's the problem with ebooks? I've had a number of ebook readers on my Android phones but have always been bamboozled by their boasts about compatibility with dozens of formats. Choosing your format for digital publishing I'm not going to rehash everything. screen). Scrubby. | LEARNING ROCKS OCTOBER 21, 2011 The informal learning plugin, on an LMS near you soon I just read a tweet from Jay Cross that took me to a post from a representative of Blackboard, makers of the dreadful LMS, purporting to dispel "myths" about informal learning. Given that I take informal learning to be a conceptual notion of knowledge acquisition and sharing rather than a defined and fairly uncontroversial body of knowledge like, say, climate science or evolution, I was intrigued and felt I needed to know more about these "myths". had to respond but not sure that my contribution will be welcome, so thought, like Jay, worth reposting. To a planned taught course? | | | | | |
| LEARNING ROCKS OCTOBER 24, 2012 Dan experienced 'creating a Tin Can API statement' I've just read up on Tin Can API. I've been meaning to do it for ages and I'm kinda pleased that, as it turns out, Tin Can does pretty much what I had assumed it would do - but it does it better than I could have imagined and way more besides. Something for everyone All the LMS loving tracky types can love it because it does everything they need it to. Social learning types should be delighted as this reaches out and allows individuals to say what they learnt rather than only rewarding pre-ordained learning experiences. Brilliant. Crucially however, it can't be a bolt on. | LEARNING ROCKS NOVEMBER 7, 2011  Gamification by example - my slides After a suitable delay, here are my slides from my talk at the eLearning Network's October Converting Classroom Courses event in London. I've added a summary of what I said on each slide in the notes. Gamification by example View more presentations from Dan Roddy This was the "winning" talk on the day. | LEARNING ROCKS OCTOBER 13, 2009 My 10 Ten Tools for Learning I've been giving this some consideration lately as I've found myself populating and repopulating a couple of machines at home and work with all that I require to keep me happy. So, here they are: 1. Google Search (Personal) Despite the never ending torrent of brilliantly useful stuff that the Big G churns out, it still is barely necessary to append "search" to their name to be clear what you mean when you say Google is a vital tool. have Google on almost permanent standby, especially so now (see 10). I'm also a fan of it's capabilities for laying out eBooks for publishing to PDF. Great results. | LEARNING ROCKS DECEMBER 18, 2008 Open Source life, LMSs beyond Moodle I've recently become a fan of Open Source Living , a site that rounds up the best of the many and varied OS apps that are out there. find it rather more useful day-to-day than the more far-ranging but rather bewildering SourceForge , probably because while that site seems more targeted at developers, OSLiving is a bit more selective - it seems to weed out the thousands of half finished, one-man-in-a-bedroom-every-second-Sunday-in-months-ending-with-'y' type apps that fill out any search on SourceForge. Moodle is of course THE open source e-learning item of the moment*1. Again, looks pretty. | | | | | | | |
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LEARNING ROCKS | TUESDAY, JULY 20, 2010 How to create a lightbox in Moodle
A lightbox effect is a great way to improve how pictures are displayed within Moodle, especially in fixed width themes where the space may be at a premium. use it to zoom in on thumbnail images, but you can also use it to display images from a link on a word too if you like. It uses a nice "modal zoom" look and feel that fades the background and will be familiar to anyone who uses the web more than infrequently. This hack requires a small change to some HTML, but this is only to insert new code - there aren't any actual changes - so it should be considered an intermediate level tweak. MORE >> -
LEARNING ROCKS | MONDAY, JUNE 27, 2011 Why I don't like Twitter
Let me start by making one thing really clear. like Twitter very much. find it very useful and it has probably become my number one personal learning tool over the last year*. However, I am becoming increasingly sceptical about its use as a social learning tool in any organised sense and in particular, there are some characteristics of how it is being used that frankly I'm not altogether comfortable with. Perhaps this is because there are lots more conferences in the learning tech arena, perhaps not. The concept is familiar enough. And it works okay. Look mum, I'm on telly!" Great stuff. MORE >> -
LEARNING ROCKS | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2012 mylearningworx - a reflection on the launch event
Last week I was pleased to attend the launch of mylearningworx , a new site that offers individuals the chance to both make a course and take a course. If your passion is to teach people about local history or some craft or hobby, their platform allows you to quickly and easily pull a course together and sell it to others who want to learn. While most elearning to date has been in either the mass market of formal K-12 education or in custom products for large wealthy companies, there aren't that many folk really addressing the "long tail" of online formal learning. And good luck to 'em. MORE >> -
