Colin Harrison's online learning blog

Research and teaching tools from the Literacy Research Association

Mon, 09 Jul 2012 15:07:02 +0100

Here are links to two research and teaching tools from the Literacy Research Association:

Lracooltools

textsandtools

Enjoy!

… and here’s a link to the LRA website:

http://www.literacyresearchassociation.org/

101 Web2.0 Tools for Teachers

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 23:56:40 +0100

This site does a great job- the links have been carefully researched: many will be familiar to Geeks2.0, but not to everyone else!

http://www.goedonline.com/101-web-tools-for-teachers

Here's my presentation to EERA2011 in Berlin

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:43:35 +0100

Here's my presentation to EERA2011 in Berlin:

Title:

Management vision, cumulative affordances, and student autonomy: what governments need to learn about about technology in education.

The Impact 09 project (Crook and Harrison, 2010) was one of the final projects funded by Becta. The project’s remit was to carry out ‘explanatory case studies’ (Yin, 2009) of how children in high-achieving, high-ICT schools were using and learning from ICT. In order to do this, the team carried out a ‘deep audit’ of nine secondary schools, and also collected data on teachers’ goals, activities and resources using both interviews and a web-based lesson-log template. Data from 85 lessons were analysed and the student learning associated with the teaching was evaluated using a specially-developed taxonomy of 19 learning practices. The project reported a high degree of variation in ICT practice in the nine schools, which in some cases demonstrated a discrepancy between head teacher’s stated philosophy and ICT practice encountered in the school. In the most successful schools, however, three factors were present and in congruence: a clearly articulated and fully embedded management vision; a coherent and well-integrated suite of ICT affordances; a model of student self-directed learning that made use of a wide range of ICT resources in and out of school, and which provided goals, tools, support, and feedback.

Colin, I'd be interested to know whether you are a PGCEi student, graduate or facilitator.

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:29:00 +0100

Hiya

Here’s your answer- click on this this url: colinharrison.eu

My closing plenary at ukla 2011 in Chester, uk

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:01:51 +0100

My closing plenary at ukla 2011 in Chester, uk:

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Student Activated Feedback - resources and links

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:49:00 +0100

The format is boring, but the content may be useful!

Below is a link to three sets of resources:

1 Useful SAF-related links from other universities

2 Ideas for SAF-related projects/ units/podcasts

3 Student-Activated Feedback - a selective annotated bibliography

http://safnottingham.tumblr.com/

Thoughtboxes

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 10:46:00 +0100

Thoughtboxes: Organize in Style (via Mashable’s Twitter feed)

Quick Pitch: Thoughtboxes is a simple and stylish way to organize everything you do.

Genius Idea: An elegant twist on online to-do lists.

Mashable’s Take: To-do list applications abound on web and mobile, but Thoughtboxes’ super simple approach will appeal to those looking for a fast and easy way to build lists that are visible a single screen.

Thoughtboxes allows you to organize lists by “trains of thought,” which are essentially topic or project pages. Add boxes to your trains of thoughts, tasks to your boxes and invite friends to chip in with the planning and organization process. You can also manage, move around and color-code boxes, as well as star important tasks.

The free version comes with three trains of thought, but you can upgrade to the paid version for unlimited trains of thought and access to the group features.

Make pdf or jpeg of website or blog- for your Commonplace Book!

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:22:00 +0100

Make pdf or jpeg of website or blog- for your Commonplace Book!:

htm2pdf is a really useful site, if you want to turn a website, or blog, in to a pdf. This can be useful if you want to show somebody a site in printed format, or want a record of what sections of your blog look like over time.

url2jpg does the same thing, except it turns your URL into a .jpg image. Simple, fast, easy, free.

Thank you again, kbkonnected

The Glocalization of Youth Culture: The Global Youth Segment as Structures of Common Difference Youth Segment as Structures of Common Difference

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:25:30 +0100

The Glocalization of Youth Culture: The Global Youth Segment as Structures of Common Difference Youth Segment as Structures of Common Difference:

untanglingtheweb:

pdf of a research study looking at how the “global” youth culture marketing segment is actually a local phenomenon, and therefore youth culture is not so global after all.

Kjeldgaard, D. & Askegaard, S. (2006, Sept). The Glocalization of Youth Culture: The Global Youth Segment as Structures of Common Difference. Journal of Consumer Research, Vol 33: 231-247.

abstract:

In this article we present an analysis of global youth cultural consumption based on a multisited empirical study of young consumers in Denmark and Greenland. We treat youth culture as a market ideology by tracing the emergence of youth culture in relation to marketing and how the ideology has glocalized. This trans-national market ideology is manifested in the glocalization of three structures of common difference that organize our data: identity, center-periphery, and reference to youth cultural consumption styles. Our study goes beyond accounts of global homogenization and local appropriation by showing the glocal structural commonalities in diverse manifestations of youth culture.

a couple of notes:

* use the web to draw together resources from global culture in order to identify with an aspired lifestyle that’s not present locally

* makes the experience more globally oriented

* the internet plays a more important role than TV in providing symbolic imagery of a central identity for youth (particularly when artifacts and expressions of that identity aren’t available locally)

* the web offers a space for “deterritorialized communities of peers” (p. 243): perceptions of greater similarity with people far away

WOW! Check out Web2.0 Cool Tools for Schools

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 22:55:00 +0100

Some great links on this site….

What Does it Mean to Integrate Technology Into the Classroom?

