Creative Commons Explained (YouTube)
Further to our post Copyright & The Learning Renaissance, this video explains more about Creative Commons usage.
Digital Storytelling using Photo Story: Flowerpod
This is a Photo Story used to tell a simple story. The twist is that it was compiled by a number of adults with learning difficulties whom I work with … Continue reading
Microsoft Photo Story: Using Multimedia to Repurpose Learning
Microsoft Photo Story was a simple multimedia editing suite which enabled you to combine images, text, narration and soundtrack into a simple presentation format. It was formerly developed by Microsoft, … Continue reading
British Council Film Archive
This link gives access to some wonderful British Council Film Archives for use in learning… British Council Film Archives @ Vimeo
Copyright & The Learning Renaissance
One of the great features of the Learning Renaissance has been the drive by government and museums to place their online resources in the public domain for free use by … Continue reading
Thought For The Day: Rainy Days, Lost Luggage and Tangled Christmas Tree Lights
“I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.” – … Continue reading
Planning the 21st Century Classroom
So, what will the classroom of the 21st century look like and what will happen in there? Some useful pointers here… The impact of these networked digital technologies in the … Continue reading
Thought For The Day, from FDR
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Passing of a Visionary Legend – Maya Angelou
“She lived a life as a teacher, activist, artist and human being… The family is extremely appreciative of the time we had with her and we know that she is … Continue reading
A Rubric to Help You Create Rubrics
Rubrics serve a wide variety of purposes most important of which is to guide the instructional process in class towards a set of predefined goals. Although most of teachers subsume … Continue reading
Learning Resources for Mathematics Teachers
I’m not a great fan of compendiums of resources generally, as I believe it is the creativity of the teacher that delivers the best resources. However, the Maths teachers I’ve … Continue reading
MOOCs (Mass Open Online Courses): The Shape of Learning to Come… But What Are They?
A fantastic recent development in the world of Higher Education is the MOOC or Mass Online Open Learning Course. The idea behind this is that leading universities put their learning … Continue reading
Gaming approaches to stimulating literacy and creativity
“…spaces where gamers get to virtually meet and discuss the content of their games, help each other solve game-related problems, these spaces are multimodal sites of literacy in which students … Continue reading
Project-Based Learning: How To Develop a System
If we accept that giving the learner greater control over determining the content and methods to employ in their learning (this is one aspect of personalisation) then it follows that … Continue reading
Blogging – The Way of the Future?
I’ve always been a little reticent about starting a blog as I felt it could be something of a self-indulgent pastime. The Learning Renaissance blog exists firstly because of the … Continue reading
The link between emotions, language and empowerment
Sports psychologists have worked for a long time on the notion that positive self talk – that is the internal conversation we have with ourself is critical to performance quality. … Continue reading
Web Tools To Help Students Study Collaboratively
Students love to work in groups and every teacher knows this fact by heart. Group work has several pedagogical pluses that includes developing collaborative and co-operative skills, enhancing social skills … Continue reading
Body Language and Effective Communication
Sometimes, it is not just what you say, but the way that you say it that is memorable in presentations and wider learning. This infographic gives some basis tips for … Continue reading
Apps for Pre-School Learners
The responsiveness of a touchscreen has made the iPad a remarkable tool for learning. Since our little learners are often the beneficiaries of these tools, here are some teacher-tested apps … Continue reading
Defining 21st Century Learning: The Flipped Classroom
As a means of defining what is meant by 21st century learning, the term the “flipped classroom” has come into use, particularly in the United States. This infographic captures the … Continue reading
The 8 Key Elements Of Digital Literacy (Edudemic)
Many teachers have added ‘digital literacy’ as number four on the list of literacies their students should have (or be working towards, in most cases). Reading, writing, and math are … Continue reading
New Learners vs New Teachers (ETML)
“…this chart captures the essence of the thinking and values that lie behind the new assigned roles of teachers and student. These roles are informed by the new conceptions of … Continue reading
Digital Citizenship Poster
For all the educational benefits of online learning, it is critical that young people are able to operate safely online and understand that the moral rules, etiquette and laws that … Continue reading
Learning Renaissance in action: The use of learning technologies in medicine – Google Glass
This article, shared by my colleague, Dr Darleana McHenry, is a great practical demonstration of how new learning technologies are impacting on the culture of sharing and development in organisations … Continue reading
Unicef: New insights into brain development (YouTube)
In the first years of life, neurons in our brain form new connections at the astounding rate of 700-1000 per second – a pace that is not repeated again. But … Continue reading
Technology Integration Matrix for Teachers
The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, constructive, … Continue reading
FutureLearn – Learning for Life
FutureLearn is the UK equivalent of Coursera, and puts the content of University courses free online for individual study… you don’t get the qualification at the end though… you still … Continue reading
Guardian: The Evolution of London
How technology can give us a different insight into the world of history… Researchers at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis collated vast datasets to map the capital’s transformation from … Continue reading
Promoting STEM projects – the student perspective
This report gathers together responses from US students about their experience in collaborating in STEM projects and the benefits of them from their learning perspective… Although not everyone is a classroom … Continue reading
The Metropolitan Museum of Art | The Collection Online
The Collection Online | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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