Images4Education. Week 3.

No matter what your teaching objectives might be, a class activity is always addressed to a certain group. Consequently, it’s usually difficult for me to design an activity when I’m on holidays.
Our task for week 3 was to create three slide shows using three different tools: Animoto, Slideshare and the slideshow in Big Huge Labs. [...]

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People with Tools

My thoughts a month ago.
I already had the suspicion I was a a member of too many nings. In fact, I couldn’t even remember which ones I had signed up for. I accidentally found my Ning profile: 16. Impossible to participate, even impossible to read. Lurk? How would I lurk if I didn’t know where…
This [...]

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Images4Education – Week 2

I loved one of the tasks for last week. We had to write a poem about our origins. I had never written a poem, the first time I saw the task I thought, ‘How am I going to do this?’ Then I forgot the I can’t, I never, no way and got to work on [...]

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Images4Education- Week 1

Learning environments
Wiki

The whole session is scheduled on a wiki.
The sort of organization wikis allow make them easy to navigate.
It ’s great to know all the syllabus in advance. It allows you to get organized and reduces anxiety.

Ning

The place for sharing, socializing, making suggestions and looking for help
It’s easy to use, quite intuitive, really.
The pages and [...]

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EVO09

Registration for EVO sessions has just started.
I’m about to sign up for two of them:
Collaborative Writing
Why?
Last year I explored (or rather attempted to explore) collaborative writing with my students. Some questions have not been answered yet:

How to break the “group work” tradition which always results into a sort of Frankenstein piece of writing.

How to facilitate [...]

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