An elegantly simple slide show by leisa reichelt which underlines the interactive, re-iterative, co-operative nature of the design process skillfully using post-it notes.

Returning to the theme of digital natives and digital immigrants, I notice that Owen writing in futurelab casts doubts in four areas – citing reputable sources as he does so:
- 20-35 year olds are more into game playing than any other group
- adults phone but teenagers use SMS’ because they are cheaper
- ICT is most [...]

Today I made several discoveries one after the other. Very good for one morning! I set out to find information about digital natives and after using my favourite Copernic metasearch engine I found Apple Learning Interchange. Within that I found Ian Juke’s podcast called Learning Environments for Digital Kids in their distinguished educators’ podcasts series. [...]

The only e-portfolios I was familiar with were those used as backup for the language passport and those I saw as a sample from Edinburgh’s MSc so I did some research today. I looked at the OSP opensource portfolio site and took the demo. I also visited the gallery of e-portfolios at Penn State which [...]

Learning theories have never really impressed me because I have always stood back, mused over them and thought that they were fine from one standpoint but they always appeared incomplete to me. They almost all seemed to be bound to one viewpoint. Like travelling on a train and seeing drab factory after factory until you [...]

I have just read the web article ‘Using the New Bloom’s Taxonomy to Design Meaningful Learning Assessments’ by Kevin Smythe & Jane Halonen and I am interested in the following diagram:

The diagram is based on: Clark, B. (2002). Growing up gifted: Developing the potential of children at home and at school. Upper Saddle River, NJ: [...]

As a comprehensive beginner’s guide to e-learning Derek Stockley’s e-journey on e-learning is impressive. Good links are also provided by Learning Light e-Learning Centre in their library section entitled ‘What is e-Learning?’

To get oriented I need to understand the environment I will be operating in.
What are the parameters?
These are useful:
Jeremy Hiebert and the PLE
Donald Darrow and the smart classroom LE
M.J. Stiles and Effective learning and the VLE

During the past couple of weeks I’ve been preparing myself to update my knowledge of the opportunities available in e-learning. In my searches I found an interesting free e-book from Terry Anderson and Fathi Elloumi at Athabasca which I’m working through at present: ‘Theory and Practice of Online Learning’.
There is also a useful WikiEd [...]