Kapp Notes

JANUARY 5, 2008

The ASTD Big Question for January is "What are your Predictions for Learning in 2008?" The three questions, now modified for 2008, are: What will you remember most about 2007? What are the biggest challenges for you/us as head into 2008? What are your predictions for 2008? What are your predictions for 2008?

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 7, 2008

What is the unique idea in Connectivism? George Siemens on how connectivism differs from constructivism and other learning theories, starting from the point that “a new idea is often an old idea in today’s context.&#. Annotated list of educational games, all related to science and math.

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From the Coleface

JANUARY 28, 2008

January is the time of year when you’ll read lots of predictions as to what will be hot in 2008 in L&D, so I thought it would be rude not to get into the act too. ′ This buzzword is based on the idea that in their first incarnation, websites were like newspapers – a few authors published to many.

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Kapp Notes

JANUARY 4, 2008

Stephen Downes has upped the ante on predictions for 2008 by creating a report card on predictions of 2007. But I do thank him for the time and effort and it has made me more careful with my 2008 prediction which will be released soon. Here is his post. I tried to be more specific.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 11, 2008

CC-NC image of blogs as connectors of ideas in conversations. Models of Blogs: Blog as Participant in Conversation (3 of 3) on Flickr. tags: visualization , blog , conversation , connection. Using Blogs to Enhance Learning – Some Helpful Tips - OpenEducation.net. tags: e-learning , education , blog , web2.0 , assessment.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Several good lines in here–a bunch of memorable ideas packed into a few minutes. IgnitePhilly — Five Minutes To Communicate - Practical Theory. 5 minute presentation (20 slides) by Chris Lehmann on school reform and what we need for School 2.0. Assessment should be projects, not tests.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Questions the whole idea of closed educational systems. 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. tags: facebook , education , e-learning , lms , blackboard , openaccess.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 9, 2008

The idea behind “being yourself&# is not that you have some sort of offline life (though you may). Not just the intuitive common-sense advice you see other places–who else would advise you to quit wasting time playing phone tag offline when you could spend that time making real connections online?

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 29, 2008

There’s some interesting ideas about evaluating success and determining whether students are reading blog posts beyond just how much commenting happens. .&# 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

MAY 30, 2008

IDEA - The International Dialects Of English Archive. Audio primary source collection with international and regional dialects of English. Intended primarily for actors learning to imitate an accent, but could have other educational uses too. tags: primarysources , audio. AU Press - The Theory and Practice of Online Learning (second edition).

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 19, 2008

Nice introduction to these ideas for those who aren’t familiar with the project. Ideas for using social bookmarking for a portfolio, database of people, calendar of events, and more. You could build on this idea by posting the RSS feed from your custom tag to another site where you could control the look and feel.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 1, 2008

Collection of posts and ideas about etiquette and expected behavior in the edublogosphere, including dealing with inappropriate comments, online reputation, and healthy debate. Drape’s Takes: edubloggeretiquette. tags: blog , community , education , citations , reputation. The Learning Circuits Blog: Big Questions.

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 18, 2008

The idea is to take the stuff you do for private audiences and to present it (as much as you can) to public audiences. 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.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

It’s a nice idea on paper, as Clive says, but the reality isn’t generally as clean as the theory. Collection of quotes related to online teaching and learning. tags: quoteable , teaching , learning , e-learning. Clive on Learning: Who re-uses learning objects? A pragmatic view of reusable learning objects.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 18, 2008

Design ideas from someone who says that every part of his blog design is intentional. Sheet music and audio in the public domain. You can hear a random piece or listen to their online radio station too. tags: music , audio , publicdomain. Make Your Blog Design Work For You | chrisbrogan.com.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 13, 2008

&# Rather than going for a fixed definition within the framework of a learning theory, the author argues that connectivism is an emerging concept best understood by looking at how it connects to other ideas and theories. The central metaphor of the network is the unifying element of connectivism.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 19, 2008

Moving from the idea of 21st century skills for learners, this post discusses 21st century skills for teachers. 21st Century Teachers | Educational Origami. The proposed roles for teachers include Adaptor, Communicator, Learner, Visionary, Model, Collaborator, Risk Taker. tags: 21stcenturyskills , teachered , digitalliteracy , education.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 15, 2008

George Siemens further explores the idea of a world without courses in 3 areas: 1. I mean, really, where did we think all of this was going to go? tags: connectivism , conversation , distributedlearning , e-learning , reputation. Conversations and Connections. Reputation and Accreditation.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 30, 2008

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&#. tags: blog.

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Vignettes Learning

JANUARY 29, 2013

In order to know the context, the eLearning developer must first understand the culture and history of its audience. __ I define meaning as the reference point to which a learner connects an idea or knowledge to understandable applications. May 31, 2008. Meaning is the essence of any lesson or knowledge product.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 3, 2008

Dave Ferguson explains at the end of this post his “three links out&# idea. This brings you outside your regular circle of reading so you’re explosed to new people and ideas. You read a post on one of your regular blogs, then click a link (1). From there, click another link (2). From that place, click a third link (3).

