Getting Learning Out Of The Classroom Alongside Augmented Reality

For a spell straightaway I direct keep been expounding the wonders of augmented reality (See: Augmented Reality too Web 3.0) , thence I idea it was fourth dimension at concluding to hand some examples of how nosotros tin genuinely acquire students using this applied scientific discipline too to demo how it tin superimpose the Internet onto their physical world.

So hither are some teaching proffer which exploit 2 augmented reality type apps too gives students some reading, listening too speaking practice, equally good equally a fleck of exercise.

The apps yous bespeak for this action are both gratis too the start is 'Woices'.

Woices is a elementary vox recording app that yous tin utilisation on your mobile device to do too upload good files to the Internet. You tin also add together an icon to your good recordings. The wonderful affair nearly Woices though is that past times using GPS it understands where yous were when yous created the good file too 'attaches' it to that location, thence anyone who has the Woices app tin become to the location too honor the good file past times clicking on the 'Explore' icon on their app.

So it's a fleck similar leaving hidden good notes exactly about the globe that alone other Woices users tin find.

Here's how it works. 
First register on the Woices website too download the app for your mobile device.
When yous opened upwards the app it looks similar this. You exactly click on 'Record' to start speaking.

 When yous direct keep finished speaking click on 'Stop'. Then yous tin psyche too delete the recording (recordings are called 'echoes'), or if yous are happy alongside it, yous tin click on the small-scale bluish arrow on the correct too add together a championship too description equally good equally a photograph to your echo.

Then yous click on 'Send' to issue it to the mesh too this volition utilisation your phones GPS to attach it to the location where yous created the echo.

To honor 'echoes' which are relevant to your location, exactly click on the 'Explore' icon too yous volition acquire a listing of 'echoes' which direct keep been left unopen to your location.

The minute app is called Layar too Layar enables developers to do spider web based multimedia data (called 'layers')which tin alone move accessed whenever yous are unopen to specific locations.

Layar comes with  a issue of packs of layers too the ane that I desire to utilisation is the Wikipedia one. This layer enables users to honor entries inwards Wikipedia which relate specifically to places inwards their environment.

So wherever the user is standing when they  activate the app they volition acquire data which relates specifically to that place.

Here's how it works.
You bespeak to download the Layar app for your mobile device. Make certain that when yous opened upwards the app for the start time, yous enable the location tracking characteristic thence that Layar knows where yous are. Then become to the layers.

You'll honor the Wikipedia layer inwards the Education section. Click on it too thence click on 'Launch'.

When yous concur upwards your telephone too motion it exactly about slow yous should start to encounter the Wikipedia summaries appearing at the bottom of the screen.

At the move past times of the enshroud you'll also encounter a sort of 'radar' enshroud which shows yous where the interesting places are inwards relation to where yous are standing.

If yous click on the small-scale Wikipedia summary yous volition acquire 2 to a greater extent than icons.

One of these takes yous to the entry on Wikipedia for that location.

The other takes yous to a map, which volition demo yous how to acquire to the house from where yous standing.

So hither is how nosotros tin utilisation this to do motivating out of schoolhouse activities

• Ask your students to honor five interesting places exactly about their town using the Wikipedia layer. They should become to each house question it on Wikipedia  using the Layar app too thence tape a brusque good entry using Woices too add together a motion painting to it. (You tin banking firm represent their entries through the Woices spider web based interface)
• You could brand a sort of treasure hunt too got to the places yourself too utilisation Woices to exit good clues nearly the side past times side house to visit, thence that students direct keep to psyche to your clue when they acquire to the location (by pressing the 'Explore' icon on the Woices app) too question the places exactly about them on Wikipedia to honor out where to become side past times side to honor the side past times side clue. You could acquire them to exit an good entry too icon at each house along the trail to essay out they direct keep been there.
• You could utilisation Woices to exit good notes at a gear upwards of locations too direct keep factual errors inwards the notes. Then your students would direct keep to view the places, press 'Explore' too honor the factual errors past times comparison your good alongside the Wikipedia entry for that place.
• Get students to do their ain good tours or treasure hunts for each other using Woices too the Wikipedia layer.

What I similar nearly augmented reality

• I intend it's swell that nosotros tin acquire students learning nearly their environs exterior of the classroom.
• Taking learning out of the classroom similar this gives students tools which they tin utilisation inwards their everyday life.

Things to move aware of

• Be careful of your students e-safety too brand certain they don't exit whatever data nearly their dwelling address or where they live.
• Make students aware of their digital 'footprint' thence that they utilisation social media responsibly.

I promise this shows at to the lowest degree a picayune of the potential of augmented reality apps on mobile devices. I intend at that topographic point is huge potential inwards these kinds of apps to educate location based experiential learning that tin acquire our students out too nearly exploring their environs too interacting alongside the globe exactly about them through the internet. I promise yous hand it a try.

Lastly, I'd similar to welcome Worth Ave Group equally a novel advertiser. 
 

Related links:

• Augmented Reality too Web 3.0
• Creating texting dialogues for students 
• Audioboo to Posterous 
• 3 Tools for exploring wifi during presentations 
• Questioning the purpose of applied scientific discipline inwards education 
• iPad apps for English linguistic communication language teachers 

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Instant Reckon Polls Inward The Classroom

For a long fourth dimension at nowadays I bring been looking for a tool that enables minute polling inward the classroom or inward the lecture room. I specifically wanted something that:

•  doesn't postulate registration (especially from the people I'm polling)
• updates rattling quickly
• works on whatever platform from computers to mobile devices

It looks similar I bring lastly constitute what I've been looking for together with best of all it's free. The tool that I bring constitute is Mentimeter together with it does all of the above.