LEARNING ROCKS | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2010 Gaminess in learning
Just wanted to catch an important point about what constitutes gaminess - can't remember where it comes from, but I'm fairly sure that Simon Bostock would have been involved in bringing it in to my field of vision: Five points that mean gamey: Collecting (ie badges) Points and levels Feedback to lead to improvement Exchange (for P2P activity) Customisation (for an individual experience) So, gaminess is not a quiz dressed up as hangman or a car race - this is the gaminess that creates re-playability and the desire to improve. MORE >> -
LEARNING ROCKS | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2011 In defence of jargon
"Every science requires a special language because every science has its own ideas." Ettiene Bonnot de Condillac (circa 1780) "Jargon" has been a fairly persistent meme on Twitter lately. seem to be in a minority amongst a group of learning tech people which I feel is well meaning, but misplaced in its desire to obliterate "in" language. I'm all for clear, open and inclusive language in business - it's a workplace activity I could count as a hobby; discouraging the odd, clunky "institutional" language of passive sentences and misused pronouns. More importantly it speeds things up. MORE >>
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- No elearning, thank you very much! LEARNING ROCKS | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2013
- A simple language learning resource LEARNING ROCKS | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 2013
- Fresh Look at Learning Design by Patrick Dunn LEARNING ROCKS | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2011
- A BETTr type of conference? LEARNING ROCKS | MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 2011
- Help wanted - virtualize me! LEARNING ROCKS | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2010
- Bandwidth issues - why they're a problem LEARNING ROCKS | MONDAY, JUNE 21, 2010
- "Listen, Observe" - the sound of chances squandered LEARNING ROCKS | SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 2012
- Failed by VISA LEARNING ROCKS | TUESDAY, JULY 5, 2011
- Why video is your cheap option LEARNING ROCKS | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2011
- How to create a lightbox in Moodle LEARNING ROCKS | TUESDAY, JULY 20, 2010
- weelearning - we want you to have it LEARNING ROCKS | MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 2013
- A good BETT LEARNING ROCKS | SUNDAY, JANUARY 16, 2011
- Meta-learning: educational fungus LEARNING ROCKS | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2010
- Prepare better for lightning talks LEARNING ROCKS | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2011
- Badgification LEARNING ROCKS | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2011
- Revisiting old useful ideas - learnscapes LEARNING ROCKS | FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 2011
- Letter to my MP on selling off the woodland LEARNING ROCKS | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2011
- Learning research to action - from Jakob Nielsen LEARNING ROCKS | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2011
- Verifiable CPD? Really? What do you mean? LEARNING ROCKS | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2010
- Compliance in health estates training LEARNING ROCKS | MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2011
- Testing a new method of access LEARNING ROCKS | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2011
- A BETTr type of conference? LEARNING ROCKS | MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 2011
- How much "design" for the instructional designer? LEARNING ROCKS | THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 2010
- 5 Things I love about my Android LEARNING ROCKS | SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 2010
- Flash - when and where? LEARNING ROCKS | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2009
- Why I'm still at Blogger LEARNING ROCKS | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 2011
- Yo, Edi, I'mma let you finish. LEARNING ROCKS | MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2010
- Usability FAIL LEARNING ROCKS | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 2011
- Preparing for preparing to teach in the life-long learning sector LEARNING ROCKS | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2011
- A good place to start LEARNING ROCKS | SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2006
- On the lot of the ID LEARNING ROCKS | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2006
- Podcasting - really any use for learning? LEARNING ROCKS | MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2006
- What's the use of 'blogs? LEARNING ROCKS | SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2006
- When theories collide LEARNING ROCKS | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2006
