It's all about learning; the rest is technology: promoting active learning

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About our guest speakers

In two days time we will host our mini-conference online. The event is free and open to everyone interesting in discussing about new approaches to learning by mentoring in the digital age. This is event is organised by Vitae - a two year EC funded project, which aims at empowering vocational teachers to mentor their students and colleagues to work competently in the digital world. The Vitae Consortium has invited key speakers… Continue

Added by Cristina Costa on September 9, 2009 at 7:13am — No Comments

Fun and games in Professional Development?

Fun and Games in professional development Game-based learning (GBL) is being implemented more and more as a central approach rather than an optional add-on. See for example the new Quest2Learn high school opening in the fall in New York. GBL also has an illustrious history in professional spheres such as the army, business, aviation and the medical world. If GBL is effective for learners then why not in our professional development? In this session I invite you to try out three professi… Continue

Added by Anne Fox on May 19, 2009 at 10:19am — No Comments

Integrating Technology and Teacher Collaboration

April 24, 2009

Integrating Technology and Teacher Reflections by Nellie Deutsch

Get your own

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Added by Nellie Deutsch on April 23, 2009 at 2:58pm — No Comments

Live Online Event on Moodle and Twitter for Instruction and Learning

Just click on the image and join the live online event on how to integrate technology with Moodle and Twitter for instruction and learning with Dr. Anne Thorpe and Deirdre Bonnycastle. … Continue

Added by Nellie Deutsch on March 27, 2009 at 10:19am — No Comments

Join Digifolio and Personal Development Spaces

Story Telling with Nellie and Richard

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Added by Nellie Deutsch on January 2, 2009 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Wishing you ...

Happy Holidays! :-)

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Added by Cristina Costa on December 22, 2008 at 7:53pm — No Comments

2009 - The year of Creativity and Innovation

The European Association of Education of Adults has recently released in their website that 2009 is going to be the European Year of Creativity and Innovation. Well, that is about time Creativity and Innovation came hand in hnad with education, and also that it gained the recognition it deserves as part of one's learning process and life long development. In my mind, attached to it is… Continue

Added by Cristina Costa on December 17, 2008 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Are you ready for Virtual Worlds? Second Life is for real!!

I am still marveled by the Online Educa Berlin 08 experience. It mainly has to do with the fact that I was able to meet and talk to so many interesting people, and to learn what they are currently doing. NAd these are people I met sometime ago online and have been collaborating with despite or location differences. It hasn't stopped us from truly connecting and bonding. And the proof is that our first face to face get-together just reinforced the learning interactions we had started online. Lik… Continue

Added by Cristina Costa on December 15, 2008 at 10:40am — No Comments

Online Educa Berlin 08

I was in Berlin and not only did I have a great time, I also had the opportunity to seriously network and meet people I have been wanting to meet, and to talk to, for so long. This was an incredible event in terms of connecting to people who I had only been able to link to online before. It's great when we are able to combine both worlds, and that is exactly what this new brave world allows us. At the end of the first decade of the 21st century, I feel so connected to a wider world... Anyway, t… Continue

Added by Cristina Costa on December 12, 2008 at 1:12pm — No Comments

My first steps in Second Life

The next MUVEnation task is as follows: Please share here your stories about your first hours of life in Second Life. Reflect on your experience: How would you describe your first steps? What were the technical issues, if any? What did you feel about the avatar you chose? What was orientation island like? Could you find help as needed? Where did you go? Did you speak to other avatars? What would improve the experience, if anything? What previous knowledge and… Continue

Added by Anne Fox on November 10, 2008 at 8:00pm — 1 Comment

So what is informal learning then?

