Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 21, 2008

Stephen Downes summarizes week 2 of CCK08, including a description of how different the discussions in Moodle and on the blogs are. The Moodle discussion has become very angry and dominated by a handful of people, while the blogs show much more diversity in perspectives. tags: cck08 , connectivism , networks , discussion , blog.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 29, 2008

JOLT - Defining Tools for a New Learning Space: Writing and Reading Class Blogs. Examines blogs as learning tools for creating a “community of discourse.&# This article focuses more on the role of the facilitator in shaping the learning community than on the instructional design of assignments using blogs.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 15, 2008

Trendpedia - blog trend search. Graphs the number of blog posts over time which include a search term or phrase. tags: blog , visualization , patterns. Works even for terms with low numbers of actual posts (e.g., You can compare the trends for up to 3 terms at a time.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 1, 2008

tags: blog , community , education , citations , reputation. The Learning Circuits Blog: Big Questions. tags: e-learning , blog , instructionaldesign. Collection of posts and ideas about etiquette and expected behavior in the edublogosphere, including dealing with inappropriate comments, online reputation, and healthy debate.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 10, 2008

This article skims the surface of what might be possible if social networking tools, blogs, wikis, and more were used to construct courses and give students more control. tags: lms , socialnetworking , ple , blog , wiki , web2.0 , learnercontrol. What would that do to the pedagogy?

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Wiki Social Networks PLE Pedagogy 170

Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 14, 2008

» What Everyone Should Know About Working with Subject Matter Experts The Rapid eLearning Blog. Tips for working with SMEs: * Don’t expect SMEs to be experts at learning theory. Present good examples of what you think will work. Everyone is working for the organization’s success. tags: sme , instructionaldesign , e-learning.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 18, 2008

Make Your Blog Design Work For You | chrisbrogan.com. Design ideas from someone who says that every part of his blog design is intentional. tags: blog , design , usability , goals. It may not be perfect, but he’s thought about all the elements and how they help him accomplish his goals.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 19, 2008

Blogging and Reading Comprehension Strategies « Classroom Tech Tips. and tips for students to improve blog conversations. tags: blog , education , k-12 , writing. We know they are student centric, wholistic, they are teaching about how to learn as much as teaching about the subject area.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Includes links to blog posts about ID careers (including my 2007 series), companies that hire IDs, courses and certificates available in India, and salaries. Getting Started with Instructional Design. Manish Mohan on getting started in the field of instructional design, responding to several reader questions. Posted in

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 3, 2008

Dave's Whiteboard » Blog Archive » Think and do? You read a post on one of your regular blogs, then click a link (1). tags: blog , conversation , connection , lifelonglearning. Top News - Blogging helps encourage teen writing. tags: blog , writing , education , k-12. tags: blog , writing , education , k-12.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 17, 2008

tags: blog , digitalliteracy , education , writing. How do we teach connective writing that uses the full potential of what real blogging can be, as opposed to just “writing with blogs&# ? » Thinking ’bout Linking Bud the Teacher. Reflections on how writing for online is different than writing for text.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 13, 2008

x28’s new Blog » Blog Archive » My take on Connectivism. Natalie Kilkenny writes about how much more productive she is as a telecommuter than working in a cube farm and answers the question “How do they know that you’re working when they can’t see you?&#. tags: telecommuting , career , productivity.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 4, 2008

iterating toward openness » Blog Archive » If Facebook Worked Like Blackboard. A short post, but very pointed–if Facebook worked like an LMS, no real community would ever develop. Questions the whole idea of closed educational systems. tags: facebook , education , e-learning , lms , blackboard , openaccess.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 31, 2008

Cool Cat Teacher Blog: How to Make Wiki References. Screencast and directions for adding references in Wikispaces. Wikispaces references now work like Wikipedia, where you can add a reference and it creates a linked footnote. tags: wiki , citations , howto , screencast. WebAIM: Web Accessibility Gone Wild. tags: accessibility , webdesign.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 10, 2008

What to do with a visually noisy blog » VisualsSpeak Blog. Christine Martell explains blog visuals with some usability and color theory. tags: graphicdesign , usability , blog , color. The pink sweater is my favorite. tags: flickr , math , k-12 , education , visualization.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 12, 2008

Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: Working Wikily: The fine lines between content and curriculum and self-directed learning and instruction … Beth Kanter on the process of developing curriculum collaboratively with a “swarm&# of contributors on a wiki.

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Wiki Social Media Tagging Collaboration 170

Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 27, 2008

tags: blog , identity , reputation. Cool Cat Teacher Blog: 38 Birthday presents from CoolCatTeacher to you! Series of posts from Darren Rowse on Problogger about blogger credibility and building trust through longevity, experience, expertise, generosity, transparency, and more. Vicki Davis shares 38 online tools that she uses.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 30, 2008

tags: blog. Some of these aren’t really relevant to what I do (like the advertising info), but there’s some ideas here for making my blog more useful. Principles include “People before Things (or test scores)&# and “As the Individual Grows so Will the Collective Wisdom of the Community&#.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 29, 2008

Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech » Blog Archive » Diigo you have given me a headache. Wikinomics » Blog Archive » Wiki collaboration leads to happiness. Cool Cat Teacher Blog: The Five Phases of Flattening a Classroom Annotated. tags: privacy , socialbookmarking. tags: socialbookmarking , socialnetworking.