• Here's an instance of a poll I created where you lot tin add together your vote: http://vot.rs/d6dbde 
• Here is a link to the results http://mentimeter.com/public/5dc1bf7d6eeb (if you lot are ane of the starting fourth dimension to read this article at that spot may non live many results yet).

Creating the poll was actually quick together with slowly I only went to http://mentimeter.com together with typed inward my question, thence I clicked on 'Create Question',

I thence entered my selection of answer choices, chose a subject together with clicked on 'Save together with Start Presenting'.

The poll is thence produce to use. There are a number of ways of sharing it.

You tin become a URL alongside a code to limit entry or to become inward quick together with slowly to part inward presentations (Here's ane on the flipped classroom. The URL is ever http://vot.rs/ thence you lot bring a specific code for the poll, which inward this instance is 23512 ) anyone alongside this code tin thence vote. By all agency laissez passer it a try.

You tin click on part later you lot produce your poll together with become a similar a shot spider web link which you lot tin part through social media, such every bit Twitter or Facebook etc.

By clicking on 'Share' on your poll page you lot tin also become an embed code or a link to to a world results page. I've embded the poll below to demonstrate you lot how it looks.


So what's thence dandy nigh creating alive polls?

• Well they are dandy if you lot are lecturing or presenting at a conference alongside a wireless network every bit you lot tin become minute feedback together with responses that everyone tin part inward together with thence involve to a greater extent than people.
• You tin role them inward cast every bit a quick essay to run across if students bring understood your material.
• You tin become students to produce them together with essay each other.
• You tin role them for consider polls inward class, both earlier together with later discussions to run across if at that spot is whatever shift inward opinion.
• The responses are anonymous, thence it's a skillful tool to role to become honest feedback if you lot are doing activeness enquiry inward class, specially if it is related to a sensitive issue, such every bit your ain teaching mode or methods.

What's non to like?

• Well at that spot isn't much I tin tell that I don't similar nigh this tool.
• I'd similar to bring polls alongside to a greater extent than than ane query though.
• You bring to live careful nigh using polls similar this on mobile phones if your students are having to pay a connecter charge, thence it actually helps to live able to become them on the wireless network if you lot are using it inward class.

I promise you lot uncovering http://mentimeter.com useful together with savour using it alongside your students.


Related links:

• 10 Tools for Increasing Engagement inward Online Courses  
• 3 Tools for Exploiting the Wifi During Presentations  
• Questioning the Role of Technology inward Education  
• iPad Apps for English linguistic communication Language Teachers  
• Technology tin sometimes live wasted on English linguistic communication language teaching

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Nik Peachey

Developing Your Digital Report Skills

Making the motion from our prophylactic as well as trusted traditional literacy habits to newer digital skills tin hand notice last quite a challenge, but every bit teachers I intend nosotros are actually unlikely to last able to purpose technology scientific discipline as well as aid our students purpose technology scientific discipline actually effectively unless nosotros are prepared to appear upwards this challenge. Technology needs to last to a greater extent than than business office of the agency nosotros instruct but it also has to last business office of the agency nosotros ourselves come about to larn as well as business office of our everyday professional person practice.

Scrible is i tool that has been helping me to brand this footstep away from my newspaper as well as pencil written report habits as well as towards a to a greater extent than efficient as well as digital agency of learning.

Scrible enables me to supersede my highlighter, viscid notes as well as coloured pens as well as to travel alongside similar tools conduct on the reckoner screen.

As an information addict, I pass quite a lot of my fourth dimension scanning through blogs as well as mag articles virtually educational technology scientific discipline as well as linguistic communication learning as well as trying to hold rail of useful quotes as well as information from around the web. Recently I convey started using Scrible to aid me do this.

Scrible is a uncomplicated browser plugin that I tin hand notice activate whenever I honour something interesting online. The plugin opens a toolbar which enables me to annotate as well as grade upwards webpages alongside different coloring highlighters, viscid notes as well as alter the coloring of the text.

But is tin hand notice do to a greater extent than than this, because it also enables me to salvage the articles as well as webpages I convey commented on, along alongside my my annotations into a library as well as then that I tin hand notice come upwards dorsum as well as honour them later.

Once I convey saved the annotated pages I tin hand notice also portion them alongside others past times creating a uncomplicated link. These links tin hand notice last either every bit ‘read only’ (the students tin hand notice run across my annotations but non alter them) or every bit ‘editable’ pages (students  tin hand notice run across my annotations as well as also add together their own) that I tin hand notice come about collaboratively.

• Here's a curt video showing how Scrible works

For me this is a slap-up written report assist as well as actually ensures that I tin hand notice acquire back, honour as well as review all the articles I’ve studied.

How to purpose Scrible EFL / ESL students
We tin hand notice acquire our students to use Scrible inwards the same agency that nosotros would to written report an online text, though nosotros tin hand notice also purpose it to focus them on linguistic communication evolution too. Here are some suggestions.

• Get students to position as well as alter the coloring of all collocations. They tin hand notice purpose different colours for different types.
• Use the viscid notes to laid upwards reading tasks as well as comprehension questions as well as acquire students to highlight the business office of the text where they honour the answer.
• Get students to read a text as well as post viscid banker's complaint questions virtually it for y'all to answer.
• Get students to coloring code different parts of speech communication inside the text.
• get students to coloring highlight different verb structures. They could also travel out viscid notes proverb what the construction is or what purpose of the construction is beingness demonstrated.
• Get students to purpose viscid notes to define words from the text.

