Creative Commons is an ideal way to share your creations with others and find art for personal projects. Some of us, though, don’t always understand the rules. This chart helps you understand the key differences among licenses. Source: lifehacker.com See on Scoop.it - Blended Learning Lab The post Understand Creative Commons Licensing With This Chart appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

The Electronic Management of Assessment (EMA) project is a Jisc-funded project which is working with partners (the Heads of e-Learning Forum (HeLF) and the Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association (UCISA))  to support institutions with the electronic management of assessment.  Source: ema.jiscinvolve.org See on Scoop.it - Blended Learning Lab The post Electronic Management of Assessment appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

Children, growing up with YouTube, Netflix and Spotify, learning to use smartphones or tablets before they are able to talk Source: www.theguardian.com See on Scoop.it - Digital Literacies The post six-year-olds understand digital technology better than adults appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

The various levels of Bloom’s (Revised) Taxonomy are pretty well known to most teachers at this point. The gradated levels of critical thinking allow teachers to build lesson plans and identifylearning outcomes that are appropriate for the level of exploration of material for the students at that time. A useful way of understanding how to put Bloom’s into [...] The post The 6 Levels Of Bloom’s Taxonomy, Explained With Active Verbs appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

I have been thinking about some "new" items I could add to my original Digital Citizenship Kit that I created last year.  Like I said in that blog post, I love using props when teaching.  Source: comfortably20.blogspot.ca See on Scoop.it - Digital Literacies The post The "New and Improved" Digital Citizenship Survival Kit appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

Although there is often a direct relationship between a method of teaching, a learning theory and an epistemological position, this is by no means always the case. It is tempting to try to put together a table and neatly fit each teaching method into a particular learning theory, and each theory into a particular epistemology, [...] The post Choosing teaching methods for a digital age appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

We have always known that a picture is worth more than words and this is especially proven well in case of e-learning. Making use of graphics, games, designs will surely stimulate the nerves connecting the eyes to the brain and it has been seen how visual designs are not just mere decoration but impacted learning [...] The post How Visual Design can Optimize eLearning appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

The Blended Synchronous Learning Handbook is the primary output of the Blended Synchronous Learning Project. It includes the summative findings of the Blended Synchronous Learning case studies, a Blended Synchronous Learning Design Framework, and a range of other resources and information to support blended synchronous learning design research and practice. Source: blendsync.org See on Scoop.it [...] The post The Blended Synchronous Learning Handbook appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

With the spreading use of computers and mobile technology in schools, going digital with student portfolios has become more popular. Simply put, digital portfolios are online collections of student work. They allow us to archive, curate and analyze samples of student learning from both the past and the present and keep that data — literally [...] The post The power of digital student portfolios appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

Anyone who has been in the classroom for some time knows that assessment for learning and assessment of learning don’t always have a clear distinction while we are engaged in instruction. The teaching/assessment cycle ebbs and flows, based on learners’ needs and our responses to their needs.   The same concept can be applied to [...] The post How Do Digital Portfolios Help Students Learn? appeared first on Patric Lougheed.