A Vitual Learning Community For Teacher IWB Professional Development

This post is Part 1 of my report for FLE Assignment 2 - Virtual Learning Environments. This has also been posted at The IWB Challenge Blog. Feedback is very welcome.

I decided to create the Interactive Whiteboard Challenge because I have been asked over the past couple of years to give quite a few workshops on [...]

A New Respect For Wikipedia - Serving The Internet

“Wikipedia? Fine, use it to look up a definition, but don’t do much else with it. No, Wikipedia cannot be your only reference. Yes, I get that there is a lot of information there, but that doesn’t mean it’s correct. You have to cross reference it. You have to have other sources!”

And so went the [...]

Social Objects for Professional Use

Well, I’ve not long ago been reading about social objects and have learned of Jyri Engestrom who founded Jaiku, a short messaging service similar to Twitter. For me, the concept of a ’social object’ is one thing that has really made me think so much more deeply and clearly about what is on the web [...]

A Virtual Learning Environment - The 2010 IWB Challenge

For the subject I am doing this semester, our second assignment is to create a virtual learning environment. So, I have created the:

This virtual learning environment has been built on a Wikispaces wiki and requires participants to have their own page on the wiki. The environment is based around participants contributing videos or screencasts of [...]

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