As any teacher will tell you, the student is more advanced with technology than themselves. This is mainly due to the fact they were brought up using the internet, playing games and joining sites before they could write properly. To the student, online learning is simply child’s play. Students will adapt quickly to any new [...]
Educators and students are to be moving into a new era in education, as learning software becomes more and more popular there is strong evidence that learning software not only aids the learning process it also helps connect individuals, enhancing collaboration, it increases the speed of which content is delivered and above all lowers the [...]
A question that many people ask “What is elearning?“, Elearning I believe is a simple concept in my opinion, it’s learning online. When we ask “What is elearning?” by definition it’s put across in an over complicated and it’s percieved as modern technology that we don’t yet know or understand. We answer our own question [...]
I’m absolutely loving Googleplus. For education I believe this will be a powerful addition to learning online. Googleplus for education use is my opinion a fantastic open source solution for communication for educators and students.
Conference calling, Googleplus for education and communication
One item I believe is really going to make a big impact is the Googleplus [...]
As a teacher I have document files stored on my computer,on a USB pen drive, my email inbox and some are even on(no longer useful) floppy disks. Collating all this information necessary to do my job I usually place on my USB pen drive,but inevitably I run out of space. It would be far easier [...]
In The Guardian last week there was a fascinating article on using mobile phone technology as a teaching tool. My initial reaction was to scoff at this suggestion, but after reading the article through thoroughly I was given food for thought.
During the 2000s I have warmed to multimedia mostly because of my Blackberry phone. Being [...]
I find working against Social Networking within school-time fruitless. What better way to gain students’ attention than with the very thing they enjoy the most!
Banning Facebook, Bebo and the likes only leads to animosity between student and teacher. Obtaining a ‘happy medium’ seems to be the only answer.
Encouraging Social Learning
Beginning with pages on Facebook to [...]
It is a privilege to have an IT department in schools; having access to servers to store work and the network in order to share digital content, but this is ‘old school’. As you may have heard Cloud storage is the future. Why is it the future? Why is it great for [...]
I am very interested in Intelligent Profiling, I firmly believe it is the future of web applications. There is a huge advantage for this in the education sector, having to analyze your students through interaction alone will build a valuable asset which you can use for many things, mainly feedback.
Gathering data I believe is the [...]
When I decided that all my projects and content were to be presented online for all those to view and download I thought long and hard about what would be the best and most effective way of creating, compiling and tracking those files.
The main focus was the setup, how would the files be presented, how [...]
