The UCL Institute of Education has a free course on Blended and Online Learning Design that will appeal to anybody at any level of education from Primary to Higher Education. This MOOC* is available from Monday 11 January delivered on FutureLearn.
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/blended-and-online-learning-design
Duration: 3 weeks
Weekly study: 3 hours
* MOOC – Massive Open Online Course
Geotagging: The process of adding location information in the form of latitude and longitude to media allows others to identify where the photo was taken. Here’s a thought: Geotagging is getting popular for instance Google Maps which shows photos taken in the area you are viewing by the public and placed on Picassa or Flickr…
How do you react to the idea of children being wet or messy or muddy? Do worry about the actual state of being messy? The hassle of sorting them out? Cleaning up? What others might think of you? Something else? One of my earliest experiences in youth work was seeing both children’s enjoyment of being…
H5P is a rapidly evolving modular suite of tools that can be easily configured to present information, single or short instructional units and even short courses within a single H5P module, including various interactive exercises and media. One big advantage of H5P is that it is easy to learn, can be used by anybody to…
It’s fairly easy to define play, or is it? “Play: any spontaneous or organized activity that provides enjoyment, entertainment, amusement, or diversion” Oxford Reference, Oxford University Press What about… “Play is often defined as activity done for its own sake, characterized by means rather than ends” Peter Smith & Anthony Pellegrini (2023), Learning Through Play,…
H5P is fast becoming one of my favourite tools for developing rich online educational content. From simple quizzes, timelines and drag and drop to more complex branching scenarios, interactive videos and course presentations. Take for example the interactive video below based on a BBC presentation about the aurora borealis and legends surrounding it. So why…
It’s easy to make the wrong assumptions about what we see or are told when we don’t know the full story. John Arendt wrote an article in 2017 called “The picture didn’t tell the whole story” for the Summerland Review (https://www.summerlandreview.com/opinion/column-the-picture-didnt-tell-the-whole-story-4138835). The piece centres around the image above showing a group of young people seated…