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 What I’m non as well as then certain about

• The toolbar tin hand notice last a piddling fleck fiddly sometimes as well as it’s hard to attach viscid notes to specific areas of images.

On the whole I actually like Scrible as well as convey institute it actually useful to aid me motion away from pen as well as newspaper inwards a agency that makes much to a greater extent than feel every bit most of my studying is done online using digital resources.

I promise y'all hand it a endeavor too.

Related links:

• 10 Teacher Development Task for Web 2.0 Tools
• Creating a personal homepage
• Social Networks as well as the Web 2.0 Revolution
• Create your ain social network vii steps
• A Tick List of 21st Century Digital Skills for Teachers  

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Nik Peachey

How Ane Role Social Media For My Professional Person Development

This has been a mutual theme to many of the presentations, workshops, webinars together with seminars that I guide maintain been asked to create over the in conclusion few years, but nonetheless many times I attempt to introduce on this discipline I never actually experience that I acquire the message across every bit clearly together with persuasively every bit I would like.

The upshot of how nosotros occupation social media for our ain evolution every bit teachers together with every bit digitally skilled individuals, is i that I believe is of vital importance though, non merely because it tin enable us to proceed developing every bit teachers through the content, ideas, resources together with to a higher identify all people it gives us access to, but also because the agency occupation digital media for our ain evolution should guide together with influence the agency nosotros occupation it amongst our students together with gear upward their digital literacies together with communication skills.

So hither it is. This my ain endeavour to outline my digital media learning experience, or at to the lowest degree business office of it.

I’ll dissever this into iii sections which I’ll call

• Information inwards - This is how together with where I honour information
• Information processing - This is how I process, engage amongst together with capture information
• Information out - This is how I portion what I’ve learned or discovered

Information in

One of my favourite together with most useful sources of information is Diigo. What I especially similar close Diigo is the groups. As yous tin run into hither I’m a fellow member of quite a few groups.

• My Diigo Groups

The matter that I actually similar close the groups is that each grouping is laid to shipping me a daily digest of whatever links shared inside that group, thus looking through these electronic mail digests is commonly i of the firstly things I create at the firstly of each working day. These groups guide maintain actually provided a really rich source of professional person evolution for me together with most of the interesting articles I read originate from here.

I also guide maintain a attain of RSS readers for my dissimilar devices together with these proceed me upward to appointment on the blogs together with journals I follow. I’ve been using Netvibes for quite some for this, but on my mobile devices I also occupation Flipboard for to a greater extent than full general information together with Zite for to a greater extent than professional person things. This video shows how Zite works.

Both these are really slow to browse when I guide maintain a minute spare together with guide maintain bully integration amongst both Twitter together with Facebook.

• My Netvibes Feeds

Apart from those I also occupation Tweet Deck to follow specific topics on Twitter. I guide maintain it laid upward thus that I tin monitor the most useful hashtag related streams when e'er I guide maintain some downwards time.

Information processing

It’s actually slow to pass a lot of fourth dimension sorting through information together with links to articles, exclusively to uncovering a few weeks later on that yous tin neither retrieve or honour anything yous looked at, thus i occupation a whole attain of tools to brand sure I capture together with endeavour to digest all this information.
I’ve had a Delicious job organisation human relationship for years straight off together with I configured it thus that anything I posted to Twitter also automatically went into that account. However after a piece i flora that I wasn’t actually going dorsum at that topographic point together with when I din’t honour it a really useful identify to search through, though this has changed a chip since the introduction of Stacks (collections of bookmarks that guide maintain a to a greater extent than visual user interface)

• My Delicious Account

For a piece I used a bully visual bookmarking tool called SimplyBox, but unfortunately that disappeared, thus I was left to resort through all my link at that topographic point together with honour meliorate solutions (never a bed thing). My solution has been to spread things out a little.

I’ve been collecting a lot of infographics of late together with I honour the Pinterest is the ideal tool for these. It’s slow to collect together with salvage them using the browser bookmarklet together with they display good when I desire to search through together with honour the ones I need.

• My infographic Collection 

I’ve also flora that Pinterest is bully for collecting YouTube videos together with this has been a bully agency to access the videos when I demand them.

Though sadly, although Pinterest grabs YouTube videos good it struggles amongst other spider web based video embeds, thus I mightiness guide maintain to hold off for something meliorate for that.

• My video collection

For a long fourth dimension I had all my links to useful spider web tools together with resources stored inwards boxes on SimplyBox together with it has taken a piece for me to honour a replacement for this. I guide maintain tried publishing my favourite tools for learners using a Scoop.it site.

• My Tools for Learners

 Although this is a overnice agency to portion the tools it isn’t thus handy when I come upward dorsum to honour them again. The answer to my job came a few weeks agone when I discovered Meaki.

This looks similar to Pinterest, but it grabs a visual of the entire spider web page instead of merely i icon from it together with the agency the stored links tin travel accessed is much to a greater extent than user friendly for me, thus I’ve been busy shifting links from my quondam boxes into this novel site. So hither are some examples (more to come upward soon)

• Tools for exploiting video
• Tools for developing vocabulary
• Tools for developing writing skillsTools for developing reading skills
• Tools for developing digital narrative
• Tools for creating infographics

This procedure of curation (sifting together with organising links to useful content) may seem a fiddling fourth dimension consuming, but it doesn’t guide maintain to be. Once the initial sites are laid up, yous tin merely use  whatever brusque bursts of v or 10 minutes either at the start or terminate of the solar daytime or betwixt lesson or other tasks. Let’s human face it many of us honour fourth dimension for facebook inwards those brusque moments thus why non something to a greater extent than productive?

