Dr. Shannon Doak

AUGUST 18, 2023

often dubbed the “social web,” which has opened up an incredible avenue for collaborative learning and knowledge sharing. can be a game-changer for teacher professional development, creating a dynamic and interconnected learning community. Fostering Learning Communities: Thanks to Web 2.0 Enter Web 2.0,

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Most importantly, true growth is about learning from people that don’t belong to the same culture as us — a truly eye-opening experience for students and teachers alike. Social media: platforms like Twitter help teachers build their personal learning network and share teaching tips and tricks.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

As a result, I’ve come up with fun ways to support learning while students power through the last few days of school. Their code can be copied into most blogs, wikis, and websites or used from the Wolfram-Alpha site. Copy the code and embed it into your website, blog, or wiki. You can also share it to most social media.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

a class internet start page–to curate websites, widgets, and other digital tools used for learning. a backchannel device–to assess student learning while it’s happening (with tools such as Socrative, Today’s Meet, or Google Apps). Make this dictionary tool easily accessible from any digital device being used.

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NeverEndingSearch

MAY 14, 2020

We need strategies for personalizing and enriching the remote learning experience. It is essential to translate practice in order to communicate with our stakeholders and to support and inspire learning. Whether or not we are planning for a virtual experience in September, it is clear that we need to translate our practice.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

One of my earliest jobs back in the 1980s was managing the educational technology and learning resources for several nurse education centres across the South West of England. He had read some of my previous papers, and was interested in seeing if we could take our ideas forward in the emerging area of social media and medical education.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

Here social media were used to connect people, enabling them to collaborate together in project work, small group learning and online discussions. One of the most popular activities on our wiki based learning programmes was called ‘goldmining’.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

It is titled Experiences in Self-Determined Learning and can be found at [link]. Self-determined learning or heutagogy is fast gaining interest from educators around the world interested in an evidence-based approach to learning. This edited book is the perfect primer on self-determined learning or heutagogy. The Basics.

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The 21st Century Principal

NOVEMBER 12, 2011

Use and understand social media platforms: Instead of giving in to fear and trying to find ways to limit access and use of social media platforms by educators, 21st century administrators need to be engaged heavily in the use of these platforms to both promote their educational organizations and to communicate with stakeholders.

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 24, 2012

Social media - often referred to as Web 2.0 , or the participatory Web - is shaping up to be one of the most important tool sets available to support the promotion of change in education. enables them to take more responsibility for their own learning. enables them to take more responsibility for their own learning.

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 16, 2017

Here's a brief reflection: In the 70s my time was spent learning my 'trade', exploring the new world that was opening up in the form of educational technology, and discovering the true power of computers for the first time. I began to experiment with microcomputers, finding ways to use them in support of learning. I learnt to program.

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 7, 2012

I recently blogged about the hidden audience effect , and cited Westfields Junior School's S'cool Internet Radio and David Mitchell's Quadblogging projects as examples of how students can become better engaged with learning when they perform their work for an audience. Prior to social media, how did they perform their skills for an audience?

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SpeechTechie

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

The Edublog Awards were started about 7 years ago to counteract the trend of blocking social media in school districts and celebrate the educational power of these resources. Obviously social media has been transformative for me and my practice and I wanted to participate for that reason again this year. Check it out!

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EdTechSandyK

JUNE 8, 2012

Down the Hall is produced by the External Programs and Learning Technologies (EPLT) department of the University of British Columbia. How important of a resource are various social media for doing this? Social media can be a very valuable source of information and professional development for educators.

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Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Here''s a few ideas for you to consider: 1) Lecturers can make sure they maintain dialogue with their students through participation in social media sites. 2) One popular social media site - Twitter - is a different proposition entirely. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s. But be careful.

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Bryan Alexander

JUNE 18, 2018

Second, we held an ideation exercise at the Emerging Learning Design conference hosted by Montclair State University. A group of thoughtful learning designers were corralled into a room and led through a design thinking process by this hairy maniac: We used versions of the questions from the February-March ideation week.

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Bryan Alexander

JUNE 18, 2018

Second, we held an ideation exercise at the Emerging Learning Design conference hosted by Montclair State University. A group of thoughtful learning designers were corralled into a room and led through a design thinking process by this hairy maniac: We used versions of the questions from the February-March ideation week.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 5, 2013

This is Part 5 in my series of posts on the future of learning and technology. There were sections on digital literacies and mobile learning, both of which we considered to be important for the success of education and learning in the future. Much more learning will be done outside of the classroom.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

These tasks are perfect for learning across the curriculum and especially for librarian-led learning. Claims on Social Media : Students consider the sources of a tweet and the information contained in it in order to describe what makes it both a useful and not useful source of information. What do other sources say?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

The Edublog Awards is a community-based initiative started in 2004 in response to community concerns relating to how schools, districts and educational institutions were blocking access of learner and teacher blog sites for educational purposes. How Does It Work?

