[or: What’s an Unconference?] No plenary speakers. No opening speech. No PowerPoint lectures. No panel discussions. No publisher exhibition. Sound like a conference? Hopefully not- it’s an Unconference! An unconference is a f2f event which is participant driven, and I had my first taste of one as a facilitator in Moscow last week. And what [...]
Posts Tagged ‘elearning’
Mobile Learning #10: Yes we scan
[Or: QR codes in the classroom] My last blog post was a Dummies Guide to QR codes, written for educators (like myself) who are new to these. This second post on QR codes looks at two practical teaching ideas, one using QR codes to generate text, and one using QR code to generate urls. Finally, [...]
Mobile learning #9: A Dummies Guide to QR codes
Wondering what the attractive geometric design on the left is? You’re not the only one. Until recently I had assumed that these designs were simple decoration. It turns out I’m not the only one who is unfamiliar with these so-called QR codes (Quick Response codes). A University of Bath study in 2008 found that only [...]
Mobile Learning #8: Five Top Tweets
As part of this week’s computer housekeeping, I’ve been going through my Twitter favourites of the past two weeks on the topic of mLearning. Below are five of the tweets I’ve found most interesting or useful. I’ve ordered them from tweets on more theoretical issues, to those with a more practical slant. Hope you find [...]
Four ways with webinars
[4 formats for running webinars] Have you ever attended an online seminar or ‘webinar’? If so, did it follow this pattern? introduction by moderator talk by presenter (with PowerPoint slides) question-and-answer time Chances are that it did. This is a common format for a webinar, and an example of the chalk and talk presentation style, [...]