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Of course of teaching the most of import business office of processing all this information together with making occupation of it is to pose it into exercise inwards my teaching, preparation together with really importantly my writing. Trying to synergise all this information, brand feel of it together with formulate it into a rational strategy for moving my evolution forrad is something I couldn’t create without blogging. The deed of writing something downwards together with organising it into a rational readable text on a spider web log to travel published for others inwards your profession to run into tin actually assist yous to focus on together with human face upward your ain ideas together with beliefs together with many postings that I guide maintain started to write guide maintain ended upward inwards the rubbish purely because the deed of putting those ideas into text convinced me that was where they belonged.

So having been through this procedure or collection, analysis, curation together with reformulation the terminal pace is to start to portion those ideas.

Information out

Sharing is a actually of import business office of the process. It’s of import because if yous create  something of value that tin assist yous develop it tin in all likelihood assist others develop too. It’s also of import because yous tin acquire some feedback from other teachers, mayhap fifty-fifty a fiddling encouragement together with appreciation together with start to grow your network.

My primary tools for sharing are firstly Scoop.it, every bit I mentioned earlier, which is where I store links to whatever interesting articles I find, together with also a few that I write. Scoop.it is a especially useful tool because it synchronises amongst other services such as

• My Facebook page
• My Twitter account 
• My Linkedin Account 
• My Tumblr blog

The Tumblr site, is something I’ve exclusively started using quite recently, together with exclusively actually to dorsum upward all those articles, thus that if Scoop.it disappears or decides to start charging large amounts of coin I haven’t completely lost everything.

• My Learning Technology Scoop.it

As I said Scoop.it posts direct through to Twitter, which I mentioned before is also a bully source of information in. I tend non to engage amongst people really much through Twitter though. For me it’s a bully agency to portion links to content together with honour links to content, but it’s non a bully platform for communication, thus I also guide maintain a Facebook page which I honour much to a greater extent than suitable for that.

Conclusion
So that’s it. My social network for professional person development. It does accept fourth dimension to gear upward up something similar this, but it tin grow organically merely past times registering on a few sites together with and then putting inwards v or 10 mins whenever yous guide maintain time. In the long run, that’s far to a greater extent than fourth dimension economical than going to a conference together with surely much cheaper, together with best of all the network yous develop is i that is absolutely specific to your ain needs, thus what could travel better.

I’ll destination amongst a give-and-take of advice. This procedure tin dice quite addictive, especially for the social attending it tin convey to you,  every bit yous start to accumulate hundreds or fifty-fifty thousands of followers, but don’t allow feeding this network accept over every bit the role of the process. Always attempt to retain your integrity together with focus on quality. Have high standards - If yous don’t honour anything useful or interesting to portion or write about, together with then guide maintain a solar daytime off, never portion something unless yous guide maintain truly learned something from it together with experience it has value.

I promise this is useful.

Related links:

• Developing your digital written report skills
• Temporary Bookmarking
• 10 Teacher Development Task for Web 2.0 Tools
• Creating a personal homepage
• Social Networks together with the Web 2.0 Revolution
• Create your ain social network seven steps
• A Tick List of 21st Century Digital Skills for Teachers 

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Online Instructor Evolution Plant Best - Xv Reasons Why

I've started this article amongst quite a bold statement, simply it's a determination that I possess got been coming to over the course of report of quite a few years now. I should actually set this into context though, equally most of the instructor preparation I practise deals amongst pedagogical preparation for the usage of applied scientific discipline as well as is most frequently delivered during intensive confront to confront sessions, normally amongst groups of teachers working inwards a figurer lab. Though, having said that, I practise soundless believe that many of the reasons I possess got listed below practise also apply to other kinds of to a greater extent than 'mainstream' instructor evolution too, peculiarly intensive courses.

So, hither are my xv reasons why I intend developing your didactics online tin survive to a greater extent than effective.

Learn piece y'all teach - This gives y'all the chance to examine things out amongst your ain classes working inwards your ain environs amongst your ain students. Often when nosotros possess got a confront to confront intensive course of report nosotros acquire out our familiar didactics environs as well as come upwards dorsum amongst lots of novel ideas alone to uncovering that inwards our everyday reality many of them don’t operate or create unforeseen problems that nosotros don’t know how to bargain with. Studying piece nosotros instruct tin laissez passer on us the fourth dimension to examine out novel ideas inwards our ain operate place, uncovering the obstacles as well as examine to accommodate them to our ain context.

Non competitive - Face to confront courses tin frequently acquire quite competitive as well as tend to favour people who are to a greater extent than confident as well as extrovert as well as who similar to shine. This tin frequently Pb to the quieter to a greater extent than reflective types existence overshadowed as well as non having the chance to contribute what may good survive valuable comment or enquire the questions for which they require answers. The text based as well as asynchronous nature of online preparation makes it much easier for everyone to possess got their say as well as tin Pb to a much richer as well as to a greater extent than collaborative learning experience.

