If you are a teacher, trainer, an ELT decision maker or studying for an MA or PhD we can help to keep you informed about the latest ELT and educational technology news and research with a new collection of links every week.
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"Edupunk" is an educational approach that combines creative drive with a maverick attitude, celebrating a kind of cocky, do-it-yourself confidence in which the educator—or possibly the student—designs the tools for teaching and learning. It speaks directly to the corporatization of education—and doesn't say nice things about it.
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The eLearning Guild conducted a survey of its members, asking for their favorite tips relating to strategies for effectively creating, managing, and using synchronous e-Learning.
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The project is designed to investigate how social networking services can and are being used to support personalised formal and informal learning by young people in schools and colleges.
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Not immediately obvious was the fact that the online learning environment embraces—in that strange and virtual way of the Web—active participation by students, who are responsible for discovering and learning more about a subject and communicating in writing.
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Teaching children as young as three to write short sentences and use punctuation has little effect on their literacy skills later on, according to research which raises new questions about the government's plan for a curriculum for the under-fives.
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“It’s basically an ongoing experiment to create a portal for me and my students to work online,” he explains. “We tried every social media application you can think of. Some worked, some didn’t.”
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My negative comments on Second Life in my July 2nd post inspired several replies which rightly chastised me for being too one sided. Given that readers of the e-mail version of this newsletter don't automatically get the comments, I am reproducing them here
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This excellent slide show makes the case for the growing importance of micro-blogging. It makes a case for "social objects" rather than social networking, and then lays out 5 principles for building services around them.
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A presentation about school design that I made in hopes of sparking some discussion in the Milton-Freewater School District. The presentation usually has music and slide-timing.
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Supports teachers by bringing the latest, most up-to-date video learning resources right into the classroom, Engages students with media that they relate and respond to, Uses the technology available in today's schools, promoting a stimulating learning environment.
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The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research is an online, open access academic journal that adheres to the highest standards of peer review and engages established and emerging scholars from anywhere in the world. The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research is a transdisciplinary journal that engages a wide spectrum of scholarship and welcomes contributions from the many disciplines and approaches that intersect virtual worlds research.
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A number of trends have combined to make it attractive and feasible for teachers, trainers, and instructional designers to produce video learning objects-short video units as opposed to complete video programs. Video Learning Objects can be included in an online course or workshop or posted on a Content Management System
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