I'm really buzzing at the moment, so to capture the moment I thought I'd write about it right now!
I don't know why, but tonight I am just excited! I have been trying something out for about two weeks now and it's like my mind has happily exploded with new ideas and thinking, just now, randomly!
What I decided to do a few weeks back was to use Padlet like an artist's blank canvas. I started collecting images and links that I really like and maybe writing some questions, all to do with personal growth and the future of eLearning; what I would like it to be and look like.
I did this with no real reason, just a space to place inspiring material for me to gaze at. I had no thought of what I was going to do with it all, just to simply reflect on this beautiful space from day to day. I didn't want to pressure myself into any creative task. Because I believe that is not the way to invoke and encourage creativity. Tonight, it helped me say; just because I don't draw, paint or play an instrument doesn't mean I'm not an artist. Work is in progress.
So now I have my picture, I should 'frame it' to complete it and make it real.
It's like this has made me a new kind of artist, all about learning!
EDIT: March 2026. Whatever I produced here sounds like a vision board which are powerful for creating goals.
Monday, 30 June 2014
Friday, 13 June 2014
A festival of sharing
A little bit from my experience yesterday at the Jisc Festival of Teaching and Learning! It was great to see lots of familiar faces again and to have a little catch up of what everyone has been doing.
My first session was alternative approaches to assessing and providing feedback. This was a really good session about using video, audio and visuals in general for assessment and feedback. It is something I already know about, but it did get me thinking again about it. The presenter said that there was no written evidence involved, just video feedback. I have used screencasts before to give feedback, but did provide a written part too. So I think I will capture more by video through creating activities and discussions. As I said to the group, through talking you can get deeper knowledge than just by written. Suppose it’s become a tradition in writing evidence when really it’s naturally around us. We just need to capture that. By the end of the session I said; written evidence has evolved into visual evidence. Assessment practices need to evolve.
My second session was The Green Trail. Again, I have seen this before with QR codes, but it was good see another way of using them. Plus I was curious of the environmental bit, as nature and the environment is important to me. It was a QR code trail that was linked to an induction booklet. It was a really good example. I suggested to the presenters on how they could promote this resource to teachers to evaluate their carbon footprint in the classroom, to encourage recycling and better use of a VLE to cut printing etc.
The third session I went to was teaching in adult and community learning. This was a good session about the presenter’s experience of teaching in this sector and their activities they do.
For my session in the tent, I talked about the Display, Engage and Participation model that I helped create. I had three people come along to this and we had a nice little chat about it. I saw this as a little trial as I will be doing a full presentation of it at two other upcoming events. I’m very proud of this model actually, it really is a good driver and thought provoking piece. I may talk about it more on here soon.
My first session was alternative approaches to assessing and providing feedback. This was a really good session about using video, audio and visuals in general for assessment and feedback. It is something I already know about, but it did get me thinking again about it. The presenter said that there was no written evidence involved, just video feedback. I have used screencasts before to give feedback, but did provide a written part too. So I think I will capture more by video through creating activities and discussions. As I said to the group, through talking you can get deeper knowledge than just by written. Suppose it’s become a tradition in writing evidence when really it’s naturally around us. We just need to capture that. By the end of the session I said; written evidence has evolved into visual evidence. Assessment practices need to evolve.
My second session was The Green Trail. Again, I have seen this before with QR codes, but it was good see another way of using them. Plus I was curious of the environmental bit, as nature and the environment is important to me. It was a QR code trail that was linked to an induction booklet. It was a really good example. I suggested to the presenters on how they could promote this resource to teachers to evaluate their carbon footprint in the classroom, to encourage recycling and better use of a VLE to cut printing etc.
The third session I went to was teaching in adult and community learning. This was a good session about the presenter’s experience of teaching in this sector and their activities they do.
For my session in the tent, I talked about the Display, Engage and Participation model that I helped create. I had three people come along to this and we had a nice little chat about it. I saw this as a little trial as I will be doing a full presentation of it at two other upcoming events. I’m very proud of this model actually, it really is a good driver and thought provoking piece. I may talk about it more on here soon.
Thursday, 22 May 2014
Flipped Instruction?
This afternoon we had one of our creative meetings, where we just share what we are doing in an informal way.
We had a chat about some developments we are making with learning design in an eLearning product and using presenters. It got me thinking. What if we flipped the instruction in an eLearning product?! In a reply I said, "what about flipping the instruction of the delivery in eLearning products"?
Basically, using a presenter like a real person or avatar that usually gives you instructions. But what about flipping this and allowing the learner to be the presenter. It would be like a role play situation, building on from my last post; Games, the main driver of learning? The learner is the presenter or character in the eLearning product. The learner is not sat there being a passive individual, which is the usual case. The learner is driving the eLearning product and achieving or collecting the learning objectives as they go through it.
I think this would be a great strategy to motivate, engage and get people involved when participating in eLearning products. There's not enough in them. Most are just commercial products that have little impact or meaning to users, just quick fix solutions. That is not quality eLearning.
I've got a great plan for developing highly interactive eLearning products that is going to be different. This is just one strategy that's in there that I am going to try.
This idea just came from a conversation. It just shows true evidence from meaningful conversations you can have that invokes ideas and development!
We had a chat about some developments we are making with learning design in an eLearning product and using presenters. It got me thinking. What if we flipped the instruction in an eLearning product?! In a reply I said, "what about flipping the instruction of the delivery in eLearning products"?
Basically, using a presenter like a real person or avatar that usually gives you instructions. But what about flipping this and allowing the learner to be the presenter. It would be like a role play situation, building on from my last post; Games, the main driver of learning? The learner is the presenter or character in the eLearning product. The learner is not sat there being a passive individual, which is the usual case. The learner is driving the eLearning product and achieving or collecting the learning objectives as they go through it.
I think this would be a great strategy to motivate, engage and get people involved when participating in eLearning products. There's not enough in them. Most are just commercial products that have little impact or meaning to users, just quick fix solutions. That is not quality eLearning.
I've got a great plan for developing highly interactive eLearning products that is going to be different. This is just one strategy that's in there that I am going to try.
This idea just came from a conversation. It just shows true evidence from meaningful conversations you can have that invokes ideas and development!
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