Learning with e's

AUGUST 10, 2012

There has been some debate over whether or not people should combine their personal and business social media identities. Our immersion in media, he argues, provides us with a myriad of alternative role models we can adopt or adapt. Also, do we really find ourselves forced into performing multiple identities against our will?

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Learning with e's

JULY 8, 2013

Shirky shows how, similar to hive and swarm behaviour seen in animals, humans perform in networks and thrive within '' architectures of participation '' - so whilst bees make hives, humans create mobile telephone networks and the internet. The human social repertoire includes many such optimisations, which social tools can amplify'' (p 188).

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Learning with e's

JUNE 7, 2012

I recently blogged about the hidden audience effect , and cited Westfields Junior School's S'cool Internet Radio and David Mitchell's Quadblogging projects as examples of how students can become better engaged with learning when they perform their work for an audience. Prior to social media, how did they perform their skills for an audience?

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Learning with e's

MARCH 6, 2014

It is a kind of ''performance'' where we conceal unpleasant or undesirable aspects of our personae, whilst emphasising desirable and more attractive attributes to our ''audience'' of others. Never the less, they are performing a role, and are unwittingly engaging with an audience of others. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 6, 2012

I recently blogged about the hidden audience effect , and cited Westfields Junior School's S'cool Internet Radio and David Mitchell's Quadblogging projects as examples of how students can become better engaged with learning when they perform their work for an audience. Prior to social media, how did they perform their skills for an audience?

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 28, 2014

That is why it is so important for all of us to share what we know and share it freely on social media. Psychology also has many unanswered questions, such as how memory and recall works, or what functions certain areas of the human brain perform. There are many theories, but no definitive answers. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 26, 2015

At the drop of a hat, Shelly flew in from Germany where she was living at the time, and gave a rip-roaring performance that had everyone enthralled. She talked about how social media was making a huge impact on learning, and gave some great examples from her own professional practice. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MAY 31, 2019

Connected students can become the nodes of their own production, and are creating more content than ever before as they perform their learning for global audiences." Most of us are connected to each other through numerous social media platforms. Tapscott, D. London: Atlantic Books. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 7, 2019

The proliferation of technologies such as smartphones, social media and email means employees are increasingly exposed to task interruption. Standard deviation 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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CourseArc

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

As a result, many adult or senior students who are new to distance learning perform poorly in their courses, which reduces their motivation and their likelihood of completing future lessons. How to answer questions, play video, or perform any other required tasks. How to bookmark or annotate course content.

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Learning with e's

MAY 29, 2013

Whether or not we realise it, if we regularly use social media, we are members of the world wide digital tribe. Social media, the most social of all modern technologies, provided us with shared virtual spaces where we could ''meet''. Many of our digital tribal activities are performed on an informal basis.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Putting your ideas 'out there' as a public performance can be risky, but also very rewarding. It would be another small step, with very little extra effort, to share these resources through some social media tool. Again, in reality, many social media tools are quick and easy to use, and don't cost anything in terms of hard cash.

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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. Webinar tools include Elluminate (now known as Blackboard Collaborate), WebEx and Adobe Connect all of which have similar screen topographies and perform similar functions, but all have an associated cost.

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Learning with e's

JULY 23, 2010

Jay Cross (2007) called it 'rediscovering the natural pathways that inspire innovation and performance'. Creating, organising and sharing content within a defined community of interest is the way forward, and all of these are achievable through social media. Through the use of new and emerging technologies, this may all change.

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Learning with e's

MAY 13, 2014

She gives the example of learning the times table, which she argues will allow children to perform better in mathematical calculation than if they rely solely on technology. She dismisses Google as distracting and something that overloads working memory. She believes that teaching facts is the best way to establish this kind of skill.

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Learning with e's

JULY 20, 2011

is a very useful and attractive curation tool, enabling summaries and snapshots of related content from blogs, media sharing sites and other social media to be displayed, usually in two columns. The curator can add their own text, and embed the final product into their blog. This short video explains how it's done.

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Mindflash

MAY 7, 2012

Yes, there will always be the student who LOVES classes (and hint, hint — the student who LOVES all classes is typically a lower-performing employee). If you are using social media in your classes, you can eavesdrop even better on these conversations. 3) Undertrained vs. under-performing. Are they showing up?

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 3, 2013

This is due to the rapid proliferation of mobile technology, the disintermediation of traditional teacher and student roles, new trends such as MOOCs and the upsurge of user generated content on social media sites - all of which take learning away from previously familiar territory. As ever, your comments on this blog are welcome.

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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. Well, in the social media age, some might. There is always a silver lining though. This got me wondering: What about teachers? What do we leave behind that is memorable?

