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 …
Author archives: Daniel Adeboye (PhD)
Blurred Backgrounds for E-Learning
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 …
Design of a mini-course for research students
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 …
Continue reading “Design of a mini-course for research students”
Basic Learning Anatomy
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 …
Quickly add random “Lorem ipsum” text in PowerPoint
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 …
Continue reading “Quickly add random “Lorem ipsum” text in PowerPoint”
Sharing Tribe, PLN, COPs – Different? Overlap?
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 …
Continue reading “Sharing Tribe, PLN, COPs – Different? Overlap?”
Getting Started with Twitter Chats
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 …
Send PDF Documents via WhatsApp
Over the past weeks, WhatsApp had an update to its mobile apps. Whatsapp, which has grown from simply being a free texting service to the go-to app for communication, seem to be making series of updates to their app just to make it easier to keep in touch with family and friends. I can count …
SlideShare – Communities of Practice
Though a bit late, I am still joining in the ELHChallenge for this week. This week, David asked us to SlideShare our e-learning examples. The simple idea is to share something you’ve worked on, but, this time, using SlideShare. Since I already had an ineffective account on SlideShare, it was a good way to use …
Managing your Podcast – Podcast Addict App
Recently I heard my brother listening to a podcast I was interested in and when I asked in detail, he showed me the android app Podcast Addict. I looked through it briefly and decided to give it a try at managing my several podcasts. I’ve used it for just about a month but I have …
Continue reading “Managing your Podcast – Podcast Addict App”