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Way past time to catch up on this work. So week 6 is looking at "Models for Teaching and Learning Multiliteracies"....more...
After a couple of weeks focused on assessment, not to mention two assignments which I'm far from happy with, it's time to return to some study. First, the ICTs for Learning Design course and this week the focus is on...more...
Via George Siemens I learn about my iPhone tracking where I've been, a nifty app that can visualise that data, some useful resources to implement this sort of visualisation, and some detail about the file format. The obligatory visualisations of my movements - significantly less a world traveler than George - follow (click on an images to see it larger)....more...
Ahh, the life of a student. No sooner is one assignment completed, is another one underway. In this case, one I've essentially ignored/forgotten about until a week out from being due....more...
What follows is a ~1600 word reflective blog post required for assessment purposes. I find myself less than pleased with this assignment. In part because I don't think 1600 words is enough to do justice to the problem. But also because of my own limitations in terms of knowledge of the context and content....more...
The assignment for ICTs for Learning Design that I am meant to be completing has a rubric with four criteria. The fourth criteria is...more...
Update/recommendation: The following may be helpful for some, but it has it's limitations. For example, in terms of coming up with L&T applications for Minecraft I was constrained by my limited knowledge of Minecraft, and even worse, a limited view of L&T. For a broader view I suggest reading about and engaging with Massively Minecraft. You have to be in it to learn it....more...
And so the final group of technologies to play with prior to the assignment. This is an open-ended group and includes: animations and simulations; Google earth; Google Maps; and Google docs. The "historical" recap of what I've done associated with these technologies is part of the assessment - showing that I've "played" with the technologies....more...
I've only listed to some of the audio of this presentation, and from that experience, watching the video is probably the advised approach. ...more...
Late last week I was thinking about how I could develop something approaching a WCYDWT lesson for mathematics. It is something I am going to have to do very soon now. As it happens, in looking for the WCYDWT link, I came across this Diigo group that I am going to have to return to....more...
Following on from the last post this one reports a bit more on activities associated with the Group 3 technologies, tools that "present learning or information". The point is mostly to document that I've done this stuff (for assessment purposes) and also to implement the necessary analysis of one of the tools....more...
So, in a few weeks time I'll be teaching mathematics to high school kids. Almost certainly grades 8 & 9 (find out next week). I've been doing a bit of reading and have joined various online groups. Last week I purchased a couple of textbooks used in local schools to refresh my knowledge and see what's being covered....more...
So, these are tools to "present learning or information". The chosen representatives are Powerpoint, Prezi and Glogster. Am thinking I'm might try a quick search for some alternatives, time permitting....more...
I'm in the midst of a course in which the second assignment is asking us to analyse four groups of e-learning technologies and how they apply to our future learning and teaching activities. Today I've finished some readings and some activities around the group 2 technologies: online images, audio and video....more...
Following on from the last post, this one reports on the experimentation with a collection of technologies that fall under the category of Group 2. We're meant to play with these technologies and then select one to analyse in a little more detail. This builds on the analysis of group 1 technologies....more...
Another week, another group of technologies for the ICTs for learning design course. Group 2 is focused on images, video and audio tools. This post focuses on the readings, the next on the activities....more...
The purpose of this post is to make formal what many people have already assumed. Work on BIM and BIM for Moodle 2.0 is not really happening at the moment. I've already missed the "early 2011" release of BIM for Moodle 2 I was aiming for and have been incredibly slack in solving an issue with BIM for Moodle 1.9 and Yahoo Pipes....more...
As part of assignment 2 for ICTs for Learning Design we're meant to examine/play with examples of four different groups of technologies. Choose one each week to analyse in a little more detail and use that as the basis for the assignment. This post is my reflection on group 1. A group that contains blogs, wikis and websites....more...
Another task related to the ICTs for Learning Design assignment is in examining podcasts. Rather than access existing podcasts, I'm going to reuse an idea first generated for a "Web 2.0 course site" and which I've reused a couple of times in MOOCs. The use of social-bookmarking and a feed aggregator to enable the creation of a collaborative podcast....more...
The ICTs for Learning Design course I'm taking has at least four weeks structured around looking at 4 different groups of technologies where each group is made up of multiple examples. For example, the first group is "Online spaces" and includes blogs, wikis and "websites" (e.g. Weebly). We are meant to explore and experiment with these technologies and then select one to analyse. The analysis is intended to...more...
The ICTs for Learning Design course requires each student to create a blog. The blog is then a key part of the assessment, it's actually how we're meant to submit assignments. The public nature of the blogs has caused some concern, but we are now being encouraged to read and comment on our peer's blogs....more...
For a variety of reasons, mostly due to some current study, I've retrieved from the rubbish tip of history a course website I helped design and teach back in 1999. What follows here are some reflections on what has and hasn't changed since 1999. At the end there is a bit of speculation that the current context within universities would make it harder to generate this type of course site....more...