Teaching with Wikipedia: generating ebooks, evaluation of pages, concept maps
Michael Gallagher It is Christmas Day and as my wife and I don’t have children, we have oodles of time to do things like write blog posts. I just finished grading my…
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Making learning engagement maps: (less technologically deterministic) design methods for learning
(My London learning landscape; original image taken from Simon Narracott) I am once again employing ideas I gathered from Finnish colleagues and applying them to my own learning scenarios. Great…
Geocaching Korean Literature: Field Exploration of the novel Three Generations in Seoul
I am working on an incredibly exciting project with my colleague Pekka Ihanainen that I won’t go into detail about as it is still under development, but this post is…
Learning merely for the sake of understanding: Clumsy metaphors and impressions as scaffolds
I have had this quote pasted to a note on my desktop for the last few weeks. I do this from time to time, post a few quotes here and…
Thinglink for interpretation of images to other modes: Translation as comprehension
Building on my previous post on using Pinterest for classroom use for writing, this post is about using Thinglink (or some equivalent service) for translating images into text. This idea…
Using Pinterest in the classroom: stimulating composition through images and across languages
Switching Modes: Images to Text In my classes (undergraduate composition courses, mostly) in Seoul, I am trying to expose my students as often as possible to activities where they are…
mLearning field activities and visualizing challenging learning spaces
“May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.”-Rainer Maria Rilke I believe that if I have…