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JUNE 17, 2011

Brainy Betty offers sound files that are perfect to insert into PowerPoint for many uses. Danosongs run by Dan O’Connor and has his creative commons free royalty free music for production site. FreeSFX is a UK based side where you can download free sound effects. Download royalty free music!

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JANUARY 28, 2018

Photo by Ilmicrofono Oggiono on Flickr It was heart-warming to see so many passionate educators at the recent BETT Show in London. 8) The creative elements of script writing, interviewing and sound recording/broadcast can be directly transferrable into other learning activities. 7) School Radio can boost confidence.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2016

My list of websites with free images, sounds and videos. A website with free resources images, sounds, backgrounds. Death to the stock photo. You can signup for free and you will get a pack of free photos in your email every month. A website with links to other free stock photo and video websites. Free photos.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Photo from Wikimedia Commons Predictably, the ideas that dominated at Learning Technologies 2019 (#LT19uk) were mostly on new and emerging technologies. It sounded like a hackneyed line from an old 1970s TV sitcom script. Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) cropped up several times during sessions across the event.

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Learning with e's

JULY 18, 2019

Photo by Samuel Seller on unsplash Virtual Reality (VR), some might argue, has yet to live up to the hype. However, the concept behind VR - simulation - is a sound and successfully used method of training in many fields of work. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Photo from Needpix This is the first in the #BrainTime series on the effects of time on the human mind. Those are strange enough, as are auditory hallucinations, as are the incredible effects of 4DX cinema Surround sound that you can experience at the big screen venues. They're all great and they are quite intriguing. Unported License.

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APRIL 5, 2014

This might sound like a paradox, but essentially, with all the digital tools we now have at our disposal, we can connect like never before, and create our own powerful social networks. This was a very impressive feat and they are all great reading. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

Photo by Ramakant Sharda on unsplash Teachers do their best. They need critical thinking skills, a sound knowledge base, literacy and numeracy skills, and they need to be given freedom to express their creativity. I know they do. I know teachers do their best, and I know the pressure they are under. Unported License.

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AUGUST 31, 2017

Photo from Wikimedia Commons I recently visited the Science Gallery in Dublin where they had several exhibits dedicated to sonic science - the science (and art) of making sounds. The percussive sounds of the DX7 were particularly impressive, and the grand piano, pipe organ and bell voices were very realistic.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 25, 2014

Student work on data logging light and sound levels I caught up with Stephen and spent some time discussing these ideas with him on his stand at Bett. One of the Big Data projects he showed me involved children using free downloadable light and sound metre apps to measure their environment around them. Unported License.

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DECEMBER 3, 2014

On the second day of the project they assembled their images and videos together, added sound effects and music, and then presented their videos to their peers and the module tutors for feedback. Plymouth has a rich heritage and is steeped in history. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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JANUARY 20, 2014

After a while, because it comes from me, it tends to sound like hyperbole, and I''m sure some of my audience leave with a ''so what?'' Photo by Pedro Ribiero Simoes on Wikimedia Commons Student voices by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Mindflash

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Photos, sound files and video clips are always great ways to liven up great presentations. A few quick examples: Photos. A retail clerk needs to categorize items rung up at the point of sale — photos of the inventory aid in product recognition. First, a Few Ground Rules. Use An Easy Web Imagine Library.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 24, 2017

Photo from Wikimedia Commons Coach class by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 There's a wonderful scene in the 1981 movie Chariots of Fire. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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MARCH 14, 2014

They were using iPad apps to create and then capture context aware images, that connected them directly to sites displaying to their own photos. They showed me how they planned to merge their own photos with the pictures they had made of animals, to create a new type of synthetic art. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MAY 1, 2016

Each of these stars has left behind a legacy of their work, in the form of sound recordings, movies, interviews and videos of their performances. Many teachers don't leave movies or videos or sound recordings behind when they shuffle off this mortal coil do they? The list could go on - and sadly it probably will - as 2016 plays out.

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Learning with e's

MAY 7, 2020

Photo by Marcus Aurelius on Pexels What fresh kind of hell is this? and if you can get a picture and sound that's usable, and there's no pixellation or latency. Zoom, webinars and anti-emetics by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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JANUARY 6, 2020

Photo from Wikimedia Commons George Armstrong Custer was a jack the lad. On more than one occasion he was demoted or stopped from progressing through the ranks because of his 'lack of sound judgement'. He was unconventional, rebelling against authority throughout his life. And yet he was a brilliant military commander.

