Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

In a recent blog post, I gave seven reasons why teachers should blog. It was subsequently expanded to 10 good reasons by the contributions from readers - which is actually an eleventh reason why teachers should blog - you get back such great comments, suggestions, arguments and advice, it would be crazy not to share your content.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 30, 2010

Anyone who blogs regularly will have discovered several truths. Many people struggle to maintain a regular blog that is consistently good, or at least meaningful. Although you are only as good as your last blog, all your previously blogs are also out there, archived, published for people to read (and for you to revisit, if you wish).

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Kitaboo

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Education requires the use of resources like textbooks, audiovisual media, activities, and other aspects. However, education today has evolved into the ambit of digitality. However, education today has evolved into the ambit of digitality. These resources are helping the modern learner make the most of their educational journey.

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CourseArc

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Top books, blogs, videos, and more to excel as an instructional designer. Instructional design is the thoughtful application of design aspects — like color theory, typography, and user experience — to create educational resources. Look for details about Cathy Moore’s blog below). Blogs, Videos, and Podcasts.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 15, 2012

Argyll and Bute's attempts to censor a 9 year old blogging about her school dinners backfired spectacularly when they were forced to very publicly retract their original decision. The Argyll and Bute council officials thought that newspaper coverage of the 9 year old's blog was causing catering staff to fear for their jobs.

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Kitaboo

OCTOBER 31, 2023

In the realm of higher education, the effective management of teaching materials is critical to cultivating an enriching and dynamic learning environment. As an educator, you are confronted with the multifaceted challenges and opportunities inherent in the intricate landscape of teaching materials management systems (TMMSs).

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 15, 2015

The challenge was simple - you shared an image with a friend (or three) and challenged them to write a short, learning related blog about it. blimage = blog + image. Some have returned to blogging after a long time away, and others have been encouraged to blog for the very first time. In fact it's a video.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 5, 2012

If you are considering taking up blogging this year, and wondering what it might involve, I would be happy to offer you a few tips from my own experience. I have been blogging for just over 5 years and during that time have learnt a few things. Firstly, blogging can be time consuming. But don't let that put you off - join in.

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Kitaboo

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Gone are the days when education was all about reading from textbooks. Modern-day education involves the use of amazing virtual reality experiences , interactive modules, and other tech-savvy resources to make learning fun and engaging. That’s what we call educational content licensing. Table of Contents: I. Wrapping Up!

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Thursday, February 12, 2009 My Blogs Personality Type Well, it isnt very glamorous or creative sounding. But I suppose this is an appropriate description of my blogs personality? Check out your own blogs writing style at Typealyzer. And please, dont leave my blog alone. My blog is ISTP. And comments.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 30, 2010

Anyone who blogs regularly will have discovered several truths. Many people struggle to maintain a regular blog that is consistently good, or at least meaningful. Although you are only as good as your last blog, all your previously blogs are also out there, archived, published for people to read (and for you to revisit, if you wish).

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Learning with e's

JUNE 14, 2020

All forms of education require learners to engage, but when teachers and their students are separated by geographical distance, the challenges increase. Asynchronous communication is time-shifted - e-mail, text messages and standard mail (correspondence courses were one of the first forms of distance education). Unported License.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 25, 2008

Tuesday, March 25, 2008 Jott This Blog I havent had so much time lately to blog, as this project Im working on has been quite grueling. I find my best time for thinking up excellent blog entries is late at night when Im lying in bed. I am calling this blog entry in on my cellphone as I drive. I know, its a bit ridiculous.

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Learning with e's

JULY 31, 2019

Photo by StemT4L on unsplash Many teachers by now will be familiar with blogging for education projects that encourage children to write. If you haven't heard of any, then take a look at David Mitchell's Quadblogging project which encourages schools to team up to create audiences for students' blogs. Unported License.

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Learning Visions

MAY 30, 2007

Wednesday, May 30, 2007 Blogging is the new Graduate School Im not the only one getting an informal masters degree out here. In a guest post on the Brazen Careerist, Ryan Healy writes, "maybe blogging is the new graduate school." If you offer intelligent opinions or advice on a credible blog, then you are an expert.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 7, 2016

One way I stay connected with the community and what’s happening in the field is by reading blogs by instructional designers, elearning professionals, and educators. If you don’t want to subscribe to all these blogs individually, check out eLearning Learning. This is my favorite blog aggregator in the field.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 13, 2020

It has been quite a long time since my last blog post (more than 6 weeks!). There are several reasons for this, but perhaps the most important one is that I have been spending my time writing. I'm used to writing academic content, papers, conference papers, keynote speeches, chapter for books, peer reviewed journal articles.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 29, 2007

Thursday, March 29, 2007 Blogging & Boundaries in the Professional Sphere Karyn Romeis recent post echoed stuff thats been rolling around in my mind about blogging, professionalism, sharing, confidentiality, roles, boundaries, etc. Why am I blogging about e-Learning, and not about my kids or gardening? (Im By default.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 15, 2019

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. I care about the education of people, whatever their age, and I want to share what I know.

