Tom Kuhlmann: “I get a lot of questions about whether or not to add background music to e-learning courses. That’s like answering whether or not you should put a blue square in your course. If the blue square makes it …
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Seven Habits of Highly Connected People
The first thing any connected person should be is receptive. Whether on a discussion forum, mailing list, or in a blogging community or gaming site, it is important to spend some time listening and getting the lay of the land.…
Buying an E-Book reader? Here’s What You Need to Know
Want to purchase an e-reader? There’s a lot of hype to cut through.
…Canadian Ebook Store Offers ‘Free’ Public Domain Ebooks – Claims Copyright Says You Can Only Make 1 Copy
Canadian Ebook Store Offers ‘Free’ Public Domain Ebooks — Claims Copyright Says You Can Only Make 1 Copy
…Selling Lessons Online Raises Cash and Questions
Selling Lessons Online Raises Cash and Questions
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/education/15plans.html?_r=1
…Quality post-secondary education in Canada: How can we know?
The Canadian Council for Learning has released another report, this time on quality in post secondary institutions in Canada.
…New Teen-Produced Reality Series Shows How Teens Use Digital Media to Shape Their Lives
This post post announces “the launch of StudentSpeak, a new teen-produced reality series on how teens use digital media in their day-to-day lives. Every other week, students will take viewers inside their world, and show how technology is transforming how …
Teaching Teachers to Use Blended Learning
In 2008, Charles Sturt University introduced CSU Interact, a learning management system based on the Sakai framework. Pedagogically, the new tool supports a social constructivist approach to e-learning. Students are required to wield a range of digital tools, such as …
Open Educational Resources: The implications for educational development (SEDA)
Dave Cormier questions some underlying presumptions of resource repositories in this examination of open educational resources (OERs). “There is a presumption in traditional learning design that a given trainer is somehow going to be able to divine the needs of …
Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009: The Final List
Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009: The Final List
…How to become part of a blogging ecosystem?
So often, people create a blog, write a few posts,, and then wonder why they haven’t attracted any readers (or they create a Facebook or twitter account, write a few posts, and wonder why they don’t have any followers). To …
State of the Nation: K-12 Online Learning in Canada
Comprehensive report on the state of online learning at the K-12 level in Canada.
http://www.inacol.org/research/docs/iNACOL_CanadaStudy_200911.pdf
…Web Based Twitter Clients – Which Is Right For You?
Web Based Twitter Clients – Which Is Right For You?
http://thenextweb.com/appetite/2009/11/24/web-based-twitter-clients/
…E-learning 2.0
E-learning as we know it has been around for ten years or so. During that time, it has emerged from being a radical idea—the effectiveness of which was yet to be proven—to something that is widely regarded as mainstream. It’s …
25 practical ideas for using Mobile Phones in the Classroom
Good list of ideas, credited to Doug Belshaw.
http://www.pontydysgu.org/2009/11/25-practical-ideas-for-using-mobile-phones-in-the-classroom/
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