Fantastic resource for our team as we work with teachers!
from the Australian Flexible Learning Framework…
In 2006 some of the past New Practices in Flexible Learning project
teams developed workshop resources for their projects. These workshops
are now available as professional development opportunities on a fee
for service basis, and to further enhance the sustainability of these
innovative practices the […]
engage - transforming teaching and learning through technology
For educational purposes, a podcast could be:
* course audio files, e.g. bird calls or heart sounds
* mini lessons with audio and visuals, eg., glossaries with sound and images, slides with voice-over explanations
* audio or video case studies containing interview with experts or other speakers
* multimedia presentations created by […]
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“Different Voices, Different Spaces is a collection of resources that features a ‘good practice’ model applied to voice technologies in teaching and learning within a range of adult education and vocational training settings.
This collection comes out of a 2005 New Practices in Flexible Learning initiative linking an external educational mentor with three voice […]
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from Dave Warlick : “Rather than getting their content exclusively from a packaged information product, designed to make learning slick and easy, students are asked to visit a variety of information sources, that, hopefully, do not agree on every aspect of the topic. It puts more responsibility of learning, on the shoulders of […]
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from Kirk Montgomery, a list of sites that offer icons issued under a mix of Creative Commons (CC) license, General Public License (GPL), and the Lesser General Public License (LGPL).
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This website has been developed by and includes lots of short and useful PD resources on the following topics:
link to pdf From Educause
“A screencast is a screen capture of the actions on a user’s computer
screen, typically with accompanying audio, distributed through RSS. In the same way that a screenshot is a static representation of a computer screen at a point in time, a screencast captures what happens on a monitor over a period […]
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Hadn’t blogged this before. The short online audio editor could be a handy tool for working with teachers.
“You can subscribe to podcasts, tag ‘em, but more– you can record directly into a Flash tool a short audio (3 minutes), and you can even phone in a recording.”
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Published from 1997 to 2003, The Technology Source (ISSN 1532-0030) was a peer-reviewed bimonthly periodical whose purpose was to provide thoughtful, illuminating articles that would assist educators as they face the challenge of integrating information technology tools into teaching and into managing educational organizations.
This Web site maintains all of the articles […]
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both an article and podcast providing some guidelines on podcasting in education, quite a bit of commonsense, and would provide a good summary for beginners in this area. Conversation between Susan Smith Nash and Rob Reynolds of Xplanazine.
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A short ‘howto’ guide to podcasting from the University of Wisconsin, including some advice which hits the mark to my mind…
# Instead, talk as if you were speaking with a student sitting right in front of you in your office.
# Express your passion, enthusiasm and excitement for the content material in your voice […]
I’ve taken the idea of a feedbook, tested out various ways of implementing one in my context and come up with a working version. I came across the idea of a feedbook from Dave Cormier and it has also been influenced by various ideas from Leigh Blackall (networked learning) and George Siemens (connectivism) and many […]
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from Stephen Downes:
“MyGlu solves all that. Using code from Edu_RSS (which was way ahead of SuprGlu in this sort of thing, in case people have forgotten), MyGlu allows you to define your own list of feeds (including your own del.icio.us feeds), merge them into a single feed, and place the results on your […]
X4L Staff Development Resources
from FERL this website includes the plans for what looks to be a solid workshop on social bookmarking and how that can be used with students. I think if I am to entice some use of the feedbook concept, presentations of this ilk would be very useful. Must come back and […]
I’ve put together my thoughts about the feedbook here [click thumbnail for larger image]
UPDATE:
A semi-working example is at this location. This version uses css for layout and suprglu to make the mixed feed on the left hand side.
It’s more complex in the building than I would like but fulfilling the end purpose better than […]
