Monthly Archives: December 2019

Languageizer using a browser’s SpeechSynthesis

Languageizer is a tool available on the WhereWeLearn platform. https://wherewelearn.com/forfun/languageizer-options.php Languageizer uses modern browser technology to help in the learning of languages by combining basic word lists with a browser’s SpeechSynthesis. It uses the fundamentals of speaking a language and modern browser technology to provide a free language learning tool.   Current Languageizer and Language Projects on WhereWeLearn N.B. These …

QR Codes or Quick Response Codes and Training

QR Codes or Quick Response Codes bring technology content into the physical world.  Yet how can you use them for training? Having worked in a strict governance environment for years, finding ways of reminding people of governance was always challenging. Navigating through piles of documentation to find the one relevant paragraph in a timely fashion is even harder. QR Codes …

Mindful Writing: Reimagining Role Plays

Mindful Writing is a new approach and tool which addresses a common learning challenge presented to educators when moving role plays to an electronic format. I recently had to address a challenge around Role Plays in an eLearning and distance learning environment. The standard solution was to video tape the interactions and put the entire recording of the video in …

Democratisation of Learning

Democratisation of Learning In a presentation recently a learned scholar dropped the phrase a true “Democratisation of Learning”. I wanted to better understand the expression’s application from an academic perspective and  how it applied to the work I was presenting. Firstly the term it is not the study of Democracy but instead the principles of democracy as applied to learning. …