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Learning the Hybrid Ropes
Photo taken from http://www.flickr.com/photos/auntiep/ I venture into the hybrid sphere heavily armed. In the first place, people I rely on to get the latest news and relevant research on blended...
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Hybrid, Flipped, or My Personal Blend
‘Enough research will tend to support your theory’ Murphy’s Law Photo by @AnnaMusielak via ELTPics on Flickr I like things clearly defined. I work better when I know the boundaries. Knowing the range I...
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The LMS is dangerous for good teachers that aren’t also good pedagogues. It determines too much in advance by presenting an interface that asks the user to approach it in very particular ways. What’s...
View ArticleSynchronous Tools and How to Use them in Classroom or Dislocated – webinar...
The rise of web conferencing is evident. Web conference technologies provide a powerful tool for a wide range of activities. They offer an innovative framework for educational programs as well as...
View ArticleFinding and Using #OER – webinar announcement
For OER to really make an impact on mainstream education the resources need to be packaged together in related groups of resources or forming a learning path towards a particular learning outcome....
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Blended courses are like onions. They have layers.
“Good teaching may overcome a poor choice of technology but technology will never save bad teaching.” Tony Bates Photo courtesy PDPhoto.org This is my first attempt at designing a blended course and I...
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Goal 1 – Define your moment #30GoalsEdu
Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got. Arch Buchwald Here I am joining 9000 educators in the fourth cycle of 30 Goals Challenge. My practice so far was to...
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Goal 2 – Avoid Burnout #30GoalsEdu
That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say No in any of them. Alexander Woollcott While Rome Burns (1934),’Our Mrs Parker’. by Jazbeck on Flickr Burnout? I know burnout. At one point in my...
View ArticleThis Week’s Finds – 30th June
I might have the knowledge that it is a potato, but I need teaching the skills to make mash or sag aloo. Without skills, it is just a potato. @jackdisco I’m starting this post, and a new weekly series,...
View ArticleStarting off a School Year with a Pow (Toon)
This year I will be co-teaching an elective course in academic writing. Besides wanting to design the course to be more than a list of writing tasks and deadlines, I also wanted to attract students to...
View ArticleWelcome video for a blended course
It took a lot of time and contemplation, but I’ve finally made a welcome video for my hybrid course on Moodle. Filmed material that didn’t make the cut served perfectly for this Magisto movie The...
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Invitation: 39th ELT Blog Carnival – Blogging with students
My first year students registering for the class blog. The February 2014 edition of the ELT Blog Carnival will explore blogging with students and will be hosted here. I would like to invite you to take...
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Blogging with students – rebooting writing assignments
Blogging can encourage young people to trust that their written words have power and that expressing themselves through written storytelling can transform themselves and our communities. Dana Edell:...
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39th ELT Blog Carnival – Blogging with students
Photo by Enokson on Flickr.com Welcome to the February edition of the ELT Blog Carnival. I would first like to thank my fellow teachers and bloggers who contributed to this event. The topic of the blog...
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The LMS is dangerous for good teachers that aren’t also good pedagogues. It determines too much in advance by presenting an interface that asks the user to approach it in very particular ways. What’s...
View ArticleSynchronous Tools and How to Use them in Classroom or Dislocated – webinar...
The rise of web conferencing is evident. Web conference technologies provide a powerful tool for a wide range of activities. They offer an innovative framework for educational programs as well as...
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