Work at your ain computer - This sounds similar a real foreign advantage, simply preparation amongst applied scientific discipline on your ain figurer tin survive a huge advantage. Contrary to pop belief, computers practise tend to survive unique. The means ane figurer is ready as well as how it responds as well as the kinds of problems y'all run across tin survive real dissimilar from ane figurer to another. Nothing is ore frustrating than going on a course of report amongst a figurer that is ready to brand things tardily for y'all as well as and therefore returning to your ain figurer as well as finding that in that location are a whole dissimilar laid of problems that y'all don’t know how to solve. Training to usage applied scientific discipline amongst your students needs to include preparation to problem shoot the problems that y'all may possess got amongst your figurer as well as learning how to overcome these as well as laid your ain figurer upwards to run effectively inwards your ain working environment.

Experiential learning - The best means to larn most applied scientific discipline as well as online learning is to experience it for yourself. Being purpose of an online course of report gives y'all start mitt experience of existence an online learner as well as helps y'all to sympathise around of the challenges as well as obstacles your students volition confront when they usage applied scientific discipline to report online.

Develop digital literacies - Even if y'all aren’t doing an online course of report which is applied scientific discipline specific, y'all should soundless survive able to selection upwards a few novel techniques as well as develop around of your digital literacies yesteryear studying online. Again, a skilful online course of report volition possess got around chemical ingredient of digital literacy as well as report skills evolution built in. This should go around means towards helping y'all sympathise how your students are learning inwards the existent the world as well as the kinds of report skills they require to develop.

Digital networking literacies - This actually falls inside digital literacies, simply it is worth highlighting equally I experience that developing your digital networking skills has existent significance for your continuing development. If y'all tin larn how to ready supportive relationships amongst the other trainees on your course of report therefore that y'all tin retain these contacts equally a network subsequently y'all complete the course of report as well as therefore y'all tin set these networking skills to skilful usage inside the diverse opened upwards online communities as well as networks that be inside diverse social media platforms such equally Facebook as well as Twitter. Having an online learning network as well as knowing how best to operate inside that network tin assist to ensure that y'all tin guide your ain continuing evolution subsequently the course of report y'all are preparation on has finished.

Build international contacts - Online preparation frequently provides a much to a greater extent than international learning environs than the classroom as well as therefore this tin assist to broaden the learning experience equally in that location is a much wider make of experience to share. Finding out most how things are done inwards dissimilar countries as well as real dissimilar contexts to your ain tin survive real refreshing as well as enlightening as well as tin actually heighten the learning experience as well as the network edifice potential of the course.

Differentiated learning - As a trainer when y'all run across a grouping of teachers confront to face, it takes fourth dimension as well as essay to take in them equally individuals amongst private needs as well as interests. As an online trainer this experience is reversed, y'all are constantly dealing as well as communicating amongst each fellow member of the grouping equally an private as well as this enables y'all to to a greater extent than speedily assess their needs equally individuals as well as accommodate the learning to suit them.

One to ane time - Following on from the previous point, almost all tutor - educatee fourth dimension inwards online courses is ane to ane rather than whole group, therefore ane time again it is easier to ensure that equally a trainee y'all acquire the attending y'all require from your tutor.

Personality types - For shyer less confident students online leaning tin operate to their wages because contributing inwards text tin survive much less threatening than doing it orally. You also possess got to a greater extent than fourth dimension to consider your contributions to the grouping as well as tin edit as well as re-edit them to survive certain that y'all limited yourself clearly.

Longer catamenia of study - Learning something good actually takes time. Online preparation tin frequently possess got house over a much longer catamenia of fourth dimension than most confront to confront courses can. This keeps y'all supported as well as engaged inwards the learning procedure for a greater catamenia as well as therefore allows to a greater extent than fourth dimension for development.

Your learning journey - Because the interactions inside an online course of report are digital, they are recorded as well as captured therefore y'all possess got the chance to go dorsum as well as retrace as well as review your entire learning journey. This greatly increases the chances of a deeper learning experience as well as greater retentiveness of what y'all possess got learned.

Time for reflection - Online preparation allows to a greater extent than fourth dimension for reflection as well as skilful online learning structures inwards this reflection, therefore that y'all non alone reverberate on your learning procedure simply possess got fourth dimension to verbalize over as well as portion your reflections as well as portion inwards the reflections of other teachers

Flexibility - You tin report at times that are convenient for y'all as well as for fourth dimension periods that suit your learning concentration span. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 lot of classroom preparation fourth dimension frequently turns into dead time, because the length of lessons are dictated yesteryear administrative convenience rather than pedagogical wages as well as trainers as well as trainees are frequently left pushing their means through materials long subsequently their optimum concentration catamenia has been exceeded. When y'all report online y'all tin possess got a pause whenever as well as withal frequently y'all experience like. This gives y'all fourth dimension to ponder what y'all possess got learned or motion on to novel materials at your ain measuring as well as usage your fourth dimension to a greater extent than efficiently.

Lower cost - The costs, non alone of courses simply also of travel, accommodation as well as fourth dimension off operate are frequently vastly reduced when y'all possess got an online course of report rather than a confront to confront course.

So those are my xv reasons. Feel gratuitous to add together whatever of your ain inwards the comments section.

Related links:

• 10 Lesson inwards Digital Literacy
• Digital Video - Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Manual for Language Teachers 
• Learning Technology News portal
• Web Tools for Learners
• Author of the Month

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Two Contrasting Views Of Educational Technology

I’d similar to part a span of videos alongside you lot that I accept used late inwards the courses I teach. I notice these videos specially interesting because they present such contrasting approaches to learning together with inwards detail - for desire of a amend news - elearning.

This starting fourth dimension 1 is from the early on 1950’s together with is nigh something called a ‘teaching machine’ which was created past times behavioural psychologist B F Skinner.


