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Build your Responsive Open Learning Environment – Workshop at the PLE conference

Alexander Mikroyannidis — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:46:11 +0000

Would you like to learn about widgets and how you can build your personalised learning environment with them? Would you like to design your own learning widgets?

Join us at our interactive workshop in the PLE conference, on July 11 in Aveiro, Portugal. Participation is free if you register for the PLE conference.

More details are available here: http://projects.kmi.open.ac.uk/role/pleconf-workshop

Filed under: Technology-Enhanced Learning Tagged: E-learning, Personal Learning Environment, Portugal, ROLE, Technology-Enhanced Learning

Build your Personal Learning Environment

Alexander Mikroyannidis — Mon, 28 May 2012 19:18:45 +0000

ROLE project partners delivered a number of sessions in last week’s JTEL Summer School in Estoril, Portugal. Mine had to do with the use of ROLE tools for finding learning resources and building a Personal Learning Environment (PLE). Participants were introduced to the concepts of PLEs and Self-Regulated Learning and were enabled to understand how a PLE can be used to support them in their everyday learning and research tasks.

Here are my slides:

Filed under: Technology-Enhanced Learning Tagged: Estoril, JTEL Summer School, Personal Learning Environment, ROLE, Self Regulated Learning, Technology-Enhanced Learning

How can I become a self-regulated learner?

Alexander Mikroyannidis — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:48:21 +0000

If you’d like to learn more about Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) and how you can become a self-regulated learner, visit the new SRL course in OpenLearn. The course is free and enables you to use the tools developed by the ROLE project in order to apply the SRL principles to your own learning, as well as assess your SRL skills.

Filed under: Technology-Enhanced Learning Tagged: Education, Learning, OpenLearn, ROLE, Self Regulated Learning, Technology-Enhanced Learning

Gmail Tap: Who needs 26 keys anyway?

Alexander Mikroyannidis — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 19:00:26 +0000

Last year Google revolutionised emails with Gmail Motion, this year they went with Gmail Tap. Why bother with 26 keys, when you can just use 2 to type all your messages? Tap away!

Well, they sure know how to celebrate April fools’ day in Google

Filed under: Fun Tagged: April Fools' Day, Gmail, Gmail Tap, Google, Google's hoaxes, Morse code

Social media trends in 2012

Alexander Mikroyannidis — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 09:08:38 +0000

What will be the major social media trends in 2012? According to this article, smartphones and tablets will play a significant role in the development of new services on the Social Web. We’ll also see the following trends:

More social media into corporate websites

An increase in social media usage on mobile devices

An increase in personal support

An increase in social media budgets

More social media advertising

More social gaming

News will be increasingly social

More websites will be compatible with mobile devices

More election campaigns will be run in social media

Your social media footprint will grow

Facebook users will surpass 1 billion

Filed under: Social Web Tagged: Facebook, Internet Marketing, Social media, Social Web, Twitter

Santa’s new helper

Alexander Mikroyannidis — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:39:41 +0000

Christmas eve is coming soon, the busiest day of the year for Santa Claus
But this year, Santa has got some extra help!

Merry Christmas!

Filed under: Fun, Technology/Internet Tagged: Apple, Christmas, iPhone, Santa Claus, Siri

Free online course about Responsive Open Learning Environments

Alexander Mikroyannidis — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:57:26 +0000

What is a widget? What is a Personal Learning Environment? How can I start building my own Personal Learning Environment? If you’d like to learn the answers to these questions, then visit our new course about Responsive Open Learning Environments. The course is free and also available for download, reuse and republishing.

Filed under: Technology-Enhanced Learning Tagged: Education, Personal Learning Environment, ROLE, Technology-Enhanced Learning, widget

Steve Jobs

Alexander Mikroyannidis — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:01:53 +0000

An amazing person. A beautiful mind. He’ll certainly be missed.

Filed under: Misc, Technology/Internet Tagged: Apple, steve jobs

I am not a robot. I am a unicorn.

Alexander Mikroyannidis — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:47:00 +0000

Conversations with chat bots can be quite amusing. Their intelligence hasn’t yet evolved to a point where they would fool us to believe we’re talking to a human being. What would happen though if a bot had a conversation with another bot Cornell’s Creative Machines Lab tried just that. The result is at least surreal:

Filed under: Technology/Internet Tagged: Bots, Chatterbots, Communication, Conversation, Cornell's Creative Machines Lab, Technology/Internet

ROLE widget contest

Alexander Mikroyannidis — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:51:26 +0000

The ROLE project (Responsive Open Learning Environments) is organising a Widget Enchantment Contest. Build a widget using ROLE technologies, make it available through the ROLE widget store and win a prize worth 500EUR

The contest will run till July 15th and the winner will be announced on July 31st.

UPDATE: The contest has been extended till August 31st.

Filed under: Technology-Enhanced Learning Tagged: ROLE, Technology-Enhanced Learning, widget