2013 was a quiet year for the blog, well 2014 was even quieter.
However to ensure an element of continuity in the blog here are the top ten posts in 2014. What was interesting was that none of them were written in 2014, but all have been very popular articles over the past few years.
10. The VLE is Dead – The Movie
This was the recording from the ALT-C symposium on VLEs that took place in 2009. This debate was popular at the time, and even now is still used and linked to from various courses in teacher training across the world (well according to the web stats it is).
9. Ten reasons why Twitter will eventually wither and die…
Again back in 2009 I talked about how Twitter would, like so many other social networks, wither and die… well I got that one right didn’t I!
8. Keynote – iPad App of the Week
Probably one of my longest blog posts that explores the iPad presentation app from Apple. I used the post to help me to understand the app better and what it is capable of.
7. Can I legally download a movie trailer?
One of the many copyright articles that I posted some years back, I am a little behind in much of what is happening within copyright and education, one of things I do need to update myself on, as things have changed.
6. Educreations – iPad App of the Week
I was introduced to this app by a colleague at Gloucestershire College in 2012 and used it and demonstrated it a lot to staff. It was great to see how they and their students used it to support their learning over the year.
5. 100 ways to use a VLE – #89 Embedding a Comic Strip
This is a post from July 2011, that looked at the different comic tools out there on the web, which can be used to create comic strips that can then be embedded into the VLE. It is from my ongoing series of ways in which to use a VLE. This particular posting was about embedding a comic strip into the VLE using free online services such as Strip Creator and Toonlet. It is quite a lengthy post and goes into some detail about the tools you can use and how comics can be used within the VLE.
4. Frame Magic – iPhone App of the Week
I wrote about Frame Magic in 2013 and it is one of the many photographic and image apps I have used and reviewed.
3. Comic Life – iPad App of the Week
Though I have been using Comic Life on the Mac for a few years now I realised I hadn’t written much about the iPad app that I had bought back when the iPad was released. It’s a great app for creating comics and works really well with the touch interface and iPad camera.
2. VideoScribe HD – iPad App of the Week
I talked about VideoScribe HD in July 2013 and was impressed with the power and versatility of the app for creating animated presentations. Alas the app isn’t currently available.
1. The iPad Pedagogy Wheel
This was my most popular blog post of the year (and of all time on my blog). I re-posted the iPad Pedagogy Wheel as I was getting asked a fair bit, “how can I use this nice shiny iPad that you have given me to support teaching and learning?”. It’s a really simple nice graphic that explores the different apps available and where they fit within Bloom’s Taxonomy. What I like about it is that you can start where you like, if you have an iPad app you like you can see how it fits into the pedagogy. Or you can work out which iPads apps fit into a pedagogical problem.