Science Fiction to Science Fact

Science Fiction to Science Fact, this article looks at some of the amazing developments from creative minds, to something you can pick up and use today. So what science fiction can you use today and potentially extend yourself? Merriam-Webster defines etymology as “Etymon means “origin of a word” in Latin, and comes from the Greek word etymon, meaning “literal meaning …

Precise vs Imprecise – Why study this in school?

Precise vs Imprecise. I was privileged recently to be invited to deliver some tutorials in Secondary School Physics. Bracing for the inevitable statement of “I’ll never use this in real life.” I wanted to have something prepared. In this article, I try to explain to my teenage self why I would study precise and imprecise subjects.   Some people really hate …

iFrames, the power and pain of a good idea

iFrames or “inline Frames” were first introduced in 1997. In over 20 years of use the technology industry used, praised, shunned and ignored iFrames. This article explores this wonderful technology and how it can be used in a very positive sense.   iFrames or multiple screens? Space is a premium for everyone.  From the macro to the micro.  However when …

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. …