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Learning at the speed of desire

Learning at the speed of desire

All to change in education Total mayhem all around at this end. The PGCE I am doing, onto Module 3 now, was a must have to balance against the Masters in Education I did 7 years ago. I need the front line practice and experience I do not feel I get as a learning technologist. It makes the academic theory more relevant. I see myself as a Learning Designer in future and will teach both online and…

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Getting that message out in 2020

Getting that message out in 2020

Going online and using social media is no different to old school PR and advertising: you have to have something to say, and either do it often, or do it with creative flair. Most mortals go for ‘doing it often’.

From a person this is easy, any of us during the day, hear, do or share something that is related to practices and beliefs we hold dear.

Presence is the key, and unfortunately…

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Teachers should work in teams A teaching team of two (at least) is what teaching requires in 2020. Digital changes everything, whether online or off, as soon as it goes on a screen it has to compete for the 'attention of eyeballs'.

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David Susskind on AI in the world of work and how it will impact the laggardly education

David Susskind on AI in the world of work and how it will impact the laggardly education

David Susskind at the EdTech Summit 2020

The Future of Education 

This was a lecture that sustained its pace. I’ve changed its title because I suspect that he adapted ‘the lecture of the book’ ‘A World Without Work’ and then journalistically tossed in a bit of Covid, when in fact his presentation and thesis was that education is getting behind and profound change is in the air. Some have…

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Reflections on EdTech Summit 2020

Reflections on EdTech Summit 2020

EdTech Panel 2020

I’ve had a profound week, utterly immersed in all things digital, with two intense days online with the EdTech Summit 2020 in which two radically superior classroom online platforms were used, AND two far, far superior collaborative ‘white boards’ (comparing Padlet, Trello and Jamboard) were used too – the most impressive being something called Miro from www.miro.com 

I’ve got…

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An introduction to E-Learning

I started my first online degree with the Open University in March 2001. It was one of the first of its kind, the Masters in Distance Learning from the Open University in 2001. A box arrived with books and DVDs, otherwise everything was online. The ‘ChatBoard’ was pretty crude. For me it was a false start, with Brighton work going pear-shaped in September 2001. I should have finished that first…

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Are your computers ‘sanitized’ - given a clean - of any kind?

Are your computers ‘sanitized’ – given a clean – of any kind?

My concern for staff who hot desk (me) and students is that they will often sit down at a computer where someone has sneezed onto the keyboard and screen without any attempt whatsoever to shield their environment from the germs they are spreading.

I see this often. What about you?

The answer is to educate staff and students.     

Add cleaning keyboards and screens to what the cleaning…

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Lewes Late Night Shopping 2019

Lewes Late Night Shopping 2019

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Working with tutors to create immersive and effective elearning for SEND students

Working with tutors to create immersive and effective elearning for SEND students

Now that the development phase is passing into review, first with an SEND tutor and then with SEND studens themselves I am learning:

Value of Video Demo: signing in to a the resource centre, logging in to a computer.

Importance of talking them through things we may take for granted.  

Pick out key things, in this case opening and closing times.

Add a quiz to this to give it emphasis and to engage…

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Thinglink Tour of the Learning Resource Centre for SEND Students

Thinglink Tour of the Learning Resource Centre for SEND Students

Give it a go. Let me know what I might change to impove it!

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Video Production Kit

Having to become a videographer in my own right or at college required me to kit up. All from 12 things a filmmaker must have

This is lot is recommended. Some I have.

PC with video card, RAM and screens

Full HD camera with Manual 

Memory – lots of cards

Filters – for shallow depth of field

Fluid head tripod e.g. Manproto 501 

Sound Recorder – Tascam or Zoom HR4N

Headphones

External microphone –…

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Barcelona Day 3

Day 3: Barcelona

It is a joy to be close enough to walk and to prepare our own low carb breakfast: spinach, tomatoes and egg.

We head out along a series of tall streets to the edge of the park around Montjuic.

Museu National d’Art de Catalunya

Arriving soon after opening whilst there are a reasonable number of people outside taking shots of the view and selfies, there are few…

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Barcelona

Day 1 Barcelona Air BnB Trip

Deposited at terminal C and found ourselves wandering off towards a distant train station in a gradually dwindling group. Soon lost and in building works we shared views and I found myself leading the party the length of the airport from terminals C, through B towards A.

Starting to realise the length of the walk and realising that the bus parked by Terminal B…

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Together. The Rituals, Pleasures & Politics of Cooperation

Together. The Rituals, Pleasures & Politics of Cooperation

Ditching Museum of Craft & Design is a gem. Its aesthetics, book choices and cake are amazing. It was worth joining simply to get the discount on all the books I bought.

As a budding local politician negotiating the slippery-slide of collaboration with other parties this is proving insightful. How do we get on as humans when our ideas might differ? How might we get on when our ideas overlap…

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Life Drawing

A delight to be back with Silvia MacRae Brown at Charleston – only 2 months short of three years since I last attended. And possibly as long since I did any life drawing, though I may have had a few sessions at Sussex Arts Club.

I got through 15 ‘cheap’ sheets and a few more expensive sheets. I enjoy the rapid fire drawings and the exercises, such as drawing with you eyes closed once you have…

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Sustainable Transport Lewes

(Response by Jonathan Vernon. Green Party Town Council Candidate, Castle Ward)

Lewes Cycle Planning

Bikes at the Prison Crossroads on the entry to Lewes. 5 Nov.

Leading up to 5 November parked motor vehicles disappear from the streets of Lewes and in the day during the afternoon all motor traffic disappears. Imagine a Lewes like that all the year round. Imagine only pedestrians and cycle…

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Presenting Planet EStream to Trainee Teachers

Presenting Planet EStream to Trainee Teachers

I recently took a class of 12 PGCE Level Two Teacher Trainees on a tour of Planet eStream.

It was a class on elearning tools, so they got some mind mapping with SimpleMinds, the 360 tour creator ThingLink and WordPress blogging too. They were jsut as insterested in these so more sessions are needed.

  Becoming a champion for this TV, Video, multi-media educational platform I found I…