eLearning News

This blog has moved.

2007-01-10T12:55:00.000+11:00

eLearning News has merged with the other CIT Flexible Learning Solutions edublog OTN@CIT. Check it out at http://onlineteachernetwork.edublogs.org/ for a wealth of interesting, regularly updated eLearning news, ideas and information. thanks to everyone who has been reading this up to now. cheers Col

Showing students that writing for a blog is different.

2006-10-11T08:24:00.000+10:00

“The speed of reading in the age of the digital has changed, and we need to help students navigate this…Reading on the internet requires two separate skills: one, the quick analysis to find what is worth reading, and the second, a switch to slow analysis to carefully consider what has been found. What RSS does is allow students to make this distinction, to receive content as “bits” easy to scan,

Searching Google Video for educational content.

2006-10-11T08:15:00.000+10:00

Cool Cat Teacher Blog: How to search Google Educational Videos It's a fairly simple couple of steps but considering how much video content is available these days, this is a very valuable tip for finding the educational stuff. 1 - Go to Google Video - http://video.google.com 2- In the search box, type: genre:educational 3 - Follow it with anything you want to find video for. eg. I typed

Make barcodes that can be read by a mobile phone camera and provide web links.

2006-09-13T10:45:00.000+10:00

smartpox » welcome This is kind of tricky to explain but in essence, there's a system out there now (well, ok, it's been available in Japan for about 10 years but that's neither here nor there) which allows you to generate an image like the one above. This image, known as a QR code, represents information such as a web-link, plain text or even a phone number and what you do is put

13 ways to promote your podcast

2006-09-01T08:42:00.000+10:00

Around the Corner - MGuhlin.net - Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway. - Mignon McLaughlin Don't worry about the title of this page, this provides you with a list of 13 sites that you can use to promote your podcast for free - well worth a look. Blogged with Flock

Even more video toys (do you think I'm biased :)

2006-08-21T19:52:00.000+10:00

Teach and Learn Online: Blip.TV rocks!! Thanks to Leigh Blackall for this one - he certainly seems excited about it. These things seem to be getting smarter and smarter. (from Leigh's blog - http://teachandlearnonline.blogspot.com) Not only is it fast to upload!! Boy its fast!But it gives you back an mov to save back down to your computerIt cross posts your video to your

Voice discussion boards and voice chat

2006-08-21T10:17:00.000+10:00

The Gong Project - The Web Voice Communication Tool This looks like a very interesting tool that FLS is currently investigating for CIT - it allows for both live voice chat as well as voice discussion boards - certainly something that might help draw in to class discussion students who feel less confident in their written communications. If you are at CIT, contact the FLS team for more

Making movies with your mobile

2006-08-21T10:14:00.000+10:00

Mobile FilmMakers 2006 - MobiFilm Academy Keeping with the video theme today, this is a pretty detailed resource for people looking to make use of the video camera functionality of their mobile phones - it appears to have some tie-in to Nokia but the general principles will still apply and there are lots of handy tips. You might also like to think about what your students

Instructional video has a new home - Videojug

2006-08-21T09:50:00.000+10:00

The thinking person's YouTube | News.blog | CNET News.com In looking at the use of video - particular in a VET/VTE context, my feeling is that one of the most beneficial applications is in the realm of the instructional video. Next to having someone there in person to show you how to fit that washer or swing that golf club (ok, probably less of an education application but I found it pretty

Blogging in the classroom

2006-08-15T09:21:00.000+10:00

Weblogs in the Classroom Interested in practical, classroom uses of blogs? - well go no further :) Blogged with Flock

Gizmo - like Skype but cheaper (is freeer a word?)

2006-07-26T10:42:00.000+10:00

Education/Technology - Tim Lauer Nice summation here of the benefits of Gizmo, an internet telephony service similar to Skype but possibly even cheaper. Gizmo is currently running a scheme where you can make free calls to the landlines of other Gizmo users in 60 countries around the world. Blogged with Flock

Using it in the classroom

2006-07-26T09:07:00.000+10:00

This is a quote from George Siemen's blog and sums up very well some issues I've been having with the tool-centred approach of a lot of eLearning 2.0 training. "A new survey of teachers and their use of technology suggests there is a clear correlation between hours spent in professional development, classroom integration of technology, and improved student performance. " I don't imagine this is

Want to brush up on Web Design?

