Auteur : Pauline McNamara

Flash-Based Learning Tools (online or downloadable)

Flash-Based Learning Tools (online or downloadable)

At the UBC Arts Group flash-based authoring tools are available for creating a timeline, multimedia learning objects, vocabulary trainer, a pronunciation tool among others. Check out all the tools at http://www.learningtools.arts.ubc.ca/ The Timeline Tool...

Serious Games

Serious Games

In an IT Conversations audio piece of just under 40 minutes, Steven Berlin Johnson, author of « Everything Bad Is Good for You », talks about the positive sides of playing video games. « Johnson argues that...

Jay Cross on Visual Learning

Jay Cross on Visual Learning

In an article called Eyes Wide Shut – Envisioning Learning, Jay Cross of the Internet Time Group shares how he uses visualization in his day-to-day learning. In another article called See What I Mean,...

Banning WIFI in university classrooms?

Banning WIFI in university classrooms?

An interesting article on efforts to restrict students’ surfing during class sees it from both sides. Ken Fisher makes the pertinent point, though, that it’s more or less useless to try, since eventually students...

Online Video Editing

Online Video Editing

EdTechPost checked out a couple sites that let you edit videos online. One’s called Eyespot, the other is OneTrueMedia. Not everyone has iMovie, after all. 😉

No Such Thing as a Learning Object

No Such Thing as a Learning Object

The title of Michael Feldstein’s article, There’s No Such Thing as a Learning Object, is as provocative as the article is thought provoking. Some tidbits: « An object is a thing. We don’t learn from...