As you lot encounter Skinner’s teaching machines, though non just iPads do await remarkably like  what nosotros would recognise equally computers. What’s too remarkable is the claims that he makes for them together with the reasons why he believes they are effective are remarkably similar to those made past times many producers of learning together with especially linguistic communication learning software today.

However, despite the extremely logical reasoning that Skinner expounds I’m certain if you lot were invited to sit down downwards together with job 1 of these machines for a menstruation of fourth dimension it wouldn’t concur your involvement for real long together with similar me you lot likely spotter those difficult working children alongside a feel of pity.

Of course of report it’s tardily to await at videos similar this alongside the payoff of hindsight together with alongside a shinny iPad sitting closed past times together with wonder at how they could e'er accept believed these machines would endure effective, but if nosotros await closely at quite a lot of elearning beingness produced these days, it isn’t long earlier nosotros realise how similar inwards many ways it is to the sort of learning materials used on Skinner’s teaching machines. Gapfills, Multiple Choice Questions, True faux Questions, etc. but alongside some multimedia rolled inwards withal appear to endure the mainstay of much calculator based instruction together with fifty-fifty mobile apps, thus I’m non surprised to notice that many of the teachers who come upward onto the courses I instruct desire to know how to job together with arrive at these kinds of materials together with to endure honest I tin encounter that they do accept their place, but I mean value nosotros should endure aiming to do thus much to a greater extent than than that alongside the materials nosotros produce.

Here’s the contrasting video that I similar to use.


This clearly shows a completely dissimilar approach to the job of applied scientific discipline together with for me a much to a greater extent than powerful one. It shifts the job of the calculator from beingness a storage identify for predefined information together with transforms it into a conduit past times which noesis is shared together with constructed through the interaction betwixt people. I mean value this facial expression of calculator based learning is the 1 that most critics of educational applied scientific discipline most oftentimes neglect to see, unfortunately it’s too this facial expression together with job of the calculator that is most oftentimes feared together with blocked past times educational institutions roughly the globe, together with ironically enough, past times governments wishing to suppress the rights of their citizens.

These videos together with the methods of didactics demonstrated inside them too highlight another of import points.

In the starting fourth dimension video noesis is clearly seen equally residing inwards the materials of the institution. The students accept no business office inwards the creation of the content nor do they accept the adventure to enquiry the validity together with accuracy of the content together with the job of the students is merely to larn together with recall the content.

They sit down inwards rows obediently working difficult alongside no communication betwixt them together with no give-and-take sharing or collaboration of what they learning.

The minute of the videos is almost the contrary of this. The classroom together with fifty-fifty the schoolhouse has acquire almost unnecessary. The pupil creates together with negotiates noesis through interaction alongside multiple sources of information together with using multiple channels of communication. The pupil acts independently together with plant autonomously much of the time.

In a fourth dimension when critical thinking, inventiveness together with the mightiness to evaluate together with cope information accept acquire thus important, it’s clear to encounter which sort of pupil nosotros should endure creating inside our schools together with the means nosotros pattern together with apply out learning tasks together with materials volition endure a telephone commutation constituent inwards this.

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It’s truthful that the pupil inwards the minute video isn’t a linguistic communication student, together with developing linguistic mightiness is nigh to a greater extent than than finding together with applying knowledge, it too has to do alongside skills together with the exercise together with evolution of those skills, but what amend means to do this than from the kinds of authentic network edifice together with noesis edifice tasks that tin help our students acquire life long learners of far to a greater extent than than language?

The terminal affair that strikes me nigh these 2 videos is how they reverberate the kinds of societies that the organisation of didactics seeks to create. For me the starting fourth dimension is a club of obedient unquestioning worker drones beingness spoon fed information that volition enable them to fulfil their predefined roles. The minute is a club inwards which individuals are encouraged to think, human activity together with explore, to enquiry together with to create. I know which I would prefer to alive in.

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Mobile Learning Inwards Elt: Survey 2013

In 2010, later buying my start iPad I decided to create about enquiry into how teachers were using mobile devices inward their classrooms in addition to their teaching. At this phase ‘smart’ phones were already starting to brand an deport upon in addition to tablet devices were simply coming onto the market.  The enquiry results from this start survey were published inward the Guardian Online nether the championship ‘English linguistic communication teachers connect to mobile learning’ http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/sep/14/teachers-mobile-learning in addition to the consummate results in addition to study tin move downloaded from: http://technogogy.org.uk/mobile_survey.pdf

I followed this enquiry upward inward 2011 using the same survey questions inward an endeavour to run across how things had advanced alongside the intervening menses in addition to the results from that survey were  published inward May 2011 on the DELTA Publishing weblog nether the championship ‘mLearing in addition to ELT: Are We Mobile Ready?’ http://www.deltapublishing.co.uk/development/mlearing-and-elt-are-we-mobile-ready

One of the primary observations from this survey was that many teachers were inward fact create in addition to willing to screen mobile learning in addition to mobile devices, but that publishers seemed to move to a greater extent than reluctantly lagging behind.

Over the final eighteen months since publishing the 2011 survey results, mobile learning seems to accept made its means into the primary flow of discourse environs the implementation of educational engineering inward our schools in addition to universities, in addition to then I accept decided ane time again, cheers to the back upward of the Bell Educational Services Teacher Training department,  to launch a to a greater extent than extensive survey edifice on the master copy ane to examine to discovery the extent to which the ‘talk’ almost mobile learning has had whatsoever genuine deport upon in addition to realisation inward our schools in addition to classrooms over the by 3 to 4 years.

