virtual makeover: 15+ ideas for engaging elearning
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15+ Ideas to Get Students Actively Learning Online
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Virtual Makeover!
"The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.” by John Naisbitt
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Impact Thousands
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Mission: Teacher
Focus on the
learning!
iPad car mount by hammershaug, Flickr
iPad car mount by hammershaug, Flickr
“Pedagogy is the driver, technology is the accelerator.” by Michael Fullan
Steve-‐wheeler.blogspot.com
Step into your learners’ shoes
Creativity
Collaboration
Connectivism
Play
Citizenship
Experimentation
Real-world connections
Peeragogy
Exploration
• Students shape their learning & the curriculum • Instructor(s) builds the foundation & provides various opportunities for learners to collaboratively create and curate the content and resources • Students learn from & support each other
Howard Rheingold Peeragogy.com
Co-learning & Peeragogy
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to
succeed. - Napoleon Hill
Participant Map
Thinglink.com/scene/469135908172464130
3,2,1 Introduction
3 Things we should know about you 2 Places you love to visit 1 Job you wish you had
Peer Edit
HangOuts
PearlTree
Pinterest Livebinders
List.ly
Storify Educlipper
List.ly
Pinterest �
“Learning is not the product of teaching.
Learning is the product of the
activity of learners.” - John Holt
Voicethread.com
• Discussions • Debates • Peer edi>ng • Poetry • Commentary • Review
Activity: Create infographics with Piktochart.com
Newspagedesigner.org/photo/ucl-‐final-‐munich-‐2012
Activity: Compare teams (Infographic)
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Learn with comics!
Comic by Carmen Soto Fernández
Created with Comicshead.com
IOS & Android App
Idea: Visualize poetry
Idea: Recreate a scene from history
Patricia Lucas, Phrase.it, Pinterest.com/pin/393220611186213680
328-‐ Nov 23th, 2012 -‐ Life of a Riyadh Teenager #365photoAR by Waleed Alzuhai, Flickr
“People don’t have a propensity
for laziness. People have a propensity
for hard work. It just needs to be
work that matters to them.”
- Jane McGonigal
Instead of homework and tasks…
Write an essay. Watch a video.
Give missions, quests &
challenges!
Topic: Hobbies
Challenge: Post a picture of one of your favorite hobbies & describe why you enjoy it.
Photo/video challenges
Scenario: The mayor is ridding the city of graffiti unless he is convinced it is art.
Mission: Snap photos of graffiti you want to keep and make a strong argument why it is art.
Points Worth: 10
Bonus Points: Post a short reflection in your blog for 5 more points.
Instead of grades …
Altered image, Fuck this! by rafael-‐cas>llo, Flickr
Points & badges
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Photopeach.com
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Guests engage students
Brainstorm
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Let’s Brainstorm
Storyboard
Go on a virtual
field trip!
Virtual field trips with Google.com/culturalinstitute
Google Earth
http://www.google.com/earth/index.html
Children's book written by Mr. Smith’s 5th grade special education students at Gibbs Elementary School http://bit.ly/1eiMdLq
An interactive field guide of Northwest Florida. Created by Andrea Santilli’s 7th grade students from Woodlawn Beach Middle School http://bit.ly/1eiMnCu
ePortfolio Reflections
Present.me/view/197057-digital-storytelling-andr-233-s-g
Pearltree.com
Pearltrees.com/shellyterrell/integrating-web-2/id8081935
It all begins with seeds
“If your actions in the classroom inspire children to achieve more, question more, and dream
more, you are indeed worthy of the title “Teacher.”’ – Robert John Meehan
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