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

OCTOBER 18, 2014

These tools, services and technologies become a part of your personal learning environment or PLE. You can trawl the Web (using your PLE tools) and discover many videos, websites and blogs that focus largely on PLEs and their place in education. The PLE is an approach rather than a technology. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 8, 2013

Should we use centralised services and endure all the constraints that accompany them, or should we instead use our own patchwork collection of tools, loosely aggregated social media and handheld personal devices that give us freedom, but at a price? Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 3, 2018

One of the sites I discovered more recently is TeachThought's WeGrowTeachers site which is a blog run by teachers with a mission statement to provide world class global professional development from a personalised perspective. 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

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Once such person was Melissa Highton , who as Director of Learning, Teaching and Web Services at the University of Edinburgh, is in a unique position to shape the future learning and research practices of a generation of scholars. Listen in as we discuss these and many more ideas about the future of learning and education. Unported License.

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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

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Editor) If you're on the naughty list - and I suspect you are, if you read this blog regularly - then your goose is cooked. Noah's necessary whale Santa's marginalised reindeer by Steve Wheeler was written at the North Pole and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

That year, one or two students from the group were courageous enough to accept my challenge, and submitted blogs. Last year, several more students submitted their assignments in blog format, and one or two created videos as their assignments. Would a hyperlink in a blog be equivalent to a reference in an essay? Unported License.

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Rapid eLearning

MARCH 22, 2016

Before we get started, here is a list of sites that offer free audio sound effects that I featured in a previous blog post. Vimeo : music library of Creative Common music. BenSound : one of the best organized sites; songs under creative commons or you can pay for less restrictive licensing. Can’t beat that.

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JANUARY 27, 2018

Music can be a challenge, but many sites offer free music under a creative commons license. They offer an annual subscription to their service which works out to about $100 a year or so. With Storyblocks, I don’t need to worry about all the attribution rules that many creative commons sites require.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 12, 2010

I have been receiving a lot of requests lately to publish blog posts from freelance writers. They weren't very good, they looked rather formulaic, and as I suspected, many of them were trying to plug some kind of product or service. Some of the more subtle ones merely eulogised over the product or service without endorsing it.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Blogs rely not only on content, but on users, and ultimately on the dialogue that ensues between all those who read the content. has marked a shift in emphasis from the personal computer to the web, and the services it conveys. In the next blog post, I will attempt to describe what we can expect from Learning 3.0 and a Web 2.0,

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Learning with e's

MARCH 4, 2013

The Quadblogging project which first began life in a small school in Bolton, North West England, is now a global phenomenon, with children in many countries blogging their stories, conversing across continents and sharing their imagination. A similar effect is seen in the 100 Word Challenge , and in other similar school related blog projects.

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Mindflash

DECEMBER 6, 2011

What new products or services would inspire customer loyalty? They communicate with customers about service, the quality of products and the ease of shopping. They hear what products or services are working well, which aren’t, and what’s missing that customers need. What culture changes would inspire greater loyalty?

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Learning with e's

APRIL 14, 2015

Recently I''ve been receiving a lot of requests to publish blog posts from freelance writers. The ''guest posts'' weren''t written very well at all, looked rather formulaic, and as I suspected, many of them were trying to plug some kind of product or service. I have a message for these parasites: Blog off! I need to disinfect.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 9, 2014

Blogging can be used to engage children in creative writing , while making videos is excellent for problem solving and collaborative work. Students don''t like them because they are impersonal, not easy to navigate, and are a pale comparison of their weapons of choice - social networking services such as Facebook.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

This is a continuation of my short series on the future of higher education, and builds on yesterday''s blog post on why Social Web tools are useful to support student learning. Appropriate professional development, support services and dialogue with experts will invariably overcome many of these issues (John and Wheeler, 2008).

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 5, 2010

When I write a blog post for example, I am creating new content as I write, and then in turn, that content may reveal to me something I may have missed if I had not written the post. The blog content allows me perhaps to view a problem from a different perspective. There are many other ways to create content besides the blog of course.

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Mindflash

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

began as a way to differentiate products and services offered electronically from their analog predecessors. Not all educators have bought in to the concept of e-learning,” Venable writes in her blog. “So Click here to read the blog post in full. ” Image used under Creative Commons by Flickr user rachaelvoorhees.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 23, 2010

A blog post I read recently reported that one US professor is now considering preventing his students from making notes during his lectures, because this action infringes his intellectual property! Increasingly academics are making their ideas freely available on blogs, social networks and other sharing sites. Don't misundertand me.

