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Apps for education. Locking the (virtual) classroom door | The Elearning Apprentice. Next week I will start training a new group of employed management trainees – apprentices in fact. We will meet for a workshop once a week until Christmas. I have been getting everything ready for them, including setting up their virtual classroom in Edmodo. I think I mentioned in a previous blog that I got involved with using Edmodo for purely practical reasons: some colleagues had been trialling it, and it is free – can’t get more of a bargain than that.
Edmodo is pretty simple to use from the back end and fairly appealing to learners as it resembles Facebook. I will primarily be using it as a resource for learners to access links, electronic copies of training materials and extra materials and news I think they might enjoy such as news on management topics. In anticipation of the new group, I have set them up a virtual classroom. I have started to set up a virtual library in their Edmodo classroom – useful websites (click throughs), generic course info for reference etc. Like this: Publication :: Participatory design in open education: a workshop model for developing a pattern language. Technologically enhanced learning environments raise complex challenges for their designers, developers and users. Design patterns and pattern languages have recently emerged as a potential framework for addressing some of these challenges. However, the uptake of design patterns has been slow outside of the computer science community.
We argue that this is largely a consequence of a weak positioning of pattern languages, as a form of delivering expert knowledge to layperson, and suggest an alternative view: the development of a pattern language as a community endeavour. In terms of open education, the workshop model can be viewed as an open production process for developing educational resources, in our case design patterns. We propose a model of pattern elicitation workshops, in which collaborative development of a pattern language provides a framework for sharing design knowledge within interdisciplinary communities. Publications referenced by this post. Learning patterns for the design and deployment of mathematical games. Napkin Academy | Learn to solve any problem with a simple picture. Tag My Doc - Assign QR Codes to Your Documents.
101 Recommended Educational Web Tools. Classrooms are fundamentally changing right now. You may not see it or even feel like it’s happening anytime soon. But the simple amount of web tools out there designed to genuinely improve education is astounding. With so many tools, it’s hard not to feel like technology is banging on education’s door louder and louder. In an effort to showcase some of the best web tools for teachers, many people put together lists, slideshows, and presentations detailing what they think are the most important or best. This presentation from Eric Schreefel at GoEdOnline is one of the most robust and useful lists around. I clicked through all 101 web tools for teachers and found at least a dozen I had never heard of.
I don’t know if that’s a good thing or bad … but I love learning new stuff so I’m going with the ‘glass is half full’ mentality here. 1. The Teacher's Guides To Technology And Learning. Welcome to the official guide to technology and learning by Edudemic! This part of Edudemic is meant to offer you, the teacher, some of the best and most popular resources available today. We’ve combed through hundreds of resources in order to narrow down our guides into something easy to read, easy to use, and easy to share.
Below are links to the guides we have made so far. They’re always a work in progress so be sure to let us know if we missed something or if you have more resources you want us to call out in the guides. We’re always looking for the best and most useful resources so don’t be shy, share! Just click on the title or image of each guide to view that particular resource. The Teacher’s Guide To Twitter Twitter has proven itself to be an indispensable tool for educators around the globe. The Teacher’s Guide To Flipped Classrooms We talk a lot about flipped classrooms on Edudemic. The Teacher’s Guide To Copyright And Fair Use The Teacher’s Guide To Google Glass.