learnWorlds

AUGUST 17, 2021

Luckily, there is now an abundance of tools and resources to create attractive new videos filled with your brand messages, as well as an ever-growing community of videographers dedicated to offering great stock photos for downloading, royalty-free music, and video stock footage. 8 Flickr Creative Commons. 21 Pikwizard.

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Rapid eLearning

DECEMBER 15, 2008

Going to a stock image site and looking for just the right pictures can be very time-consuming and a drain on your limited resources. Why not create your own stock images? Obviously, this approach doesn’t work for everyone and taking good photos is an art in itself. Keep the image in focus.

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Friday, October 30, 2009 Finding Good Photos for Your eLearning Scenarios Do you struggle with finding good stock photos to use in your eLearning scenarios? So then do you go do a custom photo shoot? Images and assets aren’t free, but well-priced and worth the investment. Maybe you have the time or the budget.

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LearnDash

OCTOBER 26, 2015

I created this course with my colleague Dr. Peter Terry PhD who has worked as a sport psychologist alongside elite athletes at nine Olympic Games and more than 100 other international events. The strong visual style has been augmented by photos of elite athletes in action. These photos are all open licensed Creative Commons images.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Photo by Steve Wheeler We connect with each other and with information in many ways. I captured the image on this page recently on a Dockland Light Railway train as it sped across East London. You can see just about everyone in the photo is using a smartphone in some way. He's a positive deviant. He's doing things differently.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 12, 2020

Photo by Steve Wheeler In previous posts here and also here , I wrote about how to engage learners in online collaborative writing. I mentioned in a previous post about an introductory activity where each student is encouraged to create a space in which they introduce themselves with a few words and an image that represents them.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 11, 2020

Photo from Pxhere In my previous blog post I remarked that engaging learners can be difficult in any context, but is often harder in online environments. I also mentioned a very useful model that promotes creative, collaboration online writing. They are also asked to post an image which they think best represents themselves.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Photo by Steve Wheeler (Duck by Denise Hudson ) If I didn't know any better I would believe in synchronicity. Graham spoke on creativity and individualism, and to illustrate his key points, he asked us to create a duck using just six pieces of Lego which were distributed to the audience. Let me elaborate. What the duck?

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Learning with e's

MARCH 15, 2019

Photo by Krzyboy2o on Wikimedia Commons This is a post for #OpenBlog19. The event was called 'Show that you Share' and focused on tools such as Creative Commons , personal learning environments and mobile phones as a means of creating, sharing and repurposing content, knowledge and artefacts for education.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 23, 2012

Our social media team of Oliver Quinlan , Edd Bolton and Jason Truscott have been hard at work behind the scenes creating a host of social media platforms to promote the pre-conference discussions and raise awareness of the event. Create, connect, collaborate by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

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Mindflash

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Photos, sound files and video clips are always great ways to liven up great presentations. For people creating training content, there’s an added bonus: adding media also helps boost retention. A few quick examples: Photos. Adding Images. Browse for the image you want, and then select it. Adding Audio.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Ask your students to create icons or images representing these newly discovered senses. They could use cameras, graphics software, a combination of these, or some other tools to create and capture their illustrations. 3) Commons Touch: Ask students to submit two or three good quality images to Wikimedia Commons.

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Learning with e's

JULY 17, 2019

Photo by NASA on Wikimedia Commons This week we celebrate 50 years since the launch of Apollo 11. Computer Mouse During the 1960s, researchers working at NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration) were trying to create better interactivity for computer/user interfaces.

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Adobe Captivate

JANUARY 27, 2018

Music can be a challenge, but many sites offer free music under a creative commons license. You can select music clips that you can combine to create music that truly fits. I have used several compositions that I created on my iPad. They have over 100,000 completely free images which you can use without attribution.

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Learning with e's

JULY 8, 2016

HTC Vive in action - Photo by Steve Wheeler At the JISC Connect More event held in Cheltenham recently, a number of futuristic technologies were on display for delegates to experience. The capability of the system to allow you to render 3D images and then view them from all angles and perspectives was quite a powerful effect.

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Learning with e's

MAY 31, 2019

Photo by Steve Wheeler In a previous post I outlined some of the metrics around the use of digital media, technologies and social networks. Connected students can become the nodes of their own production, and are creating more content than ever before as they perform their learning for global audiences." Tapscott, D. Unported License.

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Technology Enhanced Learning Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Stock photos : most of us can spot these a mile off, so it’s a safe bet the learner can too. I try and use good quality royalty free images available under a Creative Commons license, but I am also conscious that they may fall into the trap I describe above. Image source: astrid westvang (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 ).

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Learning with e's

MAY 7, 2020

Photo by Marcus Aurelius on Pexels What fresh kind of hell is this? When she eventually gets her camera to work all you and the kids get to see is a blurry close up of her knitted cardigan and the image is jumping all over the place, yet you still have to listen politely as she complains about her lumbago. Yes, video call fatigue.