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Toward the end of the last century, the Web began to emerge as the convergent point for media. By the end of the first decade of this new century, participatory elements of the Web had consolidated their hold, and the social technologies - social media, social games, social networks - were gaining momentum.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Toward the end of the last century, the Web began to emerge as the convergent point for media. By the end of the first decade of this new century, participatory elements of the Web had consolidated their hold, and the social technologies - social media, social games, social networks - were gaining momentum.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 9, 2013

We produced and performed in musicals such as Godspell, Jesus Christ Superstar and Fiddler on the Roof in the school assembly hall. NATO = North Atlantic Treaty Organisation Image source Global learning collectives by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 12, 2014

The Web has changed the way I think, because I now expect to be able to do all this, and rely on my connections to perform my various professional roles. Photo by Luc Viatour on Wikimedia Commons The Web and us 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 28, 2010

That was just me sounding off) he was implying that not only is life transitory, but that each of us performs several roles throughout our lives. Such management of impression is common to all humans and is used to form connections and gain influence with others. not all the other stuff above. It also implies an audience of some kind.

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Mindflash

JUNE 13, 2012

What is Social Learning, Again? When they hear social learning , lots of people’s minds go straight to social media. But social learning is about much more than that — and much less. Image used under Creative Commons by Flickr user Tatiana12.

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Mindflash

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

The TAS Group acquired sales performance improvement provider InfoMentis. Some sales experts invested time and effort in social media—CustomerThink, Focus.com, Quora, LinkedIn Groups, and Twitter among others. Image used under Creative Commons by Flickr user wovox. The TAS Group released their Dealmaker Index.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 5, 2013

Blogs and wikis and other social media made an appearance, even though at the time they were still fairly nascent in compulsory education. Digital classrooms will become the place where learning is performed, celebrated and assessed - on large wall screens for all to enjoy. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MAY 30, 2019

The age of social technologies has radically transformed the way we live our lives, and that includes how we learn and teach. Connected students can become the nodes of their own production, and are creating more content than ever before as they perform their learning for global audiences. To be continued. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 30, 2011

Goffman saw social interaction as a drama performance, in which the actor's behaviour was framed by front stage and back stage roles, scripts, props and costumes. This has great import in our understanding of how we perform to audiences in social media (of which more later in this post). Unported License.

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Mindflash

MAY 15, 2012

If possible, allow for more interactivity so learners can try out the simulated software a bit to better understand how to perform a task. Peer or Social Feedback. In a training context, you can use collaborative and social media tools to give and receive peer feedback from colleagues. That’s real world feedback.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 29, 2012

It is not difficult to see that such sharing of knowledge can be easily achieved through social media and the use of personal digital technologies. 2006) Informal Learning: Rediscovering the natural pathways that inspire innovation and performance. 2008) Does a community of learners foster self-regulated learning? Delfino, M.,

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Learning with e's

JUNE 20, 2012

It continues to feature strongly in many corporate training/learning and development (L and D) design and delivery strategies because it focuses largely on competence and performance, traits most businesses value and require their employees to acquire and develop. This is questionable. Available at: [link] (Accessed 20 June, 2012).

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 5, 2011

We discussed a lot of issues related to distance education and technology mediated learning, including digital identity, social media and open scholarship. We analysed why I had posted yesterdays story about my Silver Wedding Anniversary , and what were the potential issues with such a public performance of a personal celebration.

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Mindflash

DECEMBER 16, 2011

In particular, there are increasing efforts by the LMS organizations to incorporate social media, to enable mobile access, and to enable institutions to make their content ‘open’ from within an LMS. It is likely that you will want to discuss performance(s) since the last meeting and it is essential that you highlight success.

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Learning with e's

MAY 28, 2012

This echoes Goffman's (1967) drama theory where individuals manage their impressions in a kind of performance in social contexts. Digital Futures: Innovations in Mobile Learning View more PowerPoint from Steve Wheeler There is no denying that at its heart much good learning has a social component. Goffman, E. Katz and M.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 12, 2012

In today's 10Q interview, Helen answers questions about her philosophy on learning, social media and her current projects in higher education, including alternate reality games: Who are you? heloukee (online), Senior Lecturer in Interactive Media and Social Technologies at the University of Salford. Unported License.

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Tony Karrer

JULY 20, 2009

Back in 2007, I pointed out various aspects of what I was seeing: strategy/strategic and performance are back as topics after dropping way down in 2006 surprisingly trainer is also back, you would think in the age of eLearning 2.0 In each case, these are crude in that they look only at what terms people are using in a given content set.

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