tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61543157907423630322024-03-04T21:24:56.217-08:00m-learning, Lilian's blogxlearn - Lilian's blog, m-learning, e-learning, gadgets, Web 2.0 and beyond. lilianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05846931496579680300noreply@blogger.comBlogger108125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154315790742363032.post-9526380167203745762019-04-18T01:30:00.006-07:002019-04-18T01:30:59.871-07:00Random discussion board thoughts
It would be nice to breathe fresh life into social construction tools like the Discussion Board. Currently managing posts, reviewing and directing students to use a discussion board is time consuming and not very popular. The discussion board could be so much more effective if it could allow you to:
set up a discussion board activity where each user has to make a post and there is a tracking lilianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05846931496579680300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154315790742363032.post-1043234322782048802019-02-28T06:38:00.004-08:002022-09-28T09:41:54.198-07:00Food analogies and the 4Ps
Just finished running another action-packed Future Teacher webinar with Ron and Alistair on designing technology-enhanced programmes. I think the food analogy was used to great effect on this theme. If someone said they wanted you to prepare meals, you would instantly ask certain questions (apart from the why!!): When, how often, for how many, buffet or sit down 3-course meal, what cuisine, lilianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05846931496579680300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154315790742363032.post-75996367882211175572017-06-24T09:30:00.000-07:002017-06-24T09:41:09.518-07:00Continuing professional development habit - Blogging as portfolio
It's really hard to form the habit of continual development without a formal qualification to drive you. I've been thinking this through in the context of the Erasmus Future Teacher 3.0 project that I'm currently working on as part of Learning Apps (see About FT 3.0 tab)
The plan is to create a Digital Thermometer to help people measure where they are on their digital teaching journey. Then lilianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05846931496579680300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154315790742363032.post-27137216749297529722017-03-19T23:54:00.000-07:002017-03-20T00:18:09.653-07:00Rethinking pedagogies, reusing pedagogiesWhen it comes to delivering training, my preference to use a social constructivist approach is based on my belief that everyone has something to contribute and that I am not necessarily the expert, or the only expert about a topic. I like to harness the ‘resources’ of other people’s expertise in my teaching. I feel that people generally gain more satisfaction and active learning from lilianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05846931496579680300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154315790742363032.post-11411893988243135982016-10-08T05:52:00.001-07:002017-06-24T09:31:58.627-07:00Is this a load of bollards?I'm getting into my reading on Learning Organisations and I come across different models, theories, factors, principles etc etc. The short, sharp punchy '5 principles' approach or '3 criterion' explanations appeal to me - then I get to a '10 principles for explaining' such and such and my mind throws a cynical - really?
I can almost go with broad brush strokes to categorise behaviours but when lilianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05846931496579680300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154315790742363032.post-28664254994774537082016-10-07T03:08:00.001-07:002016-10-07T03:09:17.810-07:00A little learning could go a long way...Reading Carol Levitt's 2011 paper on organisational learning and finding that it is triggering a whole new way of thinking about how one of my clients is approaching 'training'. I suggested to the client that we should write a strategy to guide our approach in the next 2-5 years; without a learning strategy, we are simply going by the 'topics' that need to be delivered. Having a strategy and lilianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05846931496579680300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154315790742363032.post-27937050610919326802016-06-08T04:10:00.007-07:002016-06-08T04:13:56.621-07:00Is Viv the next big thing to revolutionise how we use the Internet?"In A World Dominated By Apple and Google, This Company Wants to Forge A Third Way" by @johnbattelle on @LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/world-dominated-apple-google-company-wants-forge-third-john-battelle
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I like to think of new technologies as a 'spectrum of stuff' and just when you think things have gotten granular lilianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05846931496579680300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154315790742363032.post-72774765202356361662016-05-01T04:16:00.004-07:002016-05-01T05:34:07.247-07:00Going to the Polls 2016