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Learning with e's

JULY 29, 2019

Photo by Florian Klauer on unsplash I have been privileged over the past few years to have garnered a good audience for my writing. All this has been possible because they are all labelled as Creative Commons with a repurpose licence. 2005) Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity. As this blog approaches 8.5

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 21, 2013

They also encompass hyperlinks, sounds, videos, and images. Specifically, the session focused on images as narrative, and all of the group managed to create some impressive and in some cases stunning image sequences. This image is of a man looking out over the sea, in a coastal village in the Gambia.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 1, 2017

Its melodies and the images it painted in my mind have stayed with me all of my life. If we were each to create a collage of all those who have influenced us from our early years, who might we include? Better still, if your students created their own life-collages, would you appear in them as an important influence?

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Learning with e's

MARCH 7, 2013

Universiteit Hasselt takes some innovative approaches to education including its refurbishment of an old prison to create a bright and airy new learning space for its law faculty students. In one of the common areas, I saw this study plinth and simply had to capture this image to share it. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MAY 30, 2019

Photo by Steve Wheeler This is the first of a short series of posts, presenting my thoughts leading up to a keynote speech I will give at EDEN 2019, in Bruges. Connected students can become the nodes of their own production, and are creating more content than ever before as they perform their learning for global audiences.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 14, 2014

He had worked on this for many hours, rendering the scenes and creating the buildings and backgrounds. Some of Boston''s friends were re-creating their school in Minecraft, building by building, exactly to scale. He said he now understood a lot more about what had caused it and who the major players were. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 9, 2017

Image from National Photo Library on Flickr As my colleagues at Plymouth Institute of Education make their way back to work, and I sit gazing, relaxed (and retired) from the sidelines, I have mixed emotions. It can be nicely applied to digital environments as an explanation of the ways people create a work-life balance.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Paivio''s model of cognition featured two modes of processing, known as imagens (images) and logogens (words), which are illustrated below. Visual and verbal information are processed in different ways along discrete pathways in the brain, and these are thought to create different mental representations. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 24, 2012

Facebook is already the world's largest photo repository, and with almost 850 million accounts and over 100 billion connections, has to be one of the most influential communications devices ever created to bring people together. My view is that in the social media universe, blogging is potentially the most powerful tool.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

The 20th Century was the century of the moving image. From cinema, through to television, the experience of media was defined by an amalgamation of sound and vision. This combination was not only the mainstay for entertainment and commerce, it also became the technological touchstone for many courses and programmes of study.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 23, 2015

Recently, in the wake of the #blimage blogging challenge I've been thinking about the power of photos and images. I have quite a collection of selfies and other photos of me with people who have either inspired me or influenced my thinking in some way. In the centre of the photo is Joyce Seitzinger. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

The 20th Century was the century of the moving image. From cinema, through to television, the experience of media was defined by an amalgamation of sound and vision. This combination was not only the mainstay for entertainment and commerce, it also became the technological touchstone for many courses and programmes of study.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Photo from Pixabay Or in other words. There is usually a click bait headline and/or image that has little or no connection to the actual content. They make money off people's curiosity, and this only encourages them to create more crappy content for us to consume. That's my response to a lot of news headlines these days.

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Learning with e's

JULY 12, 2018

Image by Martin42 on Wikimedia Commons When I read Being Digital for the first time, way back in 1997, it slowly dawned on me that everything was about to change. Now, anyone could be their own publisher or producer, create an online learning space or a blog, share videos, photos, music - any content that could be digitised.

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Marcia Conner

MARCH 28, 2013

Also take a look at some of the lists I’ve created to more closely listen to groups and topics. I use this nifty tool to create a running queue of quotations that “drip” into my stream over time no matter what I’ve posted directly or through Buffer. The creators of this tool also created JustUnFollow.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 20, 2012

It's all over for another year, but I really believe that this year's Plymouth Enhanced Learning Conference really lived up to its theme - create, connect, collaborate. In brief, here are a few of the artefacts created: The Instagram collection of photos itself is richly representative of the event from start to finish.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 10, 2017

My base was iNLAB - a purpose built unit designed specifically to promote ideation - creative thinking and innovation. The image on this page is the communal area where students and staff can take breaks. How can blogs be used to encourage create thinking in education? How could they be designed better? Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 28, 2013

It is of course possible in traditional classrooms to create opportunities for learning to be driven by learners, where collaborative and cooperative learning can be facilitated, and where students can move around the room as they investigate and experiment, create and discuss. Unported License. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JULY 12, 2017

Photo from LSE Library on Flickr Most of the students starting university at the end of summer 2017 were born around the turn of the century. The future of work will heavily feature knowledge working, where people will be working on the move, using technology to connect, communicate and create. It's a sobering thought.

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