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MAY 24, 2014

Phonetic level: This is a deeper level of processing where we listen to the sound of the word. Structural level: This is a shallow layer of processing where we only pay attention to the outward appearance of a word (e.g. its morphology). Semantic level: This is the deepest level of processing where we consider the meaning of the word.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Photo by Devon van Rensburg on unsplash Plato was a Greek philosopher who had a splendidly long beard. Releasing him potentially causes more harm than keeping him where he is, safe and sound in his deluded little spot inside the cave. He was the hipster of philosophers (what? Why don't you go out and get yourself a proper job?"

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Learning with e's

JUNE 28, 2013

This is the concept behind vision immersion, where 360 degree projection and surround sound provide enhanced sensory experience. Audiences sit in cinema style seats, and their field of vision is saturated by the images, supplemented by surround sound. Sit there for long enough and you feel like the entire room is moving around you.

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AUGUST 10, 2016

It might sound like I live in the past, having spent two thirds of my life looking back on the development and history of educational technology, but I have an eye always on future developments. Used properly, there is no doubt that it can be an amazing platform and something that should be embraced rather than feared.” Unported License.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Communities of Practice are described as groups of people who share a common interest and can be instrumental as a network within which learning can take place because of the critical mass of contributions from the group''s members. PLNs and CoPs sound so similar, we could be forgiven for thinking that they are more or less synonymous.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

This is not as easy as it sounds. In small groups they were asked to design and construct a Lego robot , and then program it to race around a circuit, with a prize for the winners! There are a myriad of problems to solve. What features do racing robots need, to achieve success and win the race? Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MAY 20, 2015

I have written a lot about Personal Learning Environments in the past, especially when they were emerging as a concept, and sounded quite new. Photo by Jourixia on Deviant Art Up close and personal by Steve Wheeler was written in Preston, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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AUGUST 31, 2015

In this photo I'm with Jay Cross and Graham Attwell, at a conference in Salzburg, Austria. Photo source unknown Selfie number 4 by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Previous selfie posts can also be viewed on this blog.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 21, 2013

They also encompass hyperlinks, sounds, videos, and images. I couldn't resist capturing the photo, because it was so iconic and representative of the children in this part of the world, and it conveyed innocence and hope. Blogs are not simply about text. Blogging is also about telling your story. Now they can go to school.

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JANUARY 8, 2013

It takes live views of the real world around you and augments them with computer generated sensory information such as graphics, data, video or sound. What educators do with them next, is really down to each individual's creativity and imagination. Photo by Steve Wheeler Where AR we now? Unported License.

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JANUARY 16, 2011

The next day I posted his picture onto my Flickr account and licenced it under Creative Commons for free sharing and re-use. Subsequently others loaded it up in several versions to Wikimedia Commons. My photo even graces his Wikipedia page (in all language versions). It's an example of a picture going viral on the web.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

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

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FEBRUARY 17, 2016

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

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FEBRUARY 11, 2016

My technical team would supply projectors for slides (Kodak Carousels), 16mm film (see the image above) and filmstrip, occasionally accompanied by an audio cassette player, where you changed the slides each time a tone sounded on the sound track. More tomorrow on educational technology 40 years ago. Unported License.

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JULY 6, 2017

And yet these claims are swallowed whole by a lot of people, because they sound convenient , and they neatly fit into our assumptions about how children use the web, technology and other digital tools. Many schools take online safety very seriously, and won't even allow photos to be taken of them within school settings.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Photo by Leslie Seaton on Flickr I submitted my manuscript for Digital Learning in Organisations to my publishers today. It also seemed to vibrate as I picked it up, and I thought I could hear a faint buzzing sound. I published a brief synopsis of what can be expected last week, and also unveiled the front cover graphics.

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OCTOBER 3, 2015

Then there was Maria von Trapp (played by Julie Andrews in the movie musical The Sound of Music. She used a combination of sounds, imagery and mnemonics to teach the children to sing. Look, I'm being serious here - kind of). She could have taught them to sing anything using this method - even Firestarter. Unported License.

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DECEMBER 10, 2012

It can be used in whatever content they create to show what they have learnt in the form of text, images, sounds and video. Photo by Rod Senna Things ain't what they used to be by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Things ain't what they used to be.

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APRIL 27, 2016

Many sound bites from his talk can be seen on the Twitter #EEES613 hashtag. Nick's entire lecture is available to view on YouTube below: Photo by Hans Hillewaert on Wikimedia Commons #LearningIs making by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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