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Developments in e-learning. Jim Judges [email protected]. email SMS. Blogging Podcasting Wikis. e-learning. e-learning can provide : opportunities for student-centred and collaborative working change from power over learners to “power of the learners”. learning. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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e-learning can provide:
• opportunities for student-centred and collaborative working
• change from power over learners to “power of the learners”
e-learning
learning
Blog is an abbreviation of “weblog”
A weblog is a diary or journal which is published on the Internet and is updated periodically.
Some schools and colleges are setting up departmental blogs as a means of communicating with students, keeping them informed and reminding them of forthcoming events, exam timetables, deadlines and similar. For example, athttp://www.chemistry.blog-city.com/
This is a blog written by an IT tutor who uses it to review and share free IT resources for adult education.http://aceuk.blogspot.com/
One Day in Historyhttp://www.historymatters.org.uk/output/Page99.asp
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www.bloglines.com
www.blogger.com
Getting started with Blogs…
…contact Anna for help
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Getting started with Blogs…
Activity:
• (1) Visit www.bloglines.com - sign up for an account - subscribe to some blogs of interest (try using “quick pick subscriptions”)
• (2) Visit www.blogger.com - Scroll to the bottom and look at Blogs of note & Random Blogs - Consider creating a blog
What is a 'podcast'?
(1) According to Creative Labs, it stands for "Personal On Demand broadCAST"
(2) Ben Hammersley first used the phrase in the Guardian on February 12, 2004, as a synonym for "audioblogging“ as a contraction of "broadcasting" and "iPod" (as a byword for MP3 players).
Podcasting has the potential to offer:
• Learning on demand, at anytime and anywhere (including on the bus or train)
• Engagement through the use of emerging technology
Podcasting
Other Audio Content
Spoken Wikipedia Articles
Educational Podcasts
Example Activity – Using Audio
Helen Keller
(1) How old was Helen Keller when she died?
(2) What is the likely cause of her deafness and blindness?
PodcastingActivity
Audacity Demo…
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder
You can use Audacity to:
• Record live audio.
• Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
• Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and WAV sound files.
• Cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds together.
• Change the speed or pitch of a recording.
..and more
Wikis“Wiki“ is a Hawaiian-language word for fast.
The word is sometimes interpreted as the backronym for "what I know is", which describes the knowledge
contribution, storage and exchange function
Ideas for Using Wikis to Support Learning
• A teacher could post some key revision words for students to expand into
definitions / pages.
• Students could work in groups on collaborative documents such as a group report
• Course notes could be refined over the duration of the course by both students and teachers
• Students could research new topics and contribute their findings
• Teacher can start a writing prompt and have students add parts to create a comprehensive class writing activity.
• A teacher could start a story and students could create links off it which would allow the story to follow different, interactive paths.
• A wiki could be a great tool for collaboratively constructing answers to exam questions
Wikis
Activity
(1) Edit one of the Wikis
http://animalsalphabet.pbwiki.com/
Stretch Activities - If time allows:
(2) Look at the page on podcasts (& follow links and contribute)
(3) Visit wikipedia and search “spoken articles”
(4) Set up your own Wiki at www.pbwiki.com
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