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:55:31 +0100

Mrs Brogley knows!

http://mrsbrogley.com/blog/

kbkonnected: Current is a private daily diary where you write...

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:51:36 +0100

kbkonnected:

Current is a private daily diary where you write your text with 140 characters or less similar to Twitter.

#elemchat #spedchat

I discovered this on iLearn Technology and you can read more about it there. Kelly Tenkely shares some great ways for integrating it into classrooms. She has some fantastic ideas. Kelly also offers 2 suggestions for students who do not have e-mail accounts to access Current using @tempinbox or @mailinator.

I think is a fabulous tool, especially for classrooms without blogs. It’s a great way for a classroom to document what is happening in their classroom. Would be fun to read back at different times of the year.

This also might be a good tool to record quick daily anectdotals.

What a teaching resource! An interactive map leads to 10,000...

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 07:10:00 +0100

What a teaching resource!

An interactive map leads to 10,000 online newspapers, dozens in French, hundreds in Spanish! And all translated with a click….

kbkonnected:

Newspaper Map…Choose a newspaper from around the globe and have it translated in to the language of your choice.

#sschat #elemchat #spedchat

Added to Countries for Kids

Interactive notebooks in the classroom

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 09:49:00 +0100

Interactive notebooks in the classroom:

This teacher http://kbkonnected.tumblr.com uses her blog to share teaching ideas.

Check out this link that she has created to pages of good ideas on creating interactive notebooks in the classroom: http://www.teacherweb.com/SC/LadysIslandMiddleSchool/Gannon/ap6.stm

What do you think is the best way to deal with the increasing number of under 13s using social networks like Facebook?

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 18:17:18 +0100

Thanks for your question

I’ve co-authored a paper on Internet safety:

Sharples, M., Graber, R., Harrison, C. & Logan, K. (2009) E-Safety and Web2.0 for children aged 11-16. Journal of Computer-Assisted Learning, 25, 70-84.

I also like these rules, which are written in child-friendly language

(from this site: http://www.safekids.com/kids-rules-for-online-safety/)

Kids Rules for Online Safety (for pre-teens)

1. I will not give out personal information such as my address, telephone number, parents’ work address/telephone number, or the name and location of my school without my parents’ permission.*

2. I will tell my parents right away if I come across any information that makes me feel uncomfortable.

3. I will never agree to get together with someone I “meet” online without first checking with my parents. If my parents agree to the meeting, I will be sure that it is in a public place and bring my mother or father along.

4. I will never send a person my picture or anything else without first checking with my parents.*

5. I will not respond to any messages that are mean or in any way make me feel uncomfortable. It is not my fault if I get a message like that. If I do I will tell my parents right away so that they can contact the service provider.

6. I will talk with my parents so that we can set up rules for going online. We will decide upon the time of day that I can be online, the length of time I can be online and appropriate areas for me to visit. I will not access other areas or break these rules without their permission.

7. I will not give out my Internet password to anyone (even my best friends) other than my parents.

8. I will check with my parents before downloading or installing software or doing anything that could possibly hurt our computer or jeopardize my family’s privacy*

9. I will be a good online citizen and not do anything that hurts other people or is against the law.

10. I will help my parents understand how to have fun and learn things online and teach them things about the Internet, computers and other technology.

WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST HUMAN MEMORY?

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:48:17 +0100

Being held by my legs and spun round by an older kid when I was about 3 years old. I think he dropped me….

Is Evernote the best ever multi-media multi-platform note-taking tool?

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 09:12:00 +0100

Is Evernote the best ever multi-media multi-platform note-taking tool?:

Evernote is currently my best bet for an electronic Commonplace Book.

It does what it says on tin: “Capture anything; Access anywhere; Find things fast”.

I access my Evernote account from my iPhone, iMac (home office), MacBookAir and Dell desktop (running Windows XP in my work office). I particularly value the instant cross-platform updates of everything from voice notes, iPhone photos of scribbled notes, and the most impressive tool of all- the capability to search text that include what Evernote has automatically located and scanned from photos or screen-captures.

I love Jenn Vargas’s characterisation of Evernote as her ‘inspiration museum’.

Which is better- a blog or a wiki?

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 09:04:00 +0100

Which is better- a blog or a wiki?:

Blogs and wikis serve different purposes:

- I think of a blog as an ongoing reflective journal, connected to other reflective journals

- I think of a wiki as a collective, a socially-constructed live wall of post-its

So I don’t necessarily agree with the pro-wiki perspective of this link….

What are the best ways to help highly motivated adults to learn online?

Fri, 27 May 2011 14:15:00 +0100

The students on the University of Nottingham Post-Graduate Certificate of Educationinternational course (PGCEi) come from all over the world (Africa, the Caribbean, the Middle East, Spain, Malaysia and China). The course is taught partly face-to-face, but mostly online, and as we all know, online learning can be a very lonely business.

The staff who run the course want to encourage the students to participate in more social networking, forming small (or large) learning communities, engaging in peer-to-peer mentoring, sharing video and multimedia learning diaries, and so on.

My reason for setting up this blog is to offer an example of the ways in which a blog can both chronicle and extend a person’s learning. So I shall add thoughts, links and resources to it over the coming months, and shall welcome the thoughts, links and reflections of others.

"“Read - in order to live” Flaubert “Blog - in order to peek into the mind of the..."

Fri, 27 May 2011 13:28:36 +0100

“

“Read - in order to live”
Flaubert

“Blog - in order to peek into the mind of the world”
Flo and Bert

”