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Inspire Learning Beyond Your Classroom Walls by Setting Up a Virtual Learning Community

Teacher Reboot Camp

More important than the learning that transpires in our classrooms is the learning we inspire beyond our classroom walls. One way to motivate students to continue using the knowledge acquired in our classes is to set up a virtual learning community.

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Transforming Classrooms into Thriving Learning Communities with an LMS! My #ISTE18 ItsLearning Keynote

Teacher Reboot Camp

This past week the incredible Alan November and I delivered mini keynotes for the Rethink Learning Summit hosted by ItsLearning. In the recording, you will first be blown away by Alan November ‘s keynote, which would motivate any teacher to see the powerful ways students learn with technology. I follow with my talk about transforming classrooms into thriving learning communities with a Learning Management System (LMS).

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Transforming Classrooms into Thriving Learning Communities with an LMS! My #ISTE18 ItsLearning Keynote

Teacher Reboot Camp

This past week the incredible Alan November and I delivered mini keynotes for the Rethink Learning Summit hosted by ItsLearning. In the recording, you will first be blown away by Alan November ‘s keynote, which would motivate any teacher to see the powerful ways students learn with technology. I follow with my talk about transforming classrooms into thriving learning communities with a Learning Management System (LMS).

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EdTech Acronyms Explained

EdTech4Beginners

BLearning – Blended Learning (using a range of multimedia and strategies). BYOL – Bring Your Own Learning. FL – Flipped Learning ( click here for my guide to flipping lessons ). LMS – Learning Management System (software that runs and manages educational programs). MLD – Mobile Learning Devices. MLearning – Mobile Learning. NGDLE – Next-generation Digital Learning Environment. PBL – Project Based Learning ( click here for my guide ).

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Creating an Online Classroom

Nik Peachey

The Nicenet Classroom Assistant is a really useful tool which enables teachers to very quickly and simply create their own virtual learning environment. Features The VLE it creates has a number of useful features. A messaging function which allows registered users to send personal or group messages to others registered on the VLE (this can be configured to forward messages on to email addresses if the user so chooses) A conferencing function. community social network VLE

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10 Tech Tools for Teacher Training Courses

Nik Peachey

I also wanted to use a form of loop input (using the technology to teach the technology) so that teachers were learning about the technologies they could use with students by actually using them for themselves. type learning tools I was introducing I wanted something more visual as a reminder, so I used SimplyBox. So as they were building examples of online learning they were also creating their own e-portfolio.

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Transforming Education with Virtual Labs and Immersive Learning

Kitaboo on EdTech

While virtual labs aren’t a completely new phenomenon and have been around for quite some time, the access to more advanced virtual learning environments (VLE) and industry-grade equipment have given a whole new meaning to this concept in an educational context. .

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Why do so many Moodle courses suck?

Nik Peachey

Moodle is a magnificent free product and has the potential to enable schools and teachers to build wonderfully unique interactive online learning courses in which learner interaction can be tracked, measured and responded to. Given the state of many of these courses, it’s no wonder that drop out rates for online learning are so high. Many of the other commercially available LMS (learning management systems) and VLE (virtual learning environment) platforms aren’t doing any better.

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A Flipped Classroom Approach: Tips from 3 Bett Speakers

ViewSonic Education

We’ve asked 3 Bett show speakers about their views on the tried-and-tested flipped classroom approach, which has been used to boost learning results from K-12 all the way through higher education for over 25 years. Before we get started, take a look at this video to learn a bit about the concept behind flipped classrooms and concerns they are meant to solve. Dr. Neelam Parmar; Teacher & Director of E-learning for Primary & Secondary Schools.