Mind42 – another online concept mapping tool

I have been experimenting with another online concept mapping tool. This one is called Mind42 and can be found at http://www.mind42.com I think this has a use and supercedes my recent postings to this blog where I have mentioned bubbl.us and Mind Meister, Bubbl looked OK but took a bit of getting used to, Mind [...]

The use of M-learning in the delivery of ESOL

I have just presented at a conference organised by sector training on the use of m-learning in the delivery of ESOL. The session focussed on ways that students mobile phones can be used to support learning, as well as podcasting, voting pads and of course my favourite tool – the wireless mouse and keyboard. Session [...]

‘Safeguarding people’ training run by Barnardos

Yesterday I attended a training session at Loughborough College run by the charity Barnardos on safeguarding vulnerable young people and adults, and the training was actually quite good. In the past people that work primarily with children (e.g. schools and youth services) have been pretty hot on this, but FE and HE haven’t been as [...]

Bloom’s Taxonomy

People working in the world of education, will probably have come across Bloom’s Taxonomy at some point in their past, and although (like any other educational model) it has some critics, who think that it over simplifies things, I think the fact that it is so simple makes it a useful tool, as it is [...]

Changing the appearance of this Blog and RSS feeds

I have changed the appearance of this blog, as the previous default didn’t have an RSS link attached to it (which I thought was a bit odd, I had assumed that, RSS was a standard feature of a blog, so hadn’t noticed it that it wasn’t there).
The beauty of RSS is that rather than someone [...]

Periodic table of visualisation methods

I have spent most of today (and some of yesterday) planning a training session on ‘using computer aided interactivity’, and during this process I remembered a website that I had seen many months ago.
http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html
It basically gives details of all sorts of different ways that visuals can be used to represent information and understanding, and this [...]

Learning Styles questionnaire

One of the best known Learning Styles questionnaires is the 40 questions devised by Honey and Mumford to determine if you are an activitst, pragmatist, reflector or theorist. A few years ago (whilst working at Loughborough College) I created an Excel sheet which used these questions and plotted the results onto a 4 pronged graph. [...]

Improvements to the ‘PowerPoint Score Ladders’ Resource

Following a few requests from people, I have made an improvement to the Score Ladders Resource, in that I have added an extra slide containing cumulative score ladders – so rather than a single block moving up the ladder, as it moves up all the blocks below it remain coloured in. I have also added [...]