KEVIN THORN – CRYSTAL BALLING WITH LEARNNOVATORS
KEVIN THORN - CRYSTAL BALLING WITH LEARNNOVATORS ABOUT KEVIN THORN: Kevin Thorn is an award-winning e-learning designer & developer, consultant, and owner of NuggetHead Studioz, […]
Naraview: The Wikipedia-Powered Game Maker
Ever wish you could take plain old Wikipedia entries and make them a bit more exciting? While many teachers eschew Wikipedia as a valid source […]
Wikipedia First: New Rules for Online Research
A recent article in Wired revisited how attitudes toward Wikipedia come face to face with the reality of Wikipedia. It is the world's eighth most visited […]
Seven Reasons Why Open Educational Resources Are The Wise Way To Go In Moodle
To encourage the use —and help dispel some myths— of Open Educational Resources, particularly in the Ontario region, government-funded NGO Contact North has published a […]
What I’ve learned from my kids: Motivation
A while ago I started writing about things I’ve started to learn from watching my kids grow and how they see things. I’ve started to […]
Create easy to navigate Moodle lessons using the Table of Contents generator plugin
Do you want to add a Wikipedia like Table of contents box on some of your long Moodle lessons. A table of content box makes […]
Other Thoughts on Small Wins
I had been been stuck, stuck, stuck in the doldrums on my latest Free Code Camp project, the Wikipedia Viewer, in large part because I […]
10 Summer Learning Activities Every Parent Should Know
The RAND Corporation, in a report, has highlighted that kids can lose up to a month of learning during summer. As per NSLA, these summer […]
Wikipedia Edit-a-thon for Women in Science and Engineering
"According to a 2005 study done by Nature, Wikipedia contains only slightly more inaccuracies in science-related topics than does Encyclopaedia Britannica" (Chandler, 2010) Shigeru Tamura […]
Open Educational Resouces Information Session
At yesterday's information session, we shared a number of resources to help faculty participate in the Open Educational Resources (OER) Movement. Faculty and Grad Students […]
Wikipedia Assignments for Education
Guest Blogger: René Tanner, Life Sciences LibrarianWikipedia, the free, open, online encyclopedia has the potential to share information and knowledge with people around the world. […]
