Are you creating an information dump or a lively place to learn?
This week I spent some time at ConVerge09 conference. I particularly admired Cathy Moore and her ideas and strategies for developing engaging elearning.
Let me ask you this:
What do people learn when you provide them with reading material?
If you answered ‘knowledge’, you are correct. [...]
People manage to progress merrily through life, using seemingly archaic tools such as ‘email’ (good grief remember when that seemed innovative?) without understanding the etiquette involved.
With Web 2 tools being used in teaching and general communication, it is important for teachers to role model good ‘netiquette’ and also to familiarise their students with it as [...]
Recently, I had lunch with a dear friend. While we were chatting, she told me that she would dearly like to enrol into some computer lessons, so that she doesn’t lose touch with technology. I admire her for realising that this is a need in her life. I was thinking about her comments afterwards and [...]
Working in an institution gave me foundations!
In a past life, (for 28 years) I worked in the disability field, more specifically, with people with intellectual disability and autism. In the late 1970’s I left school in the country, arrived in Melbourne and began work in at Kingsbury Training Centre, a new ‘forward thinking’ institution for [...]
Now that I have got your attention, I will change the heading to:
How to use Facebook safely
I have had 3 conversations this week with people who are ‘afraid of Facebook’ because:
They don’t want their identity stolen
They don’t want the world knowing their details
They think they will be robbed
They believe their children will be kidnapped (from [...]
OK, I admit it, it is addictive and time wasting… but like a lot of Web 2 tools, it has it’s good side.
What is it you ask?
Farm Town is an application in Facebook. My daughter insisted I would love it and she was right.
Farm Town is application that allows users to plow, plant, [...]
You can have a break from reading my blog until late July as I will be traveling Europe until then. I know, it will be difficult but someone’s gotta it!
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Is your organisation pushing or pulling e-learning?
E-learning is in high demand, let’s face it, and teaching and learning organisations are under pressure to keep up with demand.
Are teachers willing to embrace e-learning, or is it a constant struggle or ‘push’ to develop the skills in technology required to create engaging e-learning resources?
Is your organisation recognising [...]
[from Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, Letter to My Colleagues]
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Marketing and recruitment campaigns run hot in this competitive world. Do we deliver to our students what we say we will or are they left feeling disappointed with their expectations unfulfilled?
Just recently, I made a decision which seemed exciting at the time, but unfortunately things didn’t work out as I expected. It has got me [...]