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Educator Innovator

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Blogs, wikis, Skype, YouTube can be learners’ power tools, but their creative and pedagogical potential is only activated when learners get to think, work, create, and do for themselves. I was particularly drawn to the blog’s description: “One Student’s Mission to Explain the Benefits of Social Media in the Classroom.”

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The Daring Librarian

SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

Feel free to go to my Slideshare or wiki to download and adapt it for your school! Want to learn more about QR Codes? Note: I also took the opportunity on the newsletter to promote our new Edublog) The MHMS Daring School Library Media Center Says: YOU are Our Best Customer! Set the Stage: Have Parents Download the App!

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 3, 2016

Haiku Learning (my LMS). Haiku Learning is my Learning Management system. Haiku Learning is the tool I use to blend my classroom. Tip: To learn about my blended learning strategies, see my presentation on Slideshare Simple Steps to Blended Learning . If you use Keynote, learn how to use Magic Move.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 16, 2012

One is to benefit those learners worldwide who wish to learn from you and need to see your content. Secondly, it is so you can reap the exponential rewards the social web offers. In Giving it all away I showed how offering free online access to your ideas and works actually increases your audience size. Unported License.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 12, 2012

In today's 10Q interview, Helen answers questions about her philosophy on learning, social media and her current projects in higher education, including alternate reality games: Who are you? heloukee (online), Senior Lecturer in Interactive Media and Social Technologies at the University of Salford.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

I have the pleasure again this year of co-hosting the annual Edublog Awards, designed to promote the educational value of social media. community for "Best educational use of a social network" Classroom 2.0 The purpose of the Edublog awards is promote and demonstrate the educational values of these social media.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

Regardless of your districts approach, now is a time to facilitate the student centered learning that Project Based Learning makes possible. I have some powerful online interactive workshops and webinars that can be used to engage learning in this new environment. How do I facilitate PBL in blended learning environment?”.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

The excerpt below is from the book “Connected From the Start: Global Learning In the Primary Grades,” by Kathy Cassidy, published by Powerful Learning Press. Although learning from others is a key reason why I continue to connect my classroom online, there are many other reasons as well. Kids Often Learn Best From Other Kids.

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EdTechSandyK

JULY 25, 2010

How to Use New Media Tools in Your Classroom - Seven short videos from bloggers and contributors at Edutopia which give you tips on using Twitter, Facebook, wikis, digital cameras, YouTube, Nintendo Wii, and GPS devices in instruction. As much as I try to stay current in this area, I learned several new things in this story.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 5, 2013

This is Part 5 in my series of posts on the future of learning and technology. There were sections on digital literacies and mobile learning, both of which we considered to be important for the success of education and learning in the future. Much more learning will be done outside of the classroom.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 2, 2011

Now a regular event at several conferences each year, EduBloggerCon is an opportunity for those who are interested in the use of social media in education to gather in "unconference" style and share--the agenda gets set when we arrive together. CUE EduBloggerCon is on Wednesday, March 26th, from 4 - 8pm.

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mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows, introductory keynote speaker Top Must-Have for Our Students: Teen Health and Wellness: Real Life, Real Answers , the mobile app for 24/7 access by our students. The discussion of their very valuable (and well-attended) session "Empowering Students Through Self-Assessment" continues on a wiki.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

The primary goals of this event are to demonstrate the power of global connectivity in classrooms, schools, institutions of informal learning and universities around the world, and to introduce others to the tools, resources, projects, and networks that are available to educators today. A current listing of events you can join is below.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 3, 2012

Both activities were the brainchildren of the ever-imaginative David Warlick , who had suggested them in a wiki (that I think I helped ISTE set up) to get ideas for the conference. This year, I''m doing some re-branding of the activities in an attempt to make these events more accessible to ISTE attendees (and easier to describe).

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The Daring Librarian

DECEMBER 2, 2011

But what I get most from the Edublogs is an ever growing list of great new voices and views to add to my personal learning network. Best educational Ed Tech Wiki: The Mighty Little Librarian'' s Tech Tuesdays. The purpose of the Edublog awards is promote and demonstrate the educational values of these social media.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 2010

Below are this week''s public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org , the social learning network for education that I work on for Elluminate. Digital tools can be used to engage students, enhance learning and allow creativity and collaboration. How do you integrate technology into 21st century classrooms?

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The Daring Librarian

MARCH 21, 2010

Brenda Anderson Instructional Specialist Montgomery County Public Schools Kensington, MD Blog: Imagine, Innovate, Inspire: Piecing Together My Learning Journey Describe your previous work experiences and volunteerism with professional organizations which qualify you to serve as a SIGMS officer. I can create NINGs and wikis.

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