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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. Around 2007 we started using blogs to support several of our student teacher groups that were geographically dispersed across the South of England. Some were itinerant because of the nature of their jobs.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

I promised I would continue the review today, right here on this blog, so here goes. The paper concludes that although some reflective content was created by students, blogs do not naturally promote deeper forms of reflection without some scaffolding through tutor intervention. Sounds like two worlds are about to collide.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 11, 2012

In today's fast paced and change ridden world, learners need now, like never before, to be able to connect through technology to peers, experts, content and services. by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Firstly, learners need to be able to connect. Unported License.

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Mindflash

MAY 24, 2012

They care about having the service they provide exceed the service provided by their competition. I think that people reading this blog are, by nature, probably ahead of the curve in these areas. Image used under Creative Commons by Flickr user dno1967b. Training is simply a means to that end.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 8, 2010

The video sharing service YouTube's usage statistics should convince even the strongest sceptic that people really want to share their content. The photosharing service Flickr claims that between 3-5 million images are uploaded every day, and hosts well in excess of 2 billion photographs and other media such as short video clips.

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Mindflash

DECEMBER 16, 2011

training expenditures—including payroll and spending on external products and services—jumped 13 percent to $59.7 billion, and spending on outside products and services jumped more than $2 billion to $9.1 Image used under Creative Commons by Flickr user LaMenta3. billion to $31.3 billion.”. • Are they interested?

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Mindflash

MARCH 14, 2012

When I started at my position as chief performance officer at an e-marketing agency nine months ago, the company’s products and services were good. These may be through webinars, journals, periodicals, blogs, or events. Image used under Creative Commons by Flickr user Robert Scoble. Its business strategy was sound.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 10, 2013

I have previously written on this blog about how mobile technology can give the edge and also about some of the social implications of learning on the move. The simple ability to seek and locate others through the GPS service on your mobile phone will also allow you to bumpshare content or personal contact details using another app.

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Mindflash

APRIL 2, 2012

As recently as seven years ago, one of the largest groups of companies consuming sales training were in the high technology industries such as telecommunications, software, hardware and related services. This post, written by Al Case, ESR’s Principal Analyst and Research Fellow, first appeared on Stein’s blog.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 29, 2012

In fact it did so several years ago, even before the introduction of social media, through the use of e-mail and bulletin board services (remember them?). Twitter feed into your blog, or Facebook links mirrored in LinkedIn) means that teachers are never alone. Other networks are available. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JULY 22, 2010

Students now have the capability to create and share their own content through blogs, wikis, video- and photo-sharing services such as YouTube and Flickr. Image source New spaces, new pedagogies by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JULY 24, 2010

Some are turning their back completely on the hard nosed, monetizing operation that is global publishing, and are instead using free tools such as blogs and other social media services to publish their work. We should make our knowledge freely available to anyone who wants to read it using free and open services.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 11, 2011

I doubt if there is anyone reading this blog who has not used Wikipedia in some way in the last 12 months. And that is where services such as Wikipedia come in. by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Well, OK - also one or two others.). Who are the Wikipedians?

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 24, 2012

This is number 4 in the series of blog posts entitled 'Shaping Education for the Future.' My own students create a lot of their own content during their study, usually in the form of podcasts, videos, wiki and blog content, and are encouraged to share these publicly online to gain additional feedback. The web is constantly changing.

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Mindflash

MARCH 30, 2012

Freakonomics co-author Stephen Dubner used his blog to jump on the Surowiecki bandwagon , using the piece to talk about his own experiences at Whole Foods Market and Michaels supermarkets. Image used under Creative Commons by Flickr user Ed Yourdon. Several others jumped into the debate as well.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Blog: Blogging is arguably one of the most powerful tools for global education. I have already written a great deal about the power of blogging, so I won't elaborate too much here. The comments boxes below each post support dialogue, and the tagging feature on most blogs enables easier search for content.

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Learning with e's

MAY 3, 2015

Students or scholars who blog regularly will tell you that it clarifies their thinking, and when they decide to press the publish button, a waiting audience of readers will comment and challenge their thinking further. Technology is opening up this kind of learning dramatically. Unported License.

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