Social Networking for a Good Cause
I read a post from David Warlick today entitled Helping Darfur from MySpace. I thought I would link it hear as well as a follow up to a post I wrote a while ago regarding Amnesty International and their efforts to use satellites to track/watch for villages being destroyed in Darfur . The article mentioned […]
Does solving a problem only create more problem?
I had the pleasure of meeting and listening to Peter de Jager this morning. I had heard him speak in Boston in April and arranged to have him come to our facility to speak to our management team members. He once again spoke eloquently, with a great deal of humour and real life images we […]
How not to use PowerPoint
5 PowerPoint awakenings happened this week to me. I recently created a “how to” or “walkthru” using PowerPoint. After finishing I realized, what the heck am I doing, everything I know not to do I just did. So I started again and got it much better, or so the users say. Brent Schlenker also reminded […]
Do the Australians Have IT!
I was working on my last assignment this week for my current course and every time I searched for information on various topics (course work: limiting multimedia, facilitating communication, student time management, healthy online communities, student increased responsibilities, variety adds appeal, fostering critical thinking, and learning from peers) I kept coming across really great and […]
My 2nd Wiki Was Wonderful (and successful)
So 8 short days ago I set up my second attempt at a wiki. This one was created to survey our management team instead of the traditional surveymonkey or zoomerang ones that we more often used. This time we wanted to capture from our team those behaviours that we premote and those we permit in […]
I wish I was European…I could go to Mars
The European Space Agency (Esa) is seeking volunteers for a simulated human trip to Mars, in which six crew spend 17 months in an isolation tank. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6221424.stm Sounds like fun to me!
Importance of learning from peers. (course work)
Learning from peers is extremely important and something we do from the beginning of life. We learn how to walk and talk from imitating our patients. We perhaps learn to tie our shoes from watching a sibling do it and then trying ourselves. Half of what we learn in life is because we experienced it […]
Strategies for fostering critical thinking. (course work)
A recent submission to my elearning course. “Critical thinking is a process that challenges an individual to use reflective, reasonable, rational thinking to gather, interpret and evaluate information in order to derive a judgment. The process involves thinking beyond a single solution for a problem and focusing on deciding what the best alternatives are.”[i] There […]
Variety adds appeal as a moderator. (course work)
A recent submission to my elearning course. Adding variety to your course will create a huge impact on your learners allowing them to be more engaged in the material being presented and having a greater vested interesting in the quality and quantity of education that they are receiving. Colonial Intermediate Unit 20 has a wonderful […]
eLearning students have more responsibility and less structure. (course work)
A recent submission to my elearning course. Virtual students need to spend a great deal more time in an online learning environment then in a classroom course for many reasons. One of these is to keep up with the amount of reading and writing to discussion boards regarding class material. “Online courses are often more […]