Learning with e's

APRIL 21, 2018

Image from Pxhere In March I posted a survey question as a part of my ongoing research into the adoption of new technologies in learning. The survey question was really a way to confirm whether or not my hypothesis was sound. Unported License. I was asked about innovation in organisations. Barriers to innovation?

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FEBRUARY 28, 2016

Images are expensive, and you do not want to violate copyrights. Finding good images that you are allowed to use can be a challenge. Here is a list with free services to images and other resources that you are allowed to use. Copyright free images via search engines. A website with free images (no photos).

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Learning with e's

MAY 21, 2018

Better still, use images and other evocative visuals to support your presentation. Images almost always evoke better memories than text. You can do this in various ways, by reinforcing your points with images, video, sound, or repeating important words or phrases. Unported License. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Image source: Chicago Sunday Tribune Back in 1959, when television was still monochrome, and movie films ruled the entertainment industry, people were already dreaming about how we could capture the moving image for home use. The text from this image reveals a lot about the hopes and aspirations of futurists in 1959.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 13, 2015

This sounds like the narcissism depicted in the welter of Hollywood feature films that have been released in recent years, such as Chappie , I, Robot and Ex Machina. Unported License. But robots that actually walk and behave like us? Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 27, 2019

Image from Emergent Thinker website Apparently I'm an emergent thinker. It sounds good, but I'm not sure what it means, so I will reserve judgement until someone explains it to me. by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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APRIL 11, 2018

You are also free from copyright, when it clearly states that the fixation is in the public domain or is licensed by Creative Commons with attribution. Copyright by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Alpha Stock Images. These can consist of Drawings (Vectors), Pictures (Raster), Sounds, Videos and Fonts.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 4, 2019

Image from Pixabay In preparation for my EDEN19 keynote later this month in Bruges, I have been making notes on connected learning. This can be shared in numerous formats, including text, images, sound and video, all of which are easily disseminated to potentially huge audiences through social media. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MAY 7, 2020

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. and if you can get a picture and sound that's usable, and there's no pixellation or latency.

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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. Sometimes it can mask audio narration that sounds a bit hollow. Vimeo : music library of Creative Common music. DL Sounds : free, as in free. Click on the song title to see licensing.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

It sounded like a hackneyed line from an old 1970s TV sitcom script. It sounded like a hackneyed line from an old 1970s TV sitcom script. Sponge's AR tool works within the user's smartphone, providing additional information as overlays to the live image appearing on screen through the smartphone camera. Unported License.

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Adobe Captivate

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Music can be a challenge but there are many resources that offer free music under a creative commons license. If this sounds like a good value, use my referral link: [link] so they know I sent you to their site. With Graphicstock I don’t need to worry about all the attribution rules that creative commons requires.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Photos, sound files and video clips are always great ways to liven up great presentations. Trainees at a call center must provide consistent answers to common questions — sound clips demonstrate the proper language. Adding Images. Browse for the image you want, and then select it. First, a Few Ground Rules.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 30, 2016

The Web evolved to embrace digital repositories of text, images and sound that could be discussed, added to, edited, shared and repurposed. Unported License. In effect, Web 2.0 became the digital totem around which humanity gathered to share their stories. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 26, 2019

Image from Wikimedia Commons Have you heard of Pandora's box? Anyway, it wasn't a box, it was a jar, but I'll use 'box' here because it sounds more familiar. Unported License. Sure you have. And that's a moot point, because Pandora was a myth. And if she had been male, she would have been a mythter (Enough!

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Learning with e's

MAY 6, 2019

Image from Pexels Being interviewed by Rick Zanotti last week got me thinking about music and learning. When everyone plays at the same time, the usual result is cacophony - which is quite literally defined as a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds. Unported License. Giving others space within a musical performance is vital.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 3, 2014

They were given two days to complete the project, and the first day involved a 6 hour history walk around the city, where they were given opportunities to capture still and moving images and do some research. Unported License. Plymouth has a rich heritage and is steeped in history. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Most of my recent slide presentations are freely available on this Slideshare site , and I publish them under a Creative Commons license that allows others to download and use them either as complete slideshows, or to select individual slides that can be inserted into their own slideshows. Unported License.

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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. This is the idea behind the Immersive Vision Theatre at Plymouth University , a converted planetarium that employs fish-eye lens projection systems to render 3 D moving images on a concave surface.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Image from Wikimedia Commons Oskar Schindler was an industrialist, playboy and philanthropist during the Nazi occupation of Europe. Maslow's awkward hierarchy Schindler's shopping list by Steve Wheeler was written in London, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

JUNE 22, 2016

Garage Band for example, enables the production and reproduction of just about any musical instrument sound, and allows the user to mix these into a musical sequence. Photoshop is software that allows users to do the same thing with images. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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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. Unported License. Audio visual conveyed rich information and represented knowledge in a manner that engaged the senses.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 25, 2018

Image from Wikimedia Commons Last week I posted a Twitter poll with the question: Which myth is the most damaging for learning? Categorising students as being predominantly 'audio' or as 'visual' learners, or deciding they are reflectors rather than activists, sounds intuitive and convenient. Unported License.

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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

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. Unported License. Audio visual conveyed rich information and represented knowledge in a manner that engaged the senses.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 2, 2011

Sound familiar? Image source Excuses, excuses. by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. The same excuses and opposition is still being trotted out today by those who are opposed to the use of mobile phones in classrooms. No excuses.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 14, 2017

Image from Carpe Diem I was sent a pre-publication copy of Cathy Davidson's new book The New Education recently, to review. The New Education #bookreview by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Learning with e's

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. The media went into overdrive, and of course, searched around for images they could freely use to illustrate their stories.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

These images show what we got up to with our first year education students on their first full afternoon of specialist study in computing and ICT. This is not as easy as it sounds. Unported License. There are a myriad of problems to solve. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

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. Unported License. Dry wipe whiteboards weren't much in evidence.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 7, 2014

They were very proud of the work they had done around the analysis of audio waveforms, frequencies and sound synthesis to create their own songs. Image by Mike Licht Breaking down the silos by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Image from Pixabay I was intrigued to read a blog post by Tim Holt that was written in response to my own recent post on teachers and technology. The pseudo-utopian world Tim Holt espouses sounds like an absolute nightmare. Unported License. We are highly social, and we all need human interaction. All lies and jests.

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Learning with e's

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. A better, more intuitive application of AR is the use of large screens (see the image above, taken in a Westfield shopping centre, London). Unported License.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 17, 2011

The Sounds of the Bazaar Internet radio guys were also present and I managed to squeeze in a live interview on Day 1 with Klaus Rummler on the 'future of learning', as we stood outside in the spring sunshine. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

MAY 8, 2012

The surround-sound and the fish-eye projectors together combine to create an exciting, fascinating and at times disorienting visual panorama which totally immerses you in the experience. The students love it, because they can then capture their images with a mobile phone for later use. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JULY 8, 2011

If this sounds familiar, it is exactly what happens informally day in, day out on Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites. Image source by Steve Paine Digital age learning by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 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 Unported License.

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