Anne Fox's Blog (10)

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

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

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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MUVenation

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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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Today's session with Helen and Cris during which we discussed various aspects of Ning has clarified for me how to administer course activity within Ning. I have a group of participants who have started in Moodle and who I will be meeting face to face at the end of the month. The blog function in Ning is ideal as a way of introducing participants to blogs outside of the locked Moodle course but I think that our participants will feel safer if their blog postings have a restricted readership at l… Continue

I have joined several Nings and generally get very little traffic in my email as a result. This is strange since some of them such as Classroom 2.0 have 11,000 members and are very active. Keeping up with what is going on here has been my main w… Continue

On Saturday September 6th over 80 adult education teachers had given up their time to attend a teacher training conference and 17 of those attended our workshop to find out what benefits integrating ICT into their teaching might bring them. The majority were language teachers but there were also teachers of maths, IT and tango. We were guests of Siegburg Volkshochschule at their annual teacher conference where we were meant… Continue

I have acquired what could turn out to be a very interesting teaching activity. It seems that there is a part of the high school curriculum here in Denmark called IT in communication which is an interesting mixture of learning about good design principles, search strategies, online identity, ethics as well as a general familiarisation with online tools such as blogs and podcasts. The strategy of the Technical School is to tackle this within an overall theme which links in with the Danish and soc… Continue

Below are the details for joining a free online session which I am leading on Friday. I am very pleased to be given this opportunity by the EVOLVE project to outline some of the ideas which we have developed in the VITAE project to date and I look forward to receiving some constructive feedback. Date: June 20 Venue: Elluminate http://tinyurl.com/4tcmxh (no password required) Time: 12.00 GMT (13:00 UK, 14:00 CET) It was the digital native and digital im… Continue