2006-07-21T09:14:00.000+10:00

Web Design - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks This is a pretty nifty use of a wiki to run a web-design course, setup by Michael Nelson of the Blue Mountains campus of TAFE NSW. Blogged with Flock

Great resource of "Serious" Games

2006-07-20T10:11:00.000+10:00

Social Impact Games :: Entertaining Games with Non-Entertainment Goals The Serious Game movement is all about using the particular strengths of video and computer games - engagement and entertainment - to convey useful information about the world. It includes things like language learning, decision based simulation and collaborative learning, properties of physics and much much more. Games

It's educational - really :)

2006-07-19T10:10:00.000+10:00

Top 20 Educational Locations in Second Life - SimTeach Have you taken a look at Second Life yet? It's what they call a Massive Multiplayer Online Game - essentially a vast, earth sized virtual world where you can wonder around and do pretty well anything that it is possible to do in reality. Educators are starting to look at this with interest - and here are some of the leading locations

Practical uses of Wikis

2006-07-19T09:57:00.000+10:00

Wikis offer a simple shared space to collaborate on things that really matter. This does not translate into the “build it and they will come” thinking. Rather, as described in this article, wikis will work only if all of the following are present: * The right culture. The talking, negotiating type. * A practical, compelling reason to collaborate, to share (it helps if they are a number

Everything you ever wanted to know about screencasting but were afraid to ask.

2006-07-19T08:55:00.000+10:00

wwwtools for teachers This is a pretty extensive resource on the wwwtools for education website all about screencasting. According to Wikipedia, a Screencast is a digital recording of computer screen output, often containing audio narration - essentially the sort of thing you would use software such as Camtasia for and is quite handy in showing learners the steps involved in doing something

July 14: Social Web Tags using del.icio.us

2006-07-13T18:46:00.000+10:00

Any Maths teachers out there?

2006-07-10T08:59:00.000+10:00

Weblogg-ed » Mathcasts.org Will Richardson has found a wiki that showcases student created screencasts about maths related topics. I really like how he highlights the benefits of this kind of activity. The thing I like the most here is the opportunity to engage our students by not only asking them to show what they know by testing it but by teaching it. I really believe that is a

Thinking about tagging and users defining data

2006-07-06T10:57:00.000+10:00

http://blog.namics.com/archives/2005/Folksonomies_Cooperative_Classification.pdf This is a pretty interesting (and not toooo lengthy) paper looking into the use of tagging in websites such as del.icio.us (bookmark/favourite sharing) and flickr (photo sharing) Blogged with Flock

Interesting use of Flickr - for short stories.

2006-07-06T09:58:00.000+10:00

In investigating the use of tagging I’ve come across an interesting movement using Flickr – it’s people writing short stories attached to Flickr images. Some are one liners, others stretch down a page. All grouped together using the tag Flicktion. This is one I particularly enjoyed. (click image)

OMG!!! Teacher gets class to create MySpace type page for characters from Richard III

2006-07-04T09:35:00.000+10:00

» Blog Archive » Medieval Space Pages This is a really nifty idea - the title pretty well says it all Blogged with Flock

Great Podcast on the importance of creativity in education

2006-07-04T09:20:00.000+10:00

TEDTalks (audio, video) I've just been listening to the Sir Ken Robinson speech about the importance of emphasising creativity in education from this year's TED talks and highly recommend checking it out. The audio file is about 7mb and comes in at about 17 minutes. In addition to being a very funny speaker, he makes some very interesting points about current educational directions and the

Good Age article about blogging in education

2006-07-03T09:02:00.000+10:00

Adventures in blog land - Education News - theage.com.au While this does perhaps go over some familiar ground, there's a fairly broad investigation here into the way different academics have been using blogs of late and how it is reshaping knowledge sharing everywhere. Blogged with Flock

How to assess Blog posts

2006-07-01T11:56:00.000+10:00

Weblogg-ed » Assessing Blog Posts This is an interesting blog entry from George Siemens (in response to David Warlick's initial thoughts) on ideas for assessing blog content. 1. What did you read in order to write this blog entry? Yee Haw! Blogging starts with reading, and I read David’s post, which leads me to blogging. (I read some other stuff, too. See below.) And I think an even more