I have been reading about the importance of sleep lately and after a relatively poor nights sleep and feeling horrible this morning I have decided to test out the 90 Minute rule methodology. One of the most important factors for effective learning is enough sleep so this simply methodology could have a significant difference.
I will be using the website sleeptiming.com to help me determine just when I need to go to sleep.
The above video is based on Richard Wiseman’s book Night School
Stay tuned for results of my experiment.
Clayton R. Wright has released his the 31th edition of the conference list. The list below covers selected events focused primarily on the use of technology in educational settings and on teaching, learning, and educational administration. Only listings until December 2014 are complete as dates, locations, or URLs are not available for a number of events held after December 2014.
Educational Technology and Education Conferences #31 June to December 2014 Clayton R Wright.doc
Clayton has also passed on links to several documents that can be useful if you or your organization is looking at a new LMS or developing or reviewing online courses.
Selecting an LMS: Advice from an Academic Perspective, (April 2014) http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/selecting-learning-management-system-advice-academic-perspective?utm_source=Informz&utm_medium=Email+marketing&utm_campaign=EDUCAUSE including 305 questions or features to consider during the LMS selection process, http://www.educause.edu/visuals/shared/er/ero1434/selecting_lms.pdf
The companion article to the above is Developing and Reviewing Online Courses – Items for Consideration: http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/2011/11/developing-and-reviewing-online-courses-items-for-consideration/ It covers accessibility, organization, language, layout, goals and objectives, course content, instructional or learning strategies, learning resources, and evaluation.
For a learning theorist and instructor there are few things more invigorating than working with a group of highly motivated faculty. I had one of those invigorating sessions today at BCIT when I had the privilege of conducting a Part Time Studies Instructor Professional Development Day workshop on the Power of Video. While we focused much of our time on using Youtube to create a context, introduce a concept, provide a bridge, introduce humour, create engagement, offer complex instruction and much much more, we also explored using other forms of media in combination with video to enhance the face2face, blended or online learning environment.
The following are all the Youtube clips used in the workshop as well as several of my favourites that we unable to view due to the lack of time. Note for next year—need to allocate at least 90 minutes or more for the session.
Workshop slide deck in PDF – Power of Video.pdf
How to instructions:
Introduce a concept
Start at 4:00 minute
Introduce a context & bridge into the subject
Start at 15:01
Introduce the Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG) for an online course
Introduce yourself and make a connection with students
How to instructions + pictures and step by step text
This link will take you away from this page so remember to use the back button to get back to the blog – http://www.pinkbike.com/news/tech-tuesday-bleeding-avid-brakes-2010.html
Humor & comic relief
Introduce the main point of an argument
Identify and define a concept
Introduce an controversial topic
Perhaps one of the best talks on learning & education – My favourite TED Talk
This just one of many TED talks that I recommend. If you go to TED.com and filter by “Most viewed” you will see Ken Robinson’s talks as well as Simon Sinek’s talk about Why and many more amazing talks.
This link will take you away from this page so remember to use the back button to get back to the blog – http://neomam.com/interactive/13reasons/
My blog post The Power of Media in informal learning offers the insights that I have found in using media to help my two sons in their pursuit of becoming professional downhill racers.
Finally, to easily download video clips from youtube and embed them into your Powerpoint or Keynote programs (educational acceptable copyright permitting–check with your department or library) you can use the site clipconverter.cc
Enjoy!
After spending two full days in the Creating Significant Learning Environment (CSLE) workshop with some highly motivated faculty from School of Business at BCIT I am convinced that the future is very bright for BCIT students. Our primary focus was creating significant learning environments that would take advantage of technology to enhance learning. We explored using technology to enhance the face2face, flipped, hybrid or blended and fully online settings. All the technology related activities were grounded with well defined learning outcomes and we continually looked at the balance in aligning the outcomes with effective technology enhanced activities and assessments which confirmed the learning outcomes would be achieved.
The following are all the Youtube clips and related links used in the workshop as well as several of my favourites that we unable to view due to the lack of time.
CSLE slide deck in PDF – CSLE 2-Day SoB Workshop.pdf
How to instructions:
Introduce a concept
Start at 4:00 minute
Introduce a context & bridge into the subject
Start at 15:01
Introduce the Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG) for an online course
Introduce yourself and make a connection with students
Flipped classroom assignment
Link to Visible Learning assignment page
Humor & comic relief
Introduce the main point of an argument
Perhaps one of the best talks on learning & education – My favourite TED Talk
This just one of many TED talks that I recommend. If you go to TED.com and filter by “Most viewed” you will see Ken Robinson’s talks as well as Simon Sinek’s talk about Why and many more amazing talks.
My blog post The Power of Media in informal learning offers the insights that I have found in using media to help my two sons in their pursuit of becoming professional downhill racers.
Finally, to easily download video clips from youtube and embed them into your Powerpoint or Keynote programs (educational acceptable copyright permitting–check with your department or library) you can use the site clipconverter.cc
Enjoy!