- Your help is needed. LEARNING ROCKS | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2006
- Pick any three LEARNING ROCKS | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2006
- Oh no! It only gets harder. LEARNING ROCKS | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2006
- ID - an online course! LEARNING ROCKS | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2006
- Free Stuff - and it's about learning too LEARNING ROCKS | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2006
- Aha! I found a way! LEARNING ROCKS | SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2006
- (Fre)e-learning LEARNING ROCKS | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2006
- A course for us! LEARNING ROCKS | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2006
- A periodic table of visualisation LEARNING ROCKS | TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2007
- Learning: a case study LEARNING ROCKS | TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 2007
- Will's big quiz LEARNING ROCKS | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2007
- PowerPoint's forgotten powers LEARNING ROCKS | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2007
- Reliable sources LEARNING ROCKS | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2007
- Learning shock - go to bed! LEARNING ROCKS | SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2007
- TED talks a lot of sense LEARNING ROCKS | SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2007
- Herd learning - I'm a sheep LEARNING ROCKS | SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2007
- All politicians should be made to read this LEARNING ROCKS | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2007
- Blogging - a maze in learning LEARNING ROCKS | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2007
- Oh God - the bit of my job I like and it's a dead end! LEARNING ROCKS | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2007
- Learning Visions: The Learning Show LEARNING ROCKS | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2007
- In praise of page turners LEARNING ROCKS | FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2007
- Overshadowed by marketing LEARNING ROCKS | TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 2007
- Access more knowledge LEARNING ROCKS | SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 2007
- More for the feed LEARNING ROCKS | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2006
- What to track? LEARNING ROCKS | SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 2007
- What goes unsaid LEARNING ROCKS | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 2007
- TED's back LEARNING ROCKS | THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 2007
- Social Learning - my Aha! moment LEARNING ROCKS | THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2007
- Aha! #2 Practicing what we preach LEARNING ROCKS | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 2007
- Cheating Rocks! LEARNING ROCKS | MONDAY, APRIL 30, 2007
- Redefining elearning LEARNING ROCKS | MONDAY, APRIL 30, 2007
- TED launches a new super encyclopedia LEARNING ROCKS | THURSDAY, MAY 10, 2007
- Cogitating cognition LEARNING ROCKS | WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 2007
- Facebook? How? Why? LEARNING ROCKS | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 2007
- Shifting up a gear and getting rapid LEARNING ROCKS | SATURDAY, JULY 21, 2007
- Facebook - a group for us, and thoughts on its value LEARNING ROCKS | SATURDAY, JULY 21, 2007
- OpenOffice Impress - a rapid tool? LEARNING ROCKS | WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 2007
- GetOut of My Space! LEARNING ROCKS | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2007
- Kirkpatrick - misunderstood again LEARNING ROCKS | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2007
- Been caught napping LEARNING ROCKS | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2007
- Welcome to the party GIMP 2.4! LEARNING ROCKS | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2007
- A seal of approval for wikis LEARNING ROCKS | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2007
- Leveraging my own grey matter LEARNING ROCKS | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2007
- Dr Ishii's Brain Training LEARNING ROCKS | SUNDAY, JANUARY 6, 2008
- New year - new tongue? LEARNING ROCKS | THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 2008
- Using a natural voice LEARNING ROCKS | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2008
- When the school is part of the curriculum LEARNING ROCKS | THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 2008
- What we want and what we get - the difference LEARNING ROCKS | FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 2008
- Thinking about not thinking LEARNING ROCKS | SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 2008
- At last: AICC and SCORM elucidated! LEARNING ROCKS | MONDAY, MARCH 10, 2008
- Enter the Grand Learning Renewal Project LEARNING ROCKS | THURSDAY, MAY 15, 2008
- Moodled - at last LEARNING ROCKS | SUNDAY, MAY 25, 2008
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