Going to the Polls 2016 (#gttp16) was organised by Paul Foxall, one of Birmingham University’s Digital and Technology Skills Advisors and aimed to showcase "how the use of interactive technology can enhance the student’s learning experience in the classroom". The event was held at the University of Birmingham on April 20th, 2016 and sponsored by TurningPoint, which the University used, as well lilianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05846931496579680300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154315790742363032.post-63138350834312288182016-01-04T13:55:00.000-08:002016-01-09T10:27:21.402-08:00Reflection on bloggingI've tinkered with blogs since 2000 and lost a few along the way. Posterous was a firm favourite for a few years until it disappeared. It was the most intuitive to use. Blogger and WordPress are rather difficult to navigate if you're a novice but I persisted with WordPress for a bit on various projects: https://cwaipads.wordpress.com
https://blhairtraining.wordpress.com
https://lilianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05846931496579680300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154315790742363032.post-46602429292782285572016-01-02T10:15:00.001-08:002016-01-10T03:19:45.139-08:00Mini-projectsMy favourite mini-projects can be found here:
Flipped Classroom with Textwall
The future of VLEslilianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05846931496579680300noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154315790742363032.post-54829396815263869282015-12-29T02:26:00.002-08:002016-01-04T13:56:17.067-08:00Being succinct, being focusedThis is a short Christmas post to record the fact that I have probably created my project and written my MSc TEL design project rationale 10 times over simply because I cannot decide on the angle I'm taking. How do other people do it? Choose one focus area and zoom in on it? Especially if you only have 1000 words! I'm as bad at this as I am at shopping - I can never decide if I have too much lilianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05846931496579680300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154315790742363032.post-51058790628558647082015-12-12T07:56:00.003-08:002015-12-12T07:57:56.354-08:00'Podcast' about using textwall in a flipped classroom contextHere's a recording of a conversation a fellow Masters student, Ono, and I had this week about using textwall in a flipped classroom context. I've never put the two things together before, so thank you, Ono, for a fabulous idea!
Select this link to listen to the recording (20 min)lilianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05846931496579680300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154315790742363032.post-57326744248746681782015-10-09T12:22:00.000-07:002015-10-09T12:22:14.463-07:00Disposable email addresses
I've always liked the fact that Yahoo mail provides me with a way to set up disposable email addresses and now I've learned a way to do this in Gmail!
What is a disposable email address?
Have you ever been in a position where you have to enter an email address (for a competition or some other promotion) but you dread the unwanted marketing that is going to flood your email inbox? lilianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05846931496579680300noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154315790742363032.post-77298419253315523322015-10-02T04:22:00.000-07:002015-10-02T04:23:08.075-07:00Design of multimedia learning v pedagogic approaches to elearningIn my current work, I create e-learning modules for learners who access these through a Learning Management System (LMS). I'm keen to develop some guiding principles for my team based on theory and research by Richard E Mayers, Ruth Clark and John Sweller. In addition, I'm influenced by industry leaders in this field like Cathy Moore and Anna Sabramowicz.
However, I'm also looking forward tolilianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05846931496579680300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154315790742363032.post-62816542901732378942015-09-26T07:36:00.001-07:002015-10-02T04:23:20.462-07:00MSc TEL Day 1Started on the MSc TEL, looking forward to engaging with theory and getting some underpinning support for things I know work! Pop over to the MSc TEL tab for my assignment related work as they develop.
Coursemates:
It's been a while since I've posted actively on the blog. I've not been under a rock; I've had to sell myself to the private sector. ;-) Over the last two years, I've developed lilianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05846931496579680300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154315790742363032.post-61783741731634587192014-12-03T12:14:00.003-08:002022-09-28T09:42:21.674-07:00Sadness at losing JISC TechDis(I've had a busy 2 years as an e-learning manager but I'm looking forward to picking up the thread again. )
First off, sadness at losing JISC TechDis as a distinct service for Further and Higher Education. At the moment, JISC feels a little faceless to me, and the JISC TechDis team were a distinct team of people who were boldly making a definite positive impact on people's lives. I will miss thelilianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05846931496579680300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154315790742363032.post-19382868403559925842013-02-02T07:07:00.000-08:002013-02-02T08:39:24.396-08:00Curation tools - Pinterest
There are many curation tools to choose from as can be seen from the list tweeted by @web20classroom http://bit.ly/SyViES. I have adopted and dropped a few over the years. I started with Delicious, moved to Diigo, tried Scoop.it for a bit and have most recently adopted Pinterest.
