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Connected pedagogy: Social networks

Learning with e's

Photo by Steve Wheeler In a previous post I outlined some of the metrics around the use of digital media, technologies and social networks. I wrote that: "The age of social technologies has radically transformed the way we live our lives, and that includes how we learn and teach. 2002) Smartmobs: The Next Social Revolution.

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#CoronaVirus, class closures and communication

Learning with e's

Photo by Pxhere At the time of writing, the Coronavirus pandemic is taking hold in many countries across the globe, and predictably, one of the many actions people are taking is social distancing. Plenty of Creative Commons licensed content and Open Educational Resource material is already available on the Web. Unported License.

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17 Best Royalty-Free Music Sites for Video Courses

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And while it may be obvious that your course should offer highly educational and engaging content with a balance between video and text, what about the audio? We’re talking about adding some flair to your videos with audio. Audio Jungle AudioJungle is part of the Envato Market, where you can find top-quality music starting from $1.

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Face to face - at a distance

Learning with e's

The dominant method was correspondence courses (paper based resources, audio cassette tapes, VHS videos and eventually CDs were mailed out to students), but once the Web had begun to take hold in the early 90s, we started developing multi-user domains (basically very primitive online discussion forums). Unported License.

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Top Five Tips to Create Accessible Content

CourseArc

For people who are deaf or hard of hearing, closed captioning provides the narration of the audio. When you use descriptive transcription, there is no need to also do a separate basic transcription since descriptive transcriptions capture both audio and visual information. Audio Transcript. Audio Transcript.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Audio in eLearning: Cultural Differences?

Learning Visions

Tuesday, May 12, 2009 Audio in eLearning: Cultural Differences? Whats your take on using audio in eLearning? Do you use audio on every slide because the client says people will think its broken if you dont? Weve taken this up before and many of us IDs know the strategies for using audio most effectively by now.

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Tools for conviviality? Illich and social media

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Ivan Illich hoped for a time when the transmission model of education, or ''funnels'', would be replaced by ''educational webs'' - his notion of what we now recognise as social networks. What would Illich have made of the social web? I wrote a post about the contrast between educational funnels and webs in 2011. was emerging.