Sunday, February 22, 2015

A Space For Learning.: An Interesting Way to Teach.

A fabulous blog post from a year 3 Education Studies student. The module is Learning Environments and in this section of the modules we were looking at the place and value of animation for learning. Caroline has written a very engaging blog which is worth a read. But if you are short on time just check this post out.

A Space For Learning.: An Interesting Way to Teach.: Today I came across a fantastic visual literacy website; The Literacy Shed , that offers animation that can be used within educational plann...

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Charlie's world: Website domains

An interesting post from a 1st year student. Although You do need to consider .gov websites, you can see how they change when the Government changes, so you still need to keep an open mind and to realise that it is still just 'current thinking' at best 'opinion' at worst! Thanks Charlie

Charlie's world: Website domains: What is a domain? A domain is an area that is controlled by a particulate person or company, for instance you may have heard of a lion...

Inspriation Shared

Marking my year 1 blogs The Principals of Change by George Couros was a blog that one of them recommended. I really is a great find for anyone interested in education today. Unfortunately, for me, I got side tracked as I read and listened to more and more of the blog! Quite inspiring, it is great to hear someone so passionate about things that you already believe and try to achieve yourself, and it is so well put. I particularly liked the podcast below. The author of the blog has the opportunity to talk about some of the things that are happening in classrooms around the world with the presenters of Calgary radio show.

In his post introduction paragraph George tells us that the conversation he had with the presenters of the radio show reminded him "...that we have these types of conversations with other educators all of the time, where we should have more of these conversations with our entire community.


They are at the Calgary Teacher's Convention, where George Couros is a Keynote speaker. George talks to Roger and Rob about today's classroom- And how students are using tech to get ahead.  There is a similar convention in Manchester at the end of February that looks great Education Innovation Conference and Exhibition. EICE is an accessible and highly focused event for a cross curriculum audience. It is designed for anyone interested in education. Whether you’re a primary school, secondary school, academy, college or university, EICE seems to have something to inspire. It advertises relevant content for teachers, head teachers, governors, lecturers, department heads, ICT managers, leaders, bursars, and it boasts that EICE is “an event that will inspire and engage all.” Now where is my diary?

Friday, February 6, 2015

EJD: Blog vs Wiki

An interesting blog post from a 1st year student as they explore the realm of online tools to support collaboration and communication in education. - thanks Emily

EJD: Blog vs Wiki: A blog shares a variety of different content, from editorial to multimedia. The blog entries are all in the form of posts. Users are able t...