Why swap and change so much? Well, each new tool promised new functionality - but it has also been an interestinglilianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05846931496579680300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154315790742363032.post-61019185699668420072013-01-28T08:51:00.000-08:002013-01-28T08:51:00.431-08:00Epic's images tip sheet
In Epic's January 2013 newsletter, I came across their tip sheet on images and their usefulness in e-learning: http://epiclearninggroup.com/uk/files/2013/01/Images_in_learning.pdf
It ties in with my previous post on Daniel Willingham's question about the usefulness of the concept of learning styles. Epic's tips include the idea that an illustration can really help to convey some information lilianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05846931496579680300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154315790742363032.post-49681924515125492272013-01-24T04:39:00.001-08:002013-01-31T03:29:01.107-08:00Making meaning - learning styles don't exist
I've just been introduced to the work of Daniel Willingham, by my friend Keith Tellum, who suggests that there is no such thing as learning styles. I've seen this debate around but I've never spent time looking into it until now - this Youtube video by Daniel sums up his reasons why we have been so convinced about the learning styles theory.
So, he ends by saying that good teaching is just lilianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05846931496579680300noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154315790742363032.post-29249751832920009532013-01-17T02:39:00.000-08:002013-01-31T03:29:16.099-08:00Checking and assessing learning with rubricsWhen you create assessment or learning rubrics, you make it clear in your mind what acceptable work or excellent work looks like. This information is also helpful to your learners as they can see what they need to do to make the push for excellence. It can also be used for self-assessment or peer assessment.
A good starting point for creating your own rubrics is The University of Wisconsin's lilianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05846931496579680300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154315790742363032.post-33716826453337780892013-01-10T03:06:00.003-08:002013-01-22T06:16:07.163-08:00Evernote to support dyslexic learnerCat Molyneaux of Guildford College supports a severely dyslexic
learner on a botanical course. The learner requires audio resources and
after our project launch on Nov 8, she thought about getting text
converted to audio for the learner, using Dspeech, Balabolka or similar.
After further discussion, other requirements came up - the learner
needed to be able to revise plant identification and lilianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05846931496579680300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154315790742363032.post-12679754890453226432012-12-05T00:24:00.000-08:002013-01-31T03:29:40.909-08:00Back to basics with marking rubricsI had the opportunity to work with the Sparsholt College ILT team on Nov 29 on behalf of the JISC RSC SE. They are also involved in the #jtdambassadors project, a joint project between the JISC RSC SE and JISC TechDis.
For the #jtdambassadors project, they have started taking videos of the students in the kitchens as evidence, and Mary's going to look at the easi-speak microphones for the lilianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05846931496579680300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154315790742363032.post-12387807380906218522012-12-03T06:24:00.000-08:002013-01-31T03:30:15.947-08:00Rediscovering old friends and learning some new thingsI visited some of my Jisc Techdis Ambassadors project colleges last week.
I worked with Epping Forest College as their Molenet mentor and was pleased to work with Vikki Liogier (@vikkiliogier) and Katheryn Lowe again. Since we last worked together, the college has continued to make great progress on developing their staff, with 16 e-pilot projects running in the college this year. The staff lilianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05846931496579680300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154315790742363032.post-57232508553860526582012-09-20T02:41:00.002-07:002012-12-03T06:25:21.508-08:00textivate.com@NikPeachey is a great guy to follow on Twitter and his Daily English Activities blog is full of great ideas and technologies to try. I came across Textivate.com through browsing his blog.
Here's a video I made on using Textivate:
lilianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05846931496579680300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154315790742363032.post-65735002512742299772012-08-08T03:00:00.000-07:002012-09-24T05:23:18.542-07:00rss feedsI had a conversation with Lisa Featherstone of JISC TechDis recently about RSS feeds and podcasts and the fact that although those of us who know about them and use them think the technology is the bees' knees, chances are your neighbour on the street doesn't understand it. They don't know how it can enrich their lives. How did we get to the point where the RSS logo is everywhere, but so lilianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05846931496579680300noreply@blogger.com0