Below is the first of a set of 8 courses that feature both on this blog and also over on The EDtech Portal. These screencasts will talk you through how to create a simple iBook for use in a classroom. Note: If you want certification for this course you can take it over on The…
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Teaching a digital media course has been an endless exciting journey of app exploration. The module is so vague you can make most apps work and change the content around depending on an individual class group. As part of the module descriptor there is an option for students to create iBooks/eBooks. For the first couple…
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Ok so I don’t know about the rest of you but I have an tons of different content that I have created over the last number of years. When going to job interviews or talking to people a CV is great but sometimes it doesn’t really do enough to show off us ‘creative types’. At…
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So another institute down and what a great one it was! I was honoured to be able to attend this one as an alumni and really enjoyed it. I loved being a board member and all the things we had to do. It was great being able to share my story in the showcase…
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I have had a lot of messages about this recently and I’m sure those going to the Netherlands will hear more but I want to just explain how I used iTunes U for portfolios this year. Previously i had problems that some might remember where an external examiner did not like receiving work digitally (via…
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Many of us use Socrative in our classrooms. I have been encouraging colleagues to try and use it too but they are often reluctant figuring it is complicated. I was recently encourages to create this course and iBook by teachers who did take my word for it being easy and ended up trying it and…
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As a starting point for your investigation into the use of big datasets outside education, read at least two of the online stories listed below: Duhigg, (2012), How companies learn your secrets Netflix (2009), The Netflix prize rules Mangalindan (2012), Amazon’s recommendation secret. Now extend your reading by searching for “big data” (if you use Google, double…
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Write a short blog post suggesting one additional technology that is important for open education, either from the role of a learner or a provider. The technology can be one that has been significant, or one that you feel is going to become increasingly relevant. What you include as a technology can be quite broad:…
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What is your own experience and view? When I started teaching the focus was all on the technology. Teachers were being given macbook and iPads, classes were being fitted out with new computers there was no real budget if you justified a need for it you got it. As previously mentioned however people asked for…
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Take the description of the short course on digital skills that you developed in Week 8 and recast it, so that it adopts a highly connectivist approach. Or, if you prefer, you could take this ‘Open education’ block as an example and recast it in a more connectivist model, or another course you have familiarity…
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