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CourseArc

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Why an Open Educational Resources Model Means More Opportunities for All Learners. Like many inside and outside the education system in the United States and globally, the cry for equity has been bellowed for years. Take the movement for Open Educational Resources, or OER, for example. OER for Precedent. Our system is broken.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 1, 2014

Thank you to all those who read and commented on my blog post on April 1st. I''m not really going to stop blogging. I used April Fool''s day to explore many of the issues that confront educational bloggers. Challenging as it may be to sustain writing at a high level of quality (most of us don''t succeed!),

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Learning with e's

JUNE 12, 2020

There are many, many ways to do this of course, and in this series of blog posts I will aim to explore a few methods that I have tried with success in engaging my own students. International Journal of Educational Technologies , 1 (2/3), 147-166. 2009) Destructive creativity on the social web. References Gunawardena, C.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 1, 2016

Previous posts in this series tracked the development of educational technology over 40 years. I first started working in the field of educational technology in January 1976, at a time when technology was used more for teaching than it was for learning. 2006 was also the year Twitter was launched.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

This is a continuation from yesterday''s blog post on changing times and the survival of higher education. Below are four reasons why the Social Web and associated media are changing higher education. British Journal of Educational Technology , 39(6), 987-995. Digital Learning: Repurposing Education. Wheeler, S.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

In my most recent post I outlined the first part of the SAMR model , which I used as a lens to explore the integration of new technologies into education. Blogging for example, provides students with a potentially very large audience for their writing. Previously, essay writing was for an audience of one - the teacher/assessor.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 7, 2007

Tuesday, August 07, 2007 31 Days to a Better Blog: Days 4, 5, 6, 7, & 8 This whole 31 Days to a Better Blog exercise is proving harder to stay on top of than I had even imagined. Well, I didnt even have an About This Blog Page. Day 7: Plan a Weeks Worth of Blog Posts. Im not trying to make money off this blog.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

In effect, through the use of social media and telecommunication technologies, these teachers are becoming global educators. I consider myself a global educator and have tried to articulate my ideas on why this is a different role to traditional teaching. Blog: Blogging is arguably one of the most powerful tools for global education.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 8, 2014

This is a continuation from yesterday''s post on changing roles , disruptive innovation and the survival of higher education. The Social Web is comprised of software that enables people to both read from, and write onto web spaces. BMC Medical Education 6, 41. Changing Times It is now time to take stock. or the ‘social web’.

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TechSmith Camtasia

AUGUST 21, 2014

It’s back-to-school season for most educators and this year, the TechSmith Education team is writing a series of blog posts with some ideas for the classroom. Let’s be honest, writing sub plans takes way more time than writing normal lesson plans. Teach When You’re Absent. So, why not record a video?

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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. International Journal of Educational Technologies , 1 (2/3), 147-166.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 29, 2014

But what to write? I had been thinking for a while about the potential to create a book based on some of my more substantive blog posts, and so it was a serendipitous moment when I was approached by a publisher after one of my keynotes earlier this year. My book is about educational theory and practice. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JULY 30, 2015

For the uninitiated, #blimage (blog-image) is a game we started to encourage learning professionals to blog. You are sent an image which you then have to write about, metaphorically or literally. At the end of your blog post you then challenge some of your friends with another image, of your own choice. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

One of my earliest jobs back in the 1980s was managing the educational technology and learning resources for several nurse education centres across the South West of England. Exploring medical technologies by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

MARCH 3, 2018

Image from Wikimedia Commons For the # EduGoalsMOOC Twitter chat today, I have compiled a short list of useful resources that relate to the use of technology in education, and specifically technology integration. Some of the videos it offers are particularly useful to teachers in all sectors of education. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 30, 2011

Reading Edupunks, Edupreneurs and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education by Anya Kamenetz has been fascinating. Her key message is simple - that education needs to change to make it more accessible to those who want to, but cannot afford to enter into full time higher education.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 4, 2011

One of the perennial problems teachers face, especially in early years education, is trying to get children to write. The main problem is that children are expected to write in a vacuum, for an audience of one (the teacher). In an article entitled Could blogging be the key to raising a generation of great writers?

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Learning with e's

JULY 20, 2015

I'm always looking for new ideas to promote blogging for teachers. For me and countless others, blogging is a very important part of professional practice, and I have written extensively about its benefits for teachers in articles such as 7 reasons teachers should blo g and The truth about blogging. See what you can make of it!

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