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Summer Online Learning Questions We’ve Gotten

Ask a Tech Teacher

The class is online through a class wiki (we’ll send you the Join Code). Q: I would love to attend but the dates don’t work for me. You can sign up and we’ll arrange 1:1 help in place of the GHOs. Q: Where is it held? You don’t mention travel or hotels. You participate from your computer, wherever that is.

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Summer Online Learning Questions We’ve Gotten

Ask a Tech Teacher

The class is online through a class wiki (we’ll send you the Join Code). You can sign up and we’ll arrange 1:1 help in place of the GHOs and TweetUps. Q: Where is it held? You don’t mention travel or hotels. You participate from your computer, wherever that is. The only set times will be the weekend GHOs or TweetUps.

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Silver Lining for Learning, Episode 05: Will Richardson

Dangerously Irrelevant

Freedom to Learn. Personal Learning Networks. Learning on the Blog. Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms. The future of learning [VIDEO]. 5 videos on connected learning from the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub [VIDEOS]. @willrich45 on Twitter. Happy reading!

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5 Practical tips for online teaching in times of disasters

Neo LMS

Read more: Adopting the asynchronous mindset for better online learning. There are many ways to communicate, both synchronous (chat, web conferencing), and asynchronous (online forums, wikis). Don’t overwhelm your students.

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Engaging online learners 1

Learning with 'e's

Let's start with collaborative online spaces. It relates to critical writing on wikis, but it can be applied to just about any collaborative online learning space: There is a spectrum of wiki activities that can be used to encourage critical thinking in writing. Wheeler, 2009, p 487) Continues in the next post.

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Engaging online learners 5

Learning with 'e's

And yet asynchronous modes of online learning can be as equally powerful as synchronous methods. Here are seven ways you can increase engagement in asynchronous online learning: 1. Interaction between students, and with their teacher, is vital to maintain engagement and also to create a learning community.

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The survival of higher education (3): The Social Web

Learning with 'e's

One of the most popular activities on our wiki based learning programmes was called ‘goldmining’. In this activity, each of the students took individual responsibility to seek out, evaluate and then post useful websites and online learning resources that were deemed indispensable to the group. Continues tomorrow.

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