Posts Tagged ‘learning’

Reusable and Shareable Learning Objects

14 Mar 2012 at 08:56

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eLearning 2.0, instructional design, learning, social media, Technology, Web 2.0

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When we normally think of reusable learning objects we think of reusing them in other traditional learning settings, be it a chapter of a student manual or a video used in a different e-learning course (yes, e-learning is traditional, isn’t it?). When we think of modular, reusable learning objects we have to think of them [...]

I Pledge to Unattend Conferences from Now on

13 Mar 2012 at 15:15

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conferences

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I just came back from an amazing conference with amazing speakers, meet-ups, panels, free food and drinks, crazy people on the streets, advertisement anywhere (people’s bodies, trucks, pedicabs, projected on walls), forward thinking people who want to change the world, and those who want to make a big splashing releasing their new product, people with [...]

The end of assessment as we know it

02 Feb 2012 at 08:57

enzofsilva

instructional design

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“The concept of a job is going away” (Bersin, 2012) and so should the concept of assessment. At least assessment as we know it. Or the assessment forms that we dearly esteem. The truth is, most educators teach to assess. Yes, the end goal of the learning experience is to prepare learners to succeed in [...]

iBooks Author for Mac

19 Jan 2012 at 14:41

enzofsilva

Apps, Books, eLearning 2.0, learning, mobile, News, Technology

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Apple changes the publishing business once again. Sure there are other formats and authoring tools which are supported in iBooks, but this is different: an application that fits tightly in the Apple ecosystem, and as is normally the case with Apple products, simple. Apple unveiled this new tool in their Apple Education event in NYC. Here are [...]

5 Not so Crazy Predictions for Education in 2012

22 Dec 2011 at 21:38

enzofsilva

eLearning 2.0, learning, social media, Technology, Web 2.0

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It”s not not uncommon for geeks to do some wishful thinking a line any mortal hoping their tech dreams will come true in the new year to come. Id like to make some predictions for 2012 as well. Just a few humble predictions and observations. 1. Education everywhere And by everywhere I don’t mean the [...]

Second Screen Learning?

15 Dec 2011 at 09:05

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eLearning 2.0, learning, mobile, social media, Technology

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A phenomenon that can be classified as anything from multitasking to plain distraction is getting more popular as smartphones get smarter and tablet computers more ubiquitous: the use of the “second screen“. It is common now to have at least one person (if not everyone) in the living room watching as movie on TV while, [...]

Youtube EDU

12 Dec 2011 at 11:45

enzofsilva

eLearning 2.0, learning, social media, Web 2.0, WebApps

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There is a vast sea of information out there. In fact, it’s hard not to avoid drowning in it if you, as an educator or learner (which we all are) don’t put strategies in place to organize content by aggregating it using different bookmarking and sharing Web applications (which are a dime a dozen. Tools [...]

Free Language Learning Resources – KDE

18 Jun 2011 at 14:22

enzofsilva

free, languages, learning, open source

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For those looking for free language learning software, there’s always the online Rosetta Stone alternatives with a twist of collaborative learning such as: LiveMocha, Babbel, MangoLanguages, Bussu, and others (which I will discuss in another post). For those who don’t care so much about the “practicing with a community’” part of it and just want [...]

Twitter Newspaper Visualizer – Paper.li

28 Oct 2010 at 07:53

enzofsilva

News, social media, Technology, Web 2.0

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I’ve been meaning to play with Paper.li for a while but haven’t found time to do it (even though it takes 30 seconds to set up). I know. This is a great visualization tool for information shared on your (or someone else’s) Twitter stream. Links, photos, videos and other media are all nicely distributed on [...]

Gamifying Learning

14 Oct 2010 at 08:58

enzofsilva

Educational Games, gamification, social media

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If you google “gamify“, “gamification” or “gamifying”, you will find several entries with this relatively new trend on the Web (the term is normally related to Web design and marketing). I just wrote a short chapter on the “Learning Perspectives: 2010“, Gamifying Learning with Social Gaming Mechanics. This is a topic that intrigues me as [...]

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