Teaching and learning with technology
Yesterday I spoke at the Taccle project final confernce on the theme of the Future of e-learning. It is a big subject to deal with in twenty minutes and I hope that it at least was coherent. The...
View ArticleTeachers talking about social software
The main aim of the TACCLE project was to help teachers improve their use of technology for e-learning, and to do this they created a handbook. In addition they provided courses to guide teachers in...
View Article25 practical ideas for using Mobile Phones in the Classroom
We have been writing a lot about ideas on how mobile devices, and particularly phones might be used to support learning. But most of this work has been from a somewhat theoretical angle. Now Jenny...
View ArticleThe New Media School
Last Wednesday I was honoured to speak (via skype) at the launch of the New Media School in Bucharest. The launch took place in the Modern Art Museum who are a partner in the project. The New Media...
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Handbook for teachers on practical use of Web 2.0 and social software
Some of you may remember that in May I posted an order form for the EU Taccle project handbook on e-Learning – snappily entitled “Teachers Aids on Creating Content for Learning Environments.” Don’t be...
View ArticleThe E-nigma decoder: A teacher’s guide to intercepting enemy communication
This is Jen blog-squatting on Graham’a blog again with another TACCLE post. Some weeks ago I rashly promised I would try and provide some regular input to the Pontydysgu site on Practical Ideas for...
View ArticleUsing Web 2.0 tools for learning
The EU funded Politics project is using a web based story telling process to encourage ypoung people to explore politcial involvement and develop their own ideas around politica;l issues and events....
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Rethinking e-Portfolios
The second in my ‘Rethinking’ series of blog posts. This one – Rethinking e-portfolios’ is the notes for a forthcoming book chapter which I will post on the Wales wide Web when completed.. Several...
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You’ve seen the Taccle Handbook – now here is the course
Many of you have ordered copies of the Taccle handbook which should have been delivered to you by now. The handbook was produced as part of the Taccle project. TACCLE or Teachers’ Aids on Creating...
View ArticleChanging the ways we teach and learn
I am towards the end of a long series of meetings, hence the limited posts on this site of late. Whilst the meetings have involved far too much travel (and I wonder if some could have been better done...
View ArticleNew pedagogies and the training of teachers and trainers (Part 1)
I am writing a report on new pedagogic approaches to the use of technology for teaching and learning. In particular I am looking at three key issues: A summary of definitions of digital pedagogy and/or...
View ArticleTeaching and learning in practice
I am in Blankenberge (somewhere on the north coast of Belgium) all this week where. together with Jenny Hughes, I am running a European funded course on using social software in the classroom. The...
View ArticleBlankenberge Radio Day
I’ve been quiet on the blog lately. The last two days I have been rushing to finish a long – and behind schedule – report on pedagogic approaches to the use of technology for teaching and learning and...
View ArticleSocial networks, research and education
Warning – this article is not based on any reliable research. However it is based on talking to a lot of people over the summer about their attitudes towards social networks and how they use them. Most...
View ArticleThe one hundred word challenge
Its very encouraging to see the emergence of an increasing number of imaginative primary school websites and blogs. I love the 100 word challenge from the Kirkheaton Primary School blog. James Roberts...
View ArticleTaccle 2 underway
Many of you signed up on a form here for the first Taccle handbook, on using social software and web 2.0 for teaching and learning. The handbook was written for teachers wanting to introduce e-learning...
View ArticleDream Weaver
Last week I wrote about the TACCLE 2 project. Amongst other things, I said, TACCLE will provide for teachers: 5 step-by-step guides to integrating ICT and e-learning in YOUR classroom: primary...
View Article33 more ways to use a mobile phone in the classroom
Thought it was about time we had another of these. I just found this crowdsourced collection of tips, ideas and ways to use mobiles for learning (click here). It says in the classroom but we all know...
View ArticleTaccle 2 website launched
The Taccle 2 project web site has been launched. the project is developing 5 step-by-step guides to integrating ICT and e-learning in the classroom: primary education, maths, science and technology,...
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