Breathing Life into E-Learning

Breathing life into E-Learning

My talk was originally called “Breathing life into E-learning”, but now it has become a snapshot of my experience with online teaching over the past decade, in the university of Verona, Italy. I look at the way my work has changed, the way VLEs are being used at my university and explore some of the potential of Moodle.

This fair provides an exciting context to communicate in a different way, so I’ve decided to do a “blended presentation” to reflect my topic. It includes video, which will also be shown 3 times (I hope) during the fair. There is also the F2F part of the presentation, involving a guided discovery questionnaire, and the fair is, of course, also an informal place to meet and talk about our experiences and ideas. Thirdly, there is an online wiki, which is part of my site:

http://hartledistancelearning.wikispaces.com

(Go to the page entitled Harrogate Iatefl 2010)

You can go there to follow some links on the site, and to see some of the lessons we are doing at the moment, as well as to take part in a discussion if you want to.

Finally there is a Voicethread file, a type of short video of the session with my comments that you can add your comments to as well, so please follow this link.

Hope to see you at the Interactive Fair!