Whether you lot role technology, mobile learning or avoid it delight discovery fourth dimension to respond these xx questions in addition to percentage your ideas, opinions in addition to reflections in addition to I volition ane time over again issue the results for all to share.

• Mobile Learning inward ELT 2013 Survey

Many cheers for your tending in addition to participation.

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Mix Images Together With Animation On Your Mobile

A couplet of years dorsum I wrote virtually a actually squeamish spider web based tool called Xtranormal together with since therefore I've heard from therefore many teachers maxim how useful their students direct maintain works life it, therefore I was delighted yesterday to uncovering that the same makes had instantly produced a gratuitous mobile / tablet app called Tellagami. The app runs on a mobile device together with allows users to add together animated speaking characters to a alternative of backgrounds or to the users' ain images. You tin therefore either role text to spoken language to write a script for the character, or you lot tin tape your ain vocalism together with the app volition lip-synch you lot text to the character. This is real quick together with slow to do. Here's how.

Open the app an click on create.

Then direct your background, either from the ones provided, from your ain paradigm library or you lot tin accept a photograph of wherever you lot are at the time.

Then you lot tin direct the grapheme you lot desire to role together with customise their appearance.

Next you lot tin select an emotion for your character.

Lastly, you lot tin either type inwards your message or tape it direct onto your device. You tin tape upwards to thirty seconds of spoken audio.

Once you lot animation is consummate you lot tin either shipping it yesteryear email, portion it through diverse social networks or merely salvage it onto your device to demo it inwards class.

 You tin consummate the whole procedure inwards merely a couplet of minutes.

I intend this is a dandy app to become students speaking either inwards the classroom, at habitation or piece they are out together with virtually inwards the world.

Some learning activities for students

• Ask the students to create four - five animated images explaining their road to school.
• Get students to create animated images of four - five of their favourite places merely about their town.
• Get students to accept pictures of objects together with create an animated video dictionary.
• Get students to verbalize virtually images of people inwards their family.
• Create some animated images of dissimilar steps inwards a procedure (making coffee, tea etc) together with therefore become the students to sentry together with pose them inwards the right order.
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• Get students to create an animated paradigm periodical yesteryear adding 1 novel paradigm each day.
• Get students to accept pictures of their favourite mass covers or cinema posters together with therefore tape a review.
• Get students to create animated video cards on exceptional occasions.

 I'm certain at that spot are lots to a greater extent than activities you lot tin intend of.

What I similar virtually Tellagami

• It's gratuitous together with real slow to use.
• It encourages students to speak.
• It tin last used effectively exterior the classroom.
• Students tin role it to push clit some aspects of their ain life together with sense into the classroom.
• It produces real professional person looking results.

Possible problems

• At introduce it's exclusively available for iPhone / iPad therefore that limits who tin role it.

 So if your students direct maintain iPads / iPhones together with you lot emmet to laissez passer them motivating speaking assignments for homework, Tellagami is a dandy tool to role for the job.

I promise you lot uncovering it useful.

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Nik Peachey

Criteria For Evaluating Spider Web Tools As Well As Apps

I'm ofttimes getting asked what my criteria are for choosing the tools, apps as well as resources that I characteristic on my blogs as well as inward my pedagogy as well as produce endure honest I don't actually intend nearly it that much. I await at as well as thus many sites as well as apps that I only become a feeling when I encounter something that I intend volition work.

As that isn't a real satisfactory answer to hand people I decided to start exploring my ain criteria for what influences my choice. I ran a workshop on this topic at IATEFL 2013 on looking at apps as well as how nosotros tin evaluate them.


I came upward alongside a break of 'first impression' criteria that I intend I apply earlier fifty-fifty thinking nearly 'how' I volition role the app / tool.

Here is the presentation / workshop recording



You tin download a re-create of the presentation from here: Evaluating Web-based Tools

Please experience costless to browse the listing as well as add together whatever 'pros' as well as 'cons' for anything you lot intend I've missed.


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I promise you lot discovery these criteria useful every bit a starting signal for your ain reflections on why you lot conduct to role sure enough apps as well as non others.

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Nik Peachey

What Are The Qualities Of A Expert Educational Technology Scientific Discipline Trainer?

Whilst inwards the procedure of designing a unit of measurement of online learning I started thinking almost the qualities as well as skills that a skilful educational engineering trainer should have. After thinking of a few myself I decided to depict on the wisdom of my PLN as well as crowd-source a few to a greater extent than ideas.

Please experience gratis to add together your ideas as well as to re-create whatever of the ones you lot detect here. I'd also similar you lot to selectively vote for the ones you lot intend are most important. You tin also add together unopen to pros as well as cons to nation why. You tin add together your ideas as well as comments without registering.



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Thank you lot for your aid as well as participation. I promise you lot detect this listing useful.

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Nik Peachey

Create Online Learning Amongst 123Contactform

123ContactForm may non audio similar the sort of tool that would last of involvement to educators, but equally I discovered when they asked me to review their online shape creation tool, they offering quite a attain of features that tin flaming solve many of the problems nosotros cause got equally 21st century teachers.

We tin flaming utilisation it to:

• Create surveys to make inquiry together with activity research
• We tin flaming create interactive materials based around multimedia objects
• We tin flaming even out utilisation it to sell our materials or services online together with accept payments

The tool itself is browser based together with thus doesn't require whatsoever downloading or installation together with that inwards itself tin flaming salve a lot of hassle if you lot piece of occupation inwards an establishment that has really restrictive practices regarding the installation of software.

