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HelenWhitehead.com
creative digital writing
Reach Further
Consultancy and professional services in online content, community and e-learning
The eTeachersPortal
creative uses of ICT for teaching writing and literacy in school
Kids on the Net
Website for children to publish their writing, plus digital writing projects
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Wednesday, 23 August 2006
Last day at work
OK, so it's my last day at work as an E-Learning Facilitator for NCSL Many thanks to the fantastic team who have made my year here a wonderful learning experience. I have made both friends and mentors.
May I promote a couple of very useful free e-learning resources produced by the incredible e-learning team at NCSL?
The e-learning facilitation toolkit is a brilliant resource for anyone facilitating a community, especially in education, but there's advice for everyone with some great examples.
There is also the book "70,000 heads are better than one - lessons from the world's biggest online learning community for school leaders" - available free as a download or printed copy from the NCSL website
Next month I move on to new e-learning pastures. Watch this space!
Ten of us e-learning facilitators are leaving at the end of this month. If anyone needs a brilliant team of facilitators/e-learning experts or any combination of one or more e-learning skills, I can probably put you in touch with someone/persons to suit!
posted by Helen Whitehead 2:36 PM
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Thursday, 10 August 2006
Blackboard patents elearning technology
The mind boggles. Blackboard has filed a US patent (and is filing elsewhere in the world) that claims they invented the VLE - courses available on a computer network remotely, the roles of administrator, instructor and student, announcements, course info, online forums, chat and whiteboards.
How serious is this? It depends on what you read whether all VLEs will have to cave in and pay royalties or go to the wall (Blackboard are already suing the unfortunate desire2learn) - or it's all a storm in a teacup - is Blackboard's position unsustainable?
I'm wondering if a change in nomenclature and viewpoint would work. Maybe this is the heads-up to the industry to move away from attempting to recreate the face-to-face classroom environment in electronic form - we could be innovating and producing whole new models more suited to learning styles and practice in the world today.
More at No Educational Patents
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posted by Helen Whitehead 10:21 AM
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