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(e)Learning & (e)Teaching

Merry Christmas

16 December 2009

A friend in the UK sent me this today. I immediately had to find my partner and show it to her. Yes it captured my attention all right. And I went off to look at the web site mentioned at the end of the video. Now if more of our teaching could be like that. [...]

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100 Top Tools for Learning

18 November 2009

[ad] The 2009 list is out from Jane Hart at the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies. As always this makes a great read. Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009 View more documents from Jane Hart. As Derek Wenmoth has commented, the lack of the main proprietary LMSs in the list is notable. The top [...]

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Teaching with Twitter

6 November 2009

[ad] These are the slides from a workshop I did at Auckland University recently. Teaching With Twitter View more presentations from Carol Cooper-Taylor. It has also been translated into Italian by Caterina Policaro. Grazie.

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How To Teach with … Twitter

4 October 2009

[ad] This page is part of the “How to teach with …” series, and may get updated from time to time. I’ll tweet when it has been updated. As a teacher what do you need to know about Twitter, how do you use it, why is its useful for learning and teaching, When and where [...]

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12 Key Messages for Education in a Social Media Age

11 September 2009

[ad] In case you’ve missed it there is a new report out “Engaging The New Influencers” from Edelman. null In June 2009, Edelman convened 100+ professors of communication, journalism, business and pubic relations to discuss how companies and organisations effectively engage with their stake holders through social media. Here are some of the bits that [...]

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Come on Google New Zealand exists

11 September 2009

Interesting post on the Google Blog recently: “Five million students going back to school are “going Google”. It relates of course to the number of schools using Google apps education edition. I love Google apps and use them to share material with all sorts of people. But this post got me uptight by its northern-hemisphere-centricness.  [...]

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Computerliteracy skills of tomorrow’s adults

3 September 2009

I spent the afternoon at Pukehou School again today. I had the pleasure of working with AJ’s class, where we installed Picasa on all the class laptops. I demonstrated how it worked and the class had a great time experimenting with all the options. A number of things struck me about the afternoon: although some [...]

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Blackboard still needs fixing

20 July 2009

It’s been some while since I administered a Blackboard system, 2002 to be exact, but if this post from Ben Eison is anything to go by things have not changed a deal in the last seven years. One of the things that frustrated me was Blackboard’s poor support. It wasn’t that the support staff were [...]

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Research shows Online Learning Better than Face-to-face

10 July 2009

Derek Wenmoth, in a post on the DEANZ blog, led me to this report from the US Department of Education. A U.S. Department of Education analysis of  research studies undertaken between 1996 and 2008 concludes that: Blended Learning is the most effective mode of education; Online Learning is more effective than face-to-face; Face-to-face learning alone [...]

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eLearning in economic turn downs

22 May 2009

By comparison with other times I’ve travelled through Singapore, the airport was empty this week. And the Auckland to Singapore flight was only about a third full. If people aren’t travelling in general due to the economic turn down and the latest flu threat, then students probably aren’t keen for international study either. In New [...]

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