To acquire started you lot but demand to acquire to the site together with register at: http://www.123contactform.com/education-forms.htm

Once you lot cause got registered you lot acquire access to the dashboard together with this is where you lot tin flaming start creating your forms. You but demand to click on 'Create New Form'.

You volition together with thus acquire a selection of dissimilar types of shape to create. It's a proficient thought to click on 'Other Forms' this takes you lot to the online educator forms.   If you lot cause got a hold off at some of the templates together with educator forms that cause got already been created it volition hand you lot some thought of what the platform tin flaming do. There is an Education department amongst some create made templates in.

When you lot are create to create your ain educator forms, you lot could start past times clicking on 'Blank Form'. Call your shape 'My starting fourth dimension activity' together with and thus salve it together with hold off at the dissimilar types of interactions you lot tin flaming create.

You volition run across the basic interactions you lot tin flaming add together to the page. Clicking on them volition add together the interaction type to the page.

Then when you lot click on the interaction type you lot tin flaming edit its features.

Some of the advanced interaction types are especially interesting, especially the html characteristic which enables you lot to embed interactive media objects such equally videos or digital books into your forms together with and thus construct interactive activities around them.

You tin flaming also add together social buttons to enable users to part your activities through social media channels. 123ContactForm does also cause got a Facebook app thus i time your activities are consummate you lot tin flaming post them straight into Facebook pages or groups for users to make from there.

This video shows you lot how to utilisation all the master copy features of the forms.


Once you lot cause got created your activities they are saved inwards the 'My Forms' department of the site together with you lot tin flaming acquire at that topographic point to edit them. Here you lot tin flaming acquire the code to pose out your educator forms into your bog website or CMS, or acquire a link to electronic mail out to students.

You tin flaming also banking concern fit to run across who has submitted answers to the questions together with run across the tape of what answers cause got been given inwards the 'Reports' section. This is i of the best features of the site equally it turns it into a shape of LMS (learning administration system) where you lot tin flaming collect together with analyse students responses together with generate graphs of the results.

The site also permit users to add together together with customise the topic of the forms, thus if you lot desire them to blend into your site or blog, together with thus customising the hold off together with experience of the forms is quite tardily together with you lot tin flaming fifty-fifty add together your ain logo.

This video shows you lot how to customise your form.


So how tin flaming nosotros utilisation this amongst EFL / ESL students?

• We tin flaming create activity inquiry forms together with acquire detailed together with anonymous feedback on our teaching
• We tin flaming create multimedia materials for learning or assessment together with rail our students responses. This is especially useful if nosotros a creating homework assignments together with nosotros demand to assess these together with know that our students cause got done them.
• We tin flaming create learning objects to embed into online courses that rail together with assess students' performance.
• We tin flaming brand fun engaging quizzes based around images.

As ELT professionals

• We tin flaming utilisation the forms to create surveys for research.
• We tin flaming start selling materials, self published books, or private online classes together with collect payment inwards a rubber together with secure way.

What I similar nearly 123ContactForm

• It's a really versatile platform together with actually does enable a lot to a greater extent than than the yell suggests. In fact it's a pretty audio agency to create online learning materials amongst a built inwards LMS.
• It's a bully tool for freelancers who desire to start making coin online past times selling their ain products together with services inwards a user friendly way.
• It runs inwards the browser together with is pretty uncomplicated to use.
• It's tardily to make something that looks really professional.
• I've said it already, but the tracking capabilities are great.
• The fellowship runs on a freemium model, thus although it is a gratuitous service, at that topographic point is also a delineate of piece of occupation concern model at that topographic point to back upwards the site thus it's less probable to of a precipitous disappear or fold.

What I'm non thus certain about

• As I said the fellowship runs on a freemium model, thus many of the best features are the ones they accuse for.
• On the gratuitous subscription you lot tin flaming create five forms together with collect upwards to 100 students' responses each calendar month which is likely plenty for the private instructor to utilisation it amongst a class, but it would last dainty to cause got a few to a greater extent than of the premium features available to the Free subscriber, such equally the html embed to enable the utilisation of video together with multimedia inwards the activities.
• You cause got to last on the Platinum delineate of piece of occupation concern human relationship to last able to enable payments together with that costs $29.95 per month, which for a fellowship or schoolhouse is non much, but for a instructor / freelancer who wants to exam the waters amongst selling their ain products or services, it powerfulness seem similar quite a big opportunity when they are but getting started, but you lot tin flaming cancel your subscription if things don't acquire good together with 123ContactForm does offering a 30day coin dorsum guarantee. It's also worth mentioning that if you lot are a instructor or instructor trainer together with you lot brand it contact amongst the company, they are offering a 35% educational discount, thus that tin flaming assist to trim back the opportunity together with the cost.

On the whole I intend this is a actually proficient product, especially for a pocket-sized schoolhouse that wants to venture into online teaching or blended learning, together with thus a platinum delineate of piece of occupation concern human relationship at $29.95 per calendar month is quite a pocket-sized risk. For a instructor thinking of going freelance it powerfulness last a proficient choice if you lot are confident that you lot tin flaming brand plenty through online sales to justify the monthly outlay. As a instructor working inwards class, together with thus it's a dainty agency to acquire started amongst creating some online learning amongst a score of interactivity, but it would last much to a greater extent than attractive if the html embed functionality came equally portion of the gratuitous subscription.

123ContactForm has plenty of potential for the online educator or anyone wanting to create blended learning, thus it's good worth checking out, together with when I acquire my mass finished I may good last using it myself. I promise you lot discovery it useful too.

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Nik Peachey