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Technology to enhance learning with students with disabilities (John Mandelberg and Annick Janson at Sharefest)

Posted on September 28, 2010 by ictenhancedlearningandteaching

Image via Wikipedia John Mandelberg and Annick Janson spoke about how technology can enhance learning for children with disabilities. Annick Janson introduced a short video clip of her son who has Aspergers, and has discovered his talent as an artist. … Continue reading →

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Online course peer review as a PD process (Stephen Bright at Sharefest)

Posted on September 28, 2010 by ictenhancedlearningandteaching

Stephen Bright opened with some key questions around the case study (funded by ASCILITE). and a wonderfully visual metaphor of the twisted rope and the fibres of the rope twined together make it stronger than the whole of the parts. … Continue reading →

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Using QR Codes, video clips and trades training: A pilot study (Kevin Hall and Mike Crosson at Sharefest)

Posted on September 27, 2010 by ictenhancedlearningandteaching

Image via Wikipedia Kevin Hall and Mike Crosson are based at Wintec and have been piloting QR codes and video clips in trades training – partly to encourage students to do some revision. QR codes are described in Wikipedia as … Continue reading →

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Confessions of an Online Facilitator (Sarah Stewart at Sharefest)

Posted on September 27, 2010 by ictenhancedlearningandteaching

Sarah Stewart talked about facilitating online, from a personal viewpoint, around her experiences of facilitating ‘open courses’ (run in Wiki Educator). She also explained what an open course actually is. The wiki is used mainly as an LMS type approach, … Continue reading →

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A Black Box Approach to eLearning Course Design and Review (Steve Lowe at Sharefest)

Posted on September 27, 2010 by ictenhancedlearningandteaching

Steve Lowe started the sessionby explaining that he has been playin g with Moodle for about 10 years. His system (used in a loose sense…aka total chaos) is trying to get some sense into the chaos. One of Steve’s points … Continue reading →

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Can you teach a manual skills like shorthand via e-learning (Joanne True at Sharefest)

Posted on September 27, 2010 by ictenhancedlearningandteaching

Image via WikipediaJoanne began by offering some background to the one part qualification National Diploma in Journalism; four semesters, part-time. that they wanted to offer that included Teelin shorthand. It is really difficult to describe shorthand with text (there are … Continue reading →

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E-learning: Making change happen at the institutional level (Peter Loom at Sharefest)

Posted on September 27, 2010 by ictenhancedlearningandteaching

Image by Getty Images via @daylifePeter Loom began by introducing the notion of eLearning, and then explored in greater depth the big picture of eLearning, what’s in it for us, for the teacher, for the institution, for the key stakeholders, … Continue reading →

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