S Collections (pdfs) Moodle Tool Guide for Teachers. Five ways to ‘gamify’ your elearning. Written by Joe Hastings Is 2014 the year gamification can be taken of the ‘to do’ list and put into practice?
While it has been a buzzword in the elearning industry for years now, it seems like this year the time has come for gamification to start delivering real benefits for online learning. Gamification - the use of game play mechanics for non-game applications - promises much: an engaging, dynamic, memorable and rewarding learning experience. But it can be very difficult to know where to start. Most of us know and enjoy games, but how do those experiences relate to the elearning course that you’re working on right now? 1. A common way to relay a subject to a learner is to put it into some kind of real world scenario the learner can relate to, then let them participate and observe the situation as it unfolds. 2.
These may be a photographic representation of a real world environment or they could be a cartoon/stylised version. 3. 4. Reward systems are at the heart of gamification. 5. Education - Learning Technologies Daily. 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. Articulate examples. Assessing VLEs in education. Dalziels hot topics JISC. Dalziels Scoop.It technologies. Showcasing best practice through film making. Guest blogger, Alan McGhee from North Lanarkshire Council tells us how he worked with social services staff to showcase best practice and encourage the development of film making skills.
Hi, my name is Alan McGhee and I am the new Media and Communications Graduate at North Lanarkshire Council. I am delighted to have been asked by IRISS to write this blog to talk about my work. I find that blogging is an extremely useful tool in engaging with others with similar interests and also allows me to reach new audiences that may take an interest in what I do. So what exactly does the Media and Communications Graduate do at North Lanarkshire Council? That’s a good question. Aside from drinking a lot of tea, I am responsible for developing and creating several short films that will be shown at the North Lanarkshire Council Social Work Roadshows in September 2014, where all staff comes together.
Learning Techs Exhibition magazine. Subscribe today to the essential organisational learning and learning technology publication Inside Learning Technologies and Skills is the dedicated publication that supports the Learning Technologies and Learning and Skills exhibition and conference and is published six times in the lead up to the exhibition and conference at Olympia.
The magazines (May, June, October, November, December and January) are produced in digital format with a circulation of over 80,000 L&D professionals delivering a wide variety of rich media content across multiple platforms (including the majority of mobile devices used for web browsing, including iPads, iPhones and Androids). The sixth magazine (January) is also the show guide issue and distributed to all pre-registered visitors and delegates in the lead up to Learning Technologies and Learning and Skills. View the digital version of the latest magazine publishing dates. Using Facebook in education. Our College has produced a brilliant example of appropriate and very active use of social networking in education.
A photography tutor, James Cunliffe, who initiated the whole project shares his experience and views on benefits and pitfalls of engaging with Facebook for supporting learning. Advantages It is a format most students are familiar with and use frequently. Before starting the page I asked how many of my group had a Facebook account and how often they used it. All but one of the 26 of them had an account and every single one of them checked it every night. It is a private group. All content is private and cannot be viewed by other Facebook users.
Students can add content such as links to websites, create or participate in discussions or simple ask for help on the group’s wall. Tutors can also create or add content such as links to TV programmes they should watch, websites they should look at or news articles of specific interest.