100 ways to use a VLE – #89 Embedding a Comic Strip. Often many VLE courses look very “boring”, a list of resources and activities. Often many VLE courses look very “boring”, a list of resources and activities. This is partly down to the fact that a VLE is often seen by practitioners as a repository of content, with links to resources and activities. One way to break up the list is to use embedded graphics to enhance the visual appeal of the course on the VLE. One use of graphic that can enhance the look of a VLE course or as a mechanism to engage learners is to embed a comic strip into the VLE course. Comic strips can be serious as well as humourous. You can either use an existing comic strip or using a tool create your own. If you are in the UK FE/HE sector then one particularly excellent source of comic strips is the British Cartoon Archive . The collection is huge and contains a wealth of historical cartoons and comic strips.
If you like geeky comic strips then check out xkcd . Like so… Calvin and Hobbes. Fire and trothing at #ALTC2010 - dkernohan's posterous. Web 2.0-Based E-Learning - Support web site for Contributors. Never Mind the Edupunks; or, The Great Web 2.0 Swindle (EDUCAUSE Review. © 2010 Brian Lamb and Jim Groom. The text of this article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License ( EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 45, no. 4 (July/August 2010): 50–58 History is hard to know, because of all the hired lies, but even without being sure of "history" it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a moment comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time—and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.
That's kind of what it felt like to be an open ed tech three years ago. Everyone seemed to agree that we had to break down the silos in higher education. Has the wave of the open web crested, its promise of freedom crashed on the rocks of the proprietary web? It's premature to publish an obituary for openness in educational technology just yet. The Rise of Open Educational Technology Web 2.0 Giveth, and It Taketh Away Talk ? Notes.
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