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 28, 2008

ASTD TechKnowledge 2008 is coming soon in San Antonio. Now that it's less than a month away, I thought I'd sit down and try to do some conference planning. To help me prepare, I went back to a few previous posts on related topics. I need to figure out what questions I really have for this conference.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Interesting ideas for assessment and supporting diversity. Transcript of a talk about the differences between groups and networks. Downes situates networks between individuals and groups, as a place where individuals are associated and connected but more diverse than groups.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 29, 2008

Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech » Blog Archive » Diigo you have given me a headache. tags: privacy , socialbookmarking. Negative post about Diigo, specifically that new users are apparently asked to import contacts and can end up sending spam to everyone they know. The Connected Classroom: DIG-ging diigo… Annotated.

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Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

Arrived back from the ASTD TechKnowledge 2008 conference late the other night (3:00am) but the conference was worth it. I then caught up with Tom King who I only see at conferences and who has an awesome documentary idea! I got to see a lot of people and make some really good connections.

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Kapp Notes

JANUARY 22, 2009

It really raises the stakes of the predictions but is a great exercise in reflection and revisiting ideas to determine validity and accuracy of scope. You can see his entire list of grades at Last Year's Predictions For 2008, Reviewed. I enjoy his grading of the predictions.it keeps everyone on their toes.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 12, 2008

Nice idea, but I’m not sure that’s practical for most projects–it’s hard enough to convince people to spend time and money on captions and transcripts (even though they obviously should). Written English doesn’t automatically correspond to sign language. tags: accessibility , webdesign.

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 24, 2010

- Leveraging Learning , October 6, 2009 7 Creative Ways to Introduce Social Media to Your Team - Learning Putty , October 22, 2009 10 Tips to Get Started with Twitter - Learn and Lead , April 18, 2009 Coping with Twitter - Learning Conversations , February 26, 2010 Hashtags in Twitter and walls, fountains, ways to keep everyone's remarks in the picture (..)

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Kapp Notes

JANUARY 29, 2014

Mastery learning provides an approach that recognizes that aptitude for learning may be more closely linked to time and perseverance than to abilit y (Bloom, 1971; Melton, 2008). Scaffolding is a concept built upon the idea of the Zone of Proximal Development. Review of Research in Education, Vol. 4 (1976), pp. Melton, K. Merrill, D.

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Litmos

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Kay came up with an idea for the “Dynabook,” a portable computer that would let children learn from anywhere. A study of mobile learning in the workplace written in 2014 discussed the fact that in 2008, many organizations were simply migrating traditional learning content to mobile platforms and leaving their mobile learning strategy at that.

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Association eLearning

MARCH 22, 2017

Ideas such as banging out rhythms to help memorize multiplication tables, or using Legos to teach fractions were applauded during college as the right way to reach all learners. Having obtained a degree in Elementary Education, I was shocked and still skeptical that learning styles was indeed a myth.

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Technology Enhanced Learning Blog

JANUARY 19, 2021

The idea is for an informal ‘group’ to chat and share tips with each other onhow we’re coping and supporting our children with home schooling. Thinking Creatively was about a piece I’d read from Anthony Chivetta, written in 2008. ” Anthony Chivetta.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 24, 2009

If you are contemplating beginning – it might help to look at links that interest you to get some grounding ideas. It is All Fun and Games…And Then Students Learn- Kapp Notes, July 30, 2008. Gadgets, games and gizmos for learning- Clive on Learning, January 29, 2008. More Educational Games- Kapp Notes, August 7, 2008.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 24, 2009

If you are contemplating beginning – it might help to look at links that interest you to get some grounding ideas. It is All Fun and Games…And Then Students Learn- Kapp Notes, July 30, 2008. Gadgets, games and gizmos for learning- Clive on Learning, January 29, 2008. More Educational Games- Kapp Notes, August 7, 2008.

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Kapp Notes

DECEMBER 10, 2013

The idea is to integrate game-based elements more commonly seen in video, entertainment focused or mobile games into instructional environments. The term “gamification” first appeared in 2008 originating in the digital media industry and did not gain widespread recognition until approximately 2010 (Deterding, et. Origin of Term.

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Learning with e's

MAY 31, 2019

Recent ad hoc crowd sourcing projects such as #Blimage have shown that people can learn from each other in a distributed manner, through simple ideas such as sharing images and blogging about them. 2008) Tribes. 2008) Here Comes Everybody. and Williams, A (2008) Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything.

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LearnDash

APRIL 30, 2013

While the facts on this infographic (developed by DistanceLearning.com) are quite fascinating, what I believe is most telling is that from 1998 to 2008 there was a 150% increase in the number of students opting for distance learning courses as part of their regular curriculum. Today, roughly 60% of four-year U.S.

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