It was an exciting past week as I just returned from the Digital Education Show Africa Conference, 18th – 19th October. I had looked forward greatly to it and I was not disappointed. There were quite a number of great sessions, discussions and speakers and so I have decided to trap down (while still fresh) …
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Something is missing in our equation for applying technology in education and that’s the cause for all failures – right, digital pedagogy! Technology is only a tool; we must get our principles right.
Research has shown that though mobile technology is a great tool in our teaching and learning experience, many who use it only use it to increase efficiency and not necessarily effectiveness. This article provides 5 suggestions of how to effectively use mobile technology in the classroom.
Sometime last year, I participated in Blair Rorani’s twitter draw-a-thon challenge on #Everybodydrawnow. It was quite fun and just when we thought it was over, Jeff Kortenbosch continued the challenge but with a little twist on it. Jeff challenged us with 20 images to draw but we had to use Microsoft PowerPoint alone. I joined in that challenge …
This week, David Anderson challenged us with creating blurred backgrounds for use in e-learning and several e-learning heroes came up with many great ideas for when to use blurred backgrounds. Use of blurred backgrounds. In e-learning, background images can be blurred to bring attention to the character or text on the screen, which would ordinarily have conflicted …
The E-Learning challenge for this week was interesting maybe because this time, David allows us to pick our own challenge and design, only it must be original to this challenge. I really enjoyed going through the submissions of community members and seeing what happens when David allows designers to pick their own challenge – so much …
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What is Learning? There has been varied definitions and descriptions of learning and theorists have explained it in different ways. However, everyone (including me) has learnt one thing or the other, at one point or the other in life. So in the past few weeks, I had been thinking about what learning is to me …
Recently, I received an email update showing me a PowerPoint tip that I did not know about and so I decided to share it with you. I had been seeing other people create entire paragraphs of random text and I wondered how they generated these text. Many of them are “Lorem ipsum” texts which I …
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Think of this blog post as a #ThinkingOutLoud kind of post and though it may not look perfect/finished, I wanted it out for some discussion (if I might get some). We just finished another #PKMChat tonight on Knowledge creation, sharing, exploring. Apart from all the discussions around portfolios and those around what stage of our …
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I’m sure you must have heard of “Twitter Chats” before now, and twitter chats are a good use of Twitter for professionals. I would just briefly give a simple description and show basics of what twitter chats are and participating in them. What’s a Twitter Chat? A twitter chat is a (usually) one-hour discussion, at …
