moving beyond the vanilla

Moving Beyond the Vanilla

Friday, 13 November 2009

People enjoy video games because their creators put engagement before everything else


eLearning authors often put engagement a distant second to academic rigour


Understanding the flavoursVanilla, Chocolate and more...


Lets talk Vanilla


LMS as a repository - Bag and Tag it!


Lets talk Vanilla

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What is he on about?


Keys to adding flavourMoving away from the vanilla


Engagement IS the key

EngageExplore

RepeatEnquireTrigger

TestQueryPause

RewindInteract

CreateRespond

CustomiseReact


Effective Instructional Design is the key


Interaction can be the key

Connect

Collaborate

Contribute


Effective Use of DesignSending your courseware out with Style


Design for Engagement, not just Branding


Use Tools that suit your audience and your needs


Make Assesment a Little more Interesting


Engaging with different toolsTaming some of the Web 2.0


Based on new version of Blooms Hierarchy/Taxonomy created by Mike Fisher - @fisher1000

REMEMBERING

UNDERSTANDING

APPLYING

ANALYSING

EVALUATING

CREATING

Text


Enjoy your Mash

๏ Flickr

๏ Twitter

๏ Youtube

๏ Delicious

๏ And more...

INTEGRATE


Student Created ContentLet them do some of the hard work


But Why would they?

it’s fun

personal benefit

a genuine want to help

attention seeking

status

rewards


How do we do it?

Glossaries

BlogsWiki’s

Forums

Galleries

Chatrooms


Connect the learnerExtend them (and yourself) with PLN’s


Additional Roles of a PLN

24/7 Learning

Human Hard Drive


ThankyouPresenter: Julian Ridden

Email: [email protected]

Twitter: moodleman

www: http://moodleman.net

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