Category: e-learning
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Private Social Network Tool
Here is a neat app that can be used for training and educational purposes a well as for teams, project teams and any other situation where you want to use all of the functionality of a social network without the issues of it beginning totally social. I have been playing with this with some mates…
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Looking Through the Google Glass
You might have already seen the video below. It has millions of views already. I wrote a post about Google glasses about a year ago. It looks very interesting and there are many positive and negative impacts for education. Can’t see the video – click here. In case you don’t know much about the glasses…
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E – Tool of the Week
Here is an interesting little teaching tool. Basically Teachem is a way of putting YouTube videos into a class format that allows you to control one access point to the videos and also allows you to add notes to your program. It is pretty simple but it has some definite advantages if you want to…
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Learning Creative Learning
You will have to be quick and decisive but there is a course being offered through MIT on learning creative learning. Enrollments close on the 8th of Feb but they are a day behind us in Australia so my Australian readers have a day or so to consider their options. This is their blurb about…
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My First Infographic
This is the followup post from the infographic post yesterday. I didn’t have much time as I spent hours on my relational algebra test with the MOOC that I am enrolled with, but here is my first infographic experiment as promised in yesterdays post. How did you go? I used easel.ly which was ok and…
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Sunday Zephyr – Infographics
Hopefully you know what an infographics is. If not here is a good definition: Information graphics or infographics are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge intended to present complex information quickly and clearly. (Wikipedia). The article below provides links to 10 tools that you can use to build a infographic. As a little exercise for Sunday, create one and if you…
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MOOC’s and the Future
Not sure what a MOOC is check this video out first before looking at the article below. Can’t see the video – click here. Here is a great article from Harvard Business Review on MOOC’s. It is basically 8 people commenting on various aspects rather than on one person’s opinion. I am currently enrolled in…
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E Learning Platform
One of the tricky aspects of getting into elearning as an organisation or an individual is where to host your site. This is often very complex and expensive. The cheap options, and there are quite a few, are ok but they also have some disadvanatges. Two common issues are password access to the site and…
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Making Science Interesting
Good teaching and training is about making your content interesting by delivering it in a multitude of interesting ways. Maybe, toady you are going to have a beer, possibly a Guinness (a favourite beer of mine). Could a glass of Guinness be used to teach science. The video below proves it can. Can you make…
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Conferences
What conferences are you going to attend this year? Maybe none as there are some many good things happening on line that you don’t need to step out of the house. Personally I am attending regular webcasts and at present a number of MOOC’s which I am finding challenging but fun. This year’s EdTech conference…