[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 ‘ESL’
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 #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 [...]
Mobile Learning #7: mLearning & social networks
[Or: Two ways to integrate social networking into mLearning] What social networking sites do you use? Facebook? Twitter? Linked in? You Tube? If you are reading this blog, chances are that you use at least one or more of these sites on a regular basis. And what about where you access these sites from? Your [...]
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, [...]
