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Developments in e-learning. Jim Judges jim.judges@wlv.ac.uk. email SMS. Blogging Podcasting Wikis. e-learning. e-learning can provide : opportunities for student-centred and collaborative working change from power over learners to “power of the learners”. learning.
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Developments in e-learning Jim Judges jim.judges@wlv.ac.uk
email • SMS
Blogging • Podcasting • Wikis
e-learning • e-learning can provide: • opportunities for student-centred and collaborative working • change from power over learners to “power of the learners” learning
Blog is an abbreviation of “weblog”A weblog is a diary or journal which is published on the Internet and is updated periodically. Some schools and colleges are setting up departmental blogs as a means of communicating with students, keeping them informed and reminding them of forthcoming events, exam timetables, deadlines and similar. For example, athttp://www.chemistry.blog-city.com/ This is a blog written by an IT tutor who uses it to review and share free IT resources for adult education.http://aceuk.blogspot.com/ One Day in Historyhttp://www.historymatters.org.uk/output/Page99.asp e-learning learning
Getting started with Blogs… www.bloglines.com e-learning www.blogger.com learning …contact Anna for help
Getting started with Blogs… • Activity: • (1) Visit www.bloglines.com - sign up for an account - subscribe to some blogs of interest (try using “quick pick subscriptions”) • (2) Visit www.blogger.com - Scroll to the bottom and look at Blogs of note & Random Blogs - Consider creating a blog e-learning learning
What is a 'podcast'? (1) According to Creative Labs, it stands for "Personal On Demand broadCAST" (2) Ben Hammersley first used the phrase in the Guardian on February 12, 2004, as a synonym for "audioblogging“ as a contraction of "broadcasting" and "iPod" (as a byword for MP3 players).
Podcasting • Podcasting has the potential to offer: • Learning on demand, at anytime and anywhere (including on the bus or train) • Engagement through the use of emerging technology
Podcasting Podcasting in Education – examples and ideas Ready Made BBC Podcasts Sample news file
Other Audio Content Spoken Wikipedia Articles Educational Podcasts
Example Activity – Using Audio Helen Keller (1) How old was Helen Keller when she died? (2) What is the likely cause of her deafness and blindness?
Podcasting • Activity • Audacity Demo… • http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ • Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder You can use Audacity to: • Record live audio. • Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs. • Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and WAV sound files. • Cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds together. • Change the speed or pitch of a recording. • ..and more
“Wiki“ is a Hawaiian-language word for fast. The word is sometimes interpreted as the backronym for "what I know is", which describes the knowledge contribution, storage and exchange function Wikis
A website or similar online resource which allows users to add and edit content collectively Wiki
Ideas for Using Wikis to Support Learning • A teacher could post some key revision words for students to expand into definitions / pages. • Students could work in groups on collaborative documents such as a group report • Course notes could be refined over the duration of the course by both students and teachers • Students could research new topics and contribute their findings • Teacher can start a writing prompt and have students add parts to create a comprehensive class writing activity. • A teacher could start a story and students could create links off it which would allow the story to follow different, interactive paths. • A wiki could be a great tool for collaboratively constructing answers to exam questions
Wikis Activity (1) Edit one of the Wikis http://animalsalphabet.pbwiki.com/ Stretch Activities - If time allows: (2) Look at the page on podcasts (& follow links and contribute) (3) Visit wikipedia and search “spoken articles” (4) Set up your own Wiki at www.pbwiki.com Add a comment to the Forumhttp://jimjudges.proboards85.com/
Developments in e-learning Jim Judges jim.judges@wlv.ac.uk