After all – all these proposals are very much headed in the same direction. Plus others could also chip in too.

This is my entry for the elearnr.org domain.

Last year I started compiling elearning tips on a blog at school – http://olchfa.org.uk/blogs/elearning/. While I didn’t achieve my original target of one a week, I do have a plan for one a fortnight this year, with the first three already written. As the time available to me for 1:1s has dropped from four hours to one per fortnight this year these are going to be even more important in getting elearning ideas shared around the staff.

While a few of these will be specific to olchfa, many will be of use to the wider education community as a whole, and it is to this end that I propose to use elearnr.org – posting these tips and guides on a regular basis.

I hereby promise that I shall use the domain in a way beneficial to the educational community and not for financial gain.

I would be interested in the edte.ch domain. My blog http://tbarrett.edublogs.org has been on Edublogs for over 3 years now. I have been looking for an opportunity to develop it further and this could be it.

I am passionate about how technology can support good teaching and inspire great learning opportunities – although the domain will change, the purposes of my blog will remain the same.

I will continue to:

> Document the innovative use of online learning tools in the classroom.
> Explore ways to use games based learning.
> Offer support and guidance on the best ways to implement educational technology.
> Chart the progress of multi-touch devices and the ways they may impact on learning.
> Explore my ideas for using wider edtech to support learning.
> Continue to explain what it takes to drive educational change on a classroom and institutional level to a wide community of educators.

I know that you bought those two domains with the same purpose and motivation in mind. I can guarantee I will be able to continue in the same vein.

I hereby promise that I shall use the domain in a way beneficial to the educational community and not for financial gain.

I’m impressed by your efforts. My attempts to de-clutter usually end up with me saying, “I can’t believe I kept that for eight years and _now_ I need it.”

If you can’t find a taker for elearnr.org I’d be happy to take it over, keep the content and, hopefully, add to it as I do my blog (http://feeducation.blogspot.com) or my tweets (twitter.com/tonygurney).

Good luck,

Tony

P.S. Of course, ‘I hereby promise that I shall use the domain in a way beneficial to the educational community and not for financial gain.’

With that in mind, I would be happy to take over the domain and site for you, ensuring that your material stays online, to support teachers now and in the future.

‘I hereby promise that I shall use the domain in a way beneficial to the educational community and not for financial gain.’

Mark

My idea would be to create a magazine style site that reviews and recommends applications of technology for the purpose of teaching and learning.

It would be a space for leading practitioners to demonstrate task based learning projects that have successfully incorporated technology, and give step by step guides to how teachers can adapt these ideas to design their own task based projects.

The emphasis will be to move away from explicitly discussing the technology being used, but instead to encourage the teacher to consider the desired learning outcomes or content knowledge and outline a variety of approaches to developing technological knowledge.

The overall aim would be to cater for a wide range of abilities and begin drafting a framework for how we can all develop our TPCK ‘technological pedagogical content knowledge’ (Mischra & Koeler 2006)

It would be a central place for sharing all the wonderful ideas I get on Twitter, and make them available to the lay technological user, whom has reached the stage of opening a Google reader account and subscribing to this site. These users often have different Internet habits (especially compared to me) so their contact time will not really suit a platform such as Twitter at the moment.

My particular interest would steer towards building cross curricula links with the Modern Language department and developing an international outlook supported by effective use of technology.

The main focus will always be you “the PLN” on Twitter, so my proposed idea is open for critique.

‘I hereby promise that I shall use the domain in a way beneficial to the educational community and not for financial gain.’

Richie?Laurence

Mishra, P., & Koehler, M. J. (2006). Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge: A new framework for teacher knowledge. Teachers College Record. 108(6), 1017-1054.