Learning with e's

MARCH 29, 2020

Photo source: Lyncconf Games on Flickr The rapid spread of the Coronavirus and the subsequent social lock-downs by many governments has meant that technology has been thrust to the forefront in many of our daily human activities. This might normally be music to the ears of yer regular humanist, but such gloating would be premature.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Can a 5 minute video contain the same level and quality of academic discussion as a 2000 word essay? How difficult is it for example, to put a voice-over track or a music track onto a video, or overlay captions? Photo from Wikimedia Commons Digital assignments: How shall we grade them? Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 12, 2014

I believe it has also made me more creative. The publishing world, the music and film industries, even large corporates, all must sit up and take notice of people power, because the Web facilitates this, and in doing so provides a very powerful alternative for creation, repurposing, organisation and distribution of new content.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 3, 2015

Then there was Maria von Trapp (played by Julie Andrews in the movie musical The Sound of Music. They may have discussed the history of bottle water, its cultural impact, or even debated the plastic bottle in terms of how easy it would be to recycle its component parts. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 17, 2013

Each programme features an interview with a celebrity, who is invited to bring a list of their 8 favourite music tracks and during the show they talk about why they chose them, thereby giving their listening audience an insight into their lives. Unported License. The secret of the programme is in its simplicity. 5) YouTube.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Reflection on their work is also valuable for both the teacher and the student because it builds up common threads of discussion. In English, students can do quick concept maps or plot maps when discussing a piece of reading. Students can improvise on a theme in music or play with ingredients in Home Econ.

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Learning with e's

MAY 7, 2015

Knowledge can be negotiated using open repository systems such as wikis, blogs and discussion forums. Knowledge can be represented in many forms on the web including through still or moving image sequences, text and spoken words, music, and of course through hypertext. Unported License.

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