MUVENation

I am your friend. I don’t work in education. You are talking to me about the idea that we all learn from each other, in all kinds of contexts, and that this can often be richer than more formal classroom based learning. I am sceptical. Tell me about an informal learning experience you have had online in which collaboration was involved, show me a concrete example to help me to see what you mea

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Added by Anne Fox on November 9, 2008 at 11:38am — 1 Comment

That 'must have' new tool

MUVenation

We all explore new tec

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Added by Anne Fox on November 9, 2008 at 11:35am — No Comments

On being a pioneer

In addition to preparing to moderate one of the EVOnline sessions in January and helping to finalise the tasks for the new Trinity College validated Cert ICT with The Consultants-E I have also signed up as a participant of the MUVEnation course to explore virtual worlds in education. The first task is to write

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Added by Anne Fox on November 9, 2008 at 11:31am — No Comments

Net konference med Niels Damgaard

Nedenstående er helt uredigeret - god fornøjelse vh trolle Slettet efter anmodning fra Niels Damgaard, der har optaget chatten, som kan tilgås neden for: Niels Damgaard har i dag sendt mig følgende: Redigert opptak i MP-3 fil (høyreklikk for downloading) http://www.bibsent.no/nettmote/Diverse/Opptak_Annes_kurs_30_9_08.mp3 Råfilene fra DIMDIM: Click here to view… Continue

Added by Peter Trolle Jakobsen on October 2, 2008 at 11:36am — No Comments

Forskellige mere eller mindre interessante links

http://www.twit.tv/natn en podcast om web 2.0 sider. Meget "støj" men af og til et guldkorn, som denne side, som må være gefundenes fressen for en kemi lærer http://periodicvideos.com/ Det næste link er til en lærers blog (amerikansk såvidt jeg ved). Han skrive om sine erfaringer med at bruge diverse web værktøjer i sin egen undervisning. Der er ikke aktivitet hver dag, men der er mulighed for at abonnere på et rss-feed. http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/ Continue

Added by Per Færmann Christensen on September 30, 2008 at 11:30am — No Comments

Portable programmer

Der er en tendens for tiden med at gøre programmerne portable, hvilket har store fordele i og med at man gør sig mobilt og kan f.eks. afvikle programmerne fra et USB-stik. På VUC Djursland har vi f.eks. samlet en del gratis portable programmer så kursister der ikke har råd til de tilsvarende dyre programmer kan afprøve og evt. kopiere disse til deres USB-stik.

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Added by Ibrahim Gögenur on September 30, 2008 at 10:30am — 1 Comment

Humor er et godt våben til at forstå en digital indvandrer!

I formiddags er der hældt en hel del mere nyt ind under parykken. Med udgangspunkt i en amerikansk viral video om IT og verden, samt en hel pose humor i denne video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQHX-SjgQvQ har vi arbejdet med den nye lærerrolle, oplevelsesbaseret læring Dagens overskrifter har været: - blogs, vi skulle oprette vores egen i Ning. Samtidig fik et ark med en masse steder hvor alle kan oprette deres egen blog. - podcast, en lydfil blev optaget og udleveret til Anna som vi oploa… Continue

Added by Helle Lauvring on September 30, 2008 at 7:30am — No Comments

Min blog

Besluttede mig til, trods alt, at oprette mig herinde... Men jeg vælger at skrive på min egen blog. Jeg kan ikke styre to. Men min blog kan så læses her: http://blog.reif.dk Continue

Added by Rikke on September 29, 2008 at 6:28pm — 1 Comment

Evaluering af dagen

godt at se en masse forskellige muligheder og være sammen med en gruppe som brænder for det at arbejde med web 2. Det der "taler" mest til mig er let tilgængelighed, at man kan komme til det på en hvilken som helst netadgang og at man kan arbejde på mange forskellige niveauer, og indrette det eleverne skal bruge med mulighed for at vælge intro i forhold til f.eks. forskellige læringsstile. Continue

Added by Astrid Pilegaard Larsen on September 29, 2008 at 6:17pm — 1 Comment

fordøjelse

Sikke en spændende dag! Der er blevet sagt og vist utroligt mange forskellige ting - dog står et par ting tilbage, som jeg vil arbejde videre med i morgen. Jeg vil oprette et ning netværk til klassen. Det skal bruges som samlingssted for de forskellige værktøjer og elevernes produkter. Derudover vil jeg undersøge hvilke muligheder der er for at lade eleverne lave deres egne fagbøger. Om det lige er det ene, eller det andet værktøj, der skal i sving ved jeg ikke rigtig, men under alle omstændighe… Continue

Added by Rasmus on September 29, 2008 at 5:15pm — 1 Comment