Blended learning – theory and practice

The second week of #flble1 continues apace.  It is clear now that the definition of blended learning used in this course includes “demonstrating the value of the mix of digital and conventional methods in class” as opposed to the definition used here by JISC of “integrating online with traditional face-to-face class activities in a planned, pedagogically valuable… Continue reading Blended learning – theory and practice

DownUp (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...

Week 1 – orientation

The first week of #flble1 is almost over and I wanted to take this opportunity to reflect about how it has worked for me as an orientation week.  Having participated in several moocs and being a fairly active user on Twitter, I consider myself to be fairly up to speed with getting the most out of this type… Continue reading Week 1 – orientation

DownUp (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...

Here we go again

I am writing a blog post.  That must be because I need to sort out the jumble of thoughts and ideas that are going through my brain.  And if my brain is ‘too full’ it must be because I am participating in a #mooc. …

DownUp (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...

Learning to walk

The Mozilla Foundation asks What are the skills, competencies and literacies necessary to read, write and participate in the Web – now and in the future?”  

Thinking about this has made me reflect on areas of my life where I have tried to acquire new skills.…

DownUp (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...

Risking taking risks

This week’s #etmooc sessions have led me down the path of diffusion of innovation theories and I have started to collect together some interesting research sources. I want to explore if and how crossing the chasm can be expedited. However, it will take me a little while to gather my thoughts around this.

DownUp (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...

Critical crap detection

First of all, my apologies for the moving parts in this post. They are a hangover from the last session in #etmooc where I had a go at different digital media tools. If you want to know how they were made please read this post

blogpost

So, this week it is all about digital literacies.…

DownUp (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...

Digital Story Project #3


Five Card Story: Creating memories

a #etmooc story created by debseed


flickr photo by mrsdkrebs


flickr photo by Henriksent


flickr photo by CEThompson


flickr photo by cogdogblog


flickr photo by Henriksent

Summer days. Brothers, sisters, cousins and friends thrilled to be meeting up again for long days at the lake, full of adventure but never too old for old faithful pals.

DownUp (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...

Take 1 of digital story Project #2

Week 1 of digital storytelling for #etmooc, and you don’t get many more stories than when you ride across Europe on a motorbike.  I went to Greece last year on my ‘big’ bike, and this year I will be going on my little Yamaha Serow

In this second storytelling project, I used Popcorn remix with a little bit of Explain Everything as an example of what I could do with the audio, video and images I collect from the trip.…

DownUp (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...