SHIFT eLearning Blog Mark Smithers' Personal Blog EDge21 In the 1984 film Teachers, Royal Dano played a teacher named Ditto Stiles. Ditto was known for having virtually no interactions with his students. He had established a system by which students automatically distributed "ditto" worksheets that would be collected at the end of the class by other students. Throughout the class, Ditto would hide behind a newspaper. Ultimately, Ditto dies in the classroom, but isn't discovered until the end of the day as his students continue to follow the standard routine. In the following clip, Ditto gets into a confrontation with the school psychologist over the use of the Ditto machine. If you are an educator of a certain age (as am I), you likely have many memories, both good and maybe not so good, of the “Ditto machine." In North America, "Ditto" is a brand name which was commonly used for a spirit duplicator (referred to as a Banda machine in the UK, a Roneo in France and Australia). More Ditto in Pop Culture
The Rapid eLearning Blog - Practical, real-world tips for e-learning success. Creating great interactive learning experiences requires a few core building blocks: relevant content, pull versus push, and real-world decisions. With those building blocks you're able to structure effective learning scenarios that are meaningful to the learner and helps meet the objectives of the course. One of those building blocks in creating relevant content or content that is placed in a meaningful context. Essentially, you want to recreate the types of scenarios that are similar to the ones the learner has in real life. This allows them to see the content in ... Read the full article After last week's post on the different drag & drop interaction examples, I had quite a few emails asking for tips on how to create drag and drop interactions for elearning. Sliders are used as a means to make adjustments/selections or as a simple way to navigate content. It helps to look at what others are doing to get ideas and inspiration for your own work. Create ...
Cool Cat Teacher Blog The Reed Diaries Ozge Karaoglu's Blog - About apps and web tools, and being a teacher … The Power of Educational Technology DynaMind eLearning – Tailoring eLearning solutions | DynaMind eLearning We are currently working on an interesting e-learning development project for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). It is a course to ensure IFRC staff and partners apply the IFRC Principles and Rules in their day-to-day work. Legal compliance courses are some of the most boring e-learning you will find out there. It’s a great challenge to make compliance training interesting and to get the learner hooked. What’s so hard? We need to have a much closer look at the root causes of the problem. Application is an even bigger problem. If there are just a couple of rules to comply with, it’s easy. But what do you do with over a hundred rules? We use the principle – borrowed from traditional distance learning design – that is called ‘wrap around’. We applied the same ‘wrap around’ design approach for the development of an e-learning module on the Code of Conduct for the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID). Not frightened anymore?
Teacher Reboot Camp Using a Back channel in a Blended Classroom Using Backchannel Tools in a Blended Classroom June is Tech Month at school. Colleagues are sharing the use of a web tool in a forum style CPD during this month. I'm currently Trialling "Titanpad" as a backchannel. The backchannel has been used as a supplement to a conference presentation. I first encountered it a couple of years ago at a 21st Century learning conference. What is a backchannel? A backchannel is an synchonous conversation that takes place before, during or after a meeting. Users then post content such as discussions, comments, resources, insights or observations directly onto the pad. Uses of Backchannel -A Faculty meeting decides to combine minutes on a Titan Pad. -A workshop presenter at an CPD session uses a backchannel to share links and pose discussion questions. Key Questions to consider: Why is it better than a shared google document? Backchannel Model Scaffold This scaffold is necessary in order to structure user contribution and set up the guidelines for posting.
Six Things