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Wiki Diigo Delicious Social Bookmarking 170

Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 17, 2008

Educational Technology and Life » Blog Archive » Passion and Professional Development… Online. Mark Wagner on different philosophies for teaching, both face-to-face and online. From one of the assignments in PLS’ Facilitator Skills Training. tags: FST , teaching , profdev , passion , e-learning , education , learning.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 31, 2008

The Bamboo Project Blog: Guide to Using Free Tools to Create an Online Portfolio. Vanity search on Diigo to see everyone who has bookmarked my blog. Classroom Management Quotes. tags: education , quoteable. Some good quotes on classroom management and education. tags: career , portfolio , tools. Search People By Site > Diigo.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 22, 2008

» What Everybody Ought to Know About Instructional Design The Rapid eLearning Blog. Great post on the value of instructional design and what instructional designers add to the process of learning. More than just putting info in front of learners. Helps learners focus on the right things. Provides context and perspective.

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 19, 2008

Principles for assessing online discussions and other conversations (blogs, chat, etc.) tags: web2.0 , blog , tools. The Bamboo Project Blog: Using Del.icio.us Mostly higher ed. tags: openaccess , education , highered , e-learning , creativecommons , free. Learning in the Webiverse: How Do You Grade a Conversation?

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 22, 2008

Create Custom Characters for Your E-Learning Scenarios - The Rapid eLearning Blog. The Bamboo Project Blog: 21st Century Workplace Literacy: What Does that Mean and How Do We Engage More People in the Discussion? Case studies from several school districts provided. tags: quality , continuousimprovement , education.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Haven’t you see MySpace, facebook and blogs. Annoyingly, just as complaints about literacy multiply, along comes a technology that has promoted a renaissance in reading and writing, yet it is treated with contempt by the ‘pen and paper’ brigade. Children don’t keep diaries any more – oh yeah! They’re obsessed by diary keeping.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 9, 2008

Audio can be shared on a blog as a podcast but not sold commercially. Read The Words. Free text-to-speech application that creates mp3s of content from multiple formats. Originally designed to help students with learning disabilities access text more easily. tags: audio , text-to-speech , podcast.

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 18, 2008

Nobody has time for that.Rather, what you want to be thinking of doing is to gradually migrate to writing online *instead* of writing for those other purposes.That doesn’t mean you become a blog writer and nothing else. Rather, what you’ll find is that writing for the website makes writing for all those other things a lot easier.

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 23, 2008

Sample rubrics for blogging, bookmarking, search, discussion, wikis, collaboration, digital publishing, and more. educational-origami » Rubrics - Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy. tags: rubric , assessment , 21stcenturyskills , education , web2.0.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 12, 2008

The Bamboo Project Blog: Privacy, Social Media and Learning. Businesses and organizations may worry about social media and Web 2.0 tools in terms of privacy and confidentiality, but their fears are largely unfounded. tags: web2.0 , orgculture , privacy.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 26, 2014

I haven’t done my list in a few years, but you can see my past lists from 2011 , 2009 , 2008 , and 2007. WordPress is my blog host. Jane Hart is collecting her eighth annual list of top tools for learning. You can vote for your top tools until September 19, 2014. Personal Learning.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

eLearning Learning is a great site to get a snapshot of what people are talking about in the field without being as overwhelming as subscribing to dozens of individual blogs can be. Filed under: Blogging , e-Learning. I know many of my readers are new to the field of e-learning, or hoping to transition.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 28, 2008

WebAIM: Blog - 508 and Higher Ed. An analysis of 100 web pages of higher ed institutions showed that only 3 of them met the Section 508 requirements. Most pages were missing skip navigation links and alt text. tags: accessibility , highered. udutu | Create simulations online with ease.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Internet technology that encourages diversity rather than conformity includes things like personal home pages or these days, blogs. It wouldn’t be a network without diversity. I should add to this slide MySpace profiles and things like that, your account on Flickr.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 1, 2008

Top 10 Worst Captchas | John M Willis ESM Blog. tags: humor , usability. These are just awful Captchas–great examples of failures for usability. Clive on Learning: PowerPoint accessibility. tags: accessibility , powerpoint. Discussion of accessibility challenges in PowerPoint presentations with suggested solutions for each.

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Diigo Compliance Training PowerPoint Tagging 170

Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 16, 2008

Connectivism Blog > Pedagogy First? tags: connectivism , context , pedagogy , technology. George Siemens argues that rather than starting with pedagogy for making instructional decisions, we should start with context.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 20, 2008

The Bamboo Project Blog: Dump Your Resume–Build a Reputation Instead. tags: career , identity , portfolio , reputation. Even perfect resumes won’t always get interviews, according to a recent small-scale experiment. So what do you do instead?

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 9, 2008

Response to the “Net Gen Nonsense&# blog and George Siemens’ arguments that it’s the environment changing rather than the learners. Resistance. Integration. New Status Quo. tags: change , orgculture , changemanagement. The Only Net-Gen Nonsense : Ruminate.

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