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Reasons to be teaching

Learning with e's

It will be a term filled with preparation and paperwork - lesson plans, resources, reports, assessment, attendance records, letters to parents, risk assessments, possibly even an Ofsted visit (school inspection) - and all the other seemingly peripheral work that accompanies the actual teaching of children. 2007) The teacher as a role model.

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Help yourself

Learning with e's

Stewart Hase and Chris Kenyon’s (2007) conceptualisation of self determined learning places the emphasis on non-linear, self-directed and self-regulated forms of learning, and embraces both formal and informal education contexts. I would like to argue that technology plays a key role in this process. Reference Hase, S. and Kenyon, C.

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Designing a PowerPoint Screencast Using Camtasia

TechSmith Camtasia

Screencasts are an effective teaching tool that offer instructors greater versatility in developing lesson plans. There are two ways to acquire screencast videos to use with a lesson: Find a screencast video that is already available from YouTube, Kahn Academy , neoK12 , or other sources. Guest post by Michael F. Ruffini, Ed.D.

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Designing a PowerPoint Screencast Using Camtasia

TechSmith Camtasia

Screencasts are an effective teaching tool that offers instructors greater versatility in developing lesson plans. There are two ways to acquire screencast videos to use with a lesson: Find a screencast video that is already available from YouTube, Kahn Academy, neoK12, or other sources. Guest post by Michael F. Ruffini, Ed.D.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Building Better Learning Games

Learning Visions

Demographics of Casual Games: In 2007, 61% of online game play was in the genre of casual games. Creating a library of casual games to teach simple lessons (credit cards, personal budgeting, saving, loans, etc.) Poll: Do you play any of these? D2Ds vision is financial entertainment. Looked at existing games and saw issues.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: My Objection to Learning Objectives

Learning Visions

I called this one out as one of the top things I learned about learning in 2007. I sat in on a couple of Michael Allens sessions at ASTD 2007 and when he advised us to spare our learners from learning objectives, it really surprised me. Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: All Work And No Learning.

Learning Visions

No conscious time to stop and smell the roses; to reflect on whats been going on and why; to incorporate any lessons learned. Theres barely any time to even think if Ive learned any lessons. Lessons learned meetings (do people still do this? Lately, work has just felt way too busy. We talk about it, but theres rarely the time.