Hi All,

Here are 101 Open Educational Resources (OER) visualized to spice up your learning and teaching:

http://www.slideshare.net/zaid/101-open-educational-resources-presentation

Have fun exploring :)

Warm Regards,

Zaid

Hi All,

Here are 101 Free EduGames to spice up your learning and courses:

http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2008/08/101-free-edugames.html

Got any others to add :)

Have a great day learning and discovering :)

Warm Regards,

Zaid

Dear All,

I have updated my list of free learning tools, and made it more visual:

"Let's explore the idea that there is at least one excellent free learning tool (or site) for every learning problem, need or issue! Here are 101"

http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2008/08/101-free-learning-tools.html


Have a great day learning and hopefully you discover a new tool or two :)

Warm Regards,

Zaid

Hi All,


I just want to let you know that I published my first (free) ebook (The Scribd way!) a couple of days ago:

eBook: http://www.scribd.com/doc/4545960/69-Learning-Adventures-in-6-Galaxies

Blog post: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2008/08/69-learning-adventures-in-6-galaxies-my.html

Title: 69 Learning Adventures in 6 Galaxies

A collection of 69 learning nuggets (articles) from ZaidLearn compiled into an ebook. This ebook is divided into six learning galaxies (or themes), which are: Learning, Teaching, Stories, Free e-Learning Tools, Free Learning Content and Free EduGames.

Have a great day learning :)

Warm Regards,

Zaid

Hi All,

I just want to share with you my latest learning adventure entitled '10 Secrets to Great Teaching':

Part 1 (10 min):
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7247058817399539977&hl=en

Blog post: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2008/07/10-secrets-to-great-teaching-part-1.html

Part 2 (20 min):
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2406253023381279030&hl=en

Blog post: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2008/07/10-secrets-to-great-teaching-part-2.html


Presentation Slides (SlideShare):
http://www.slideshare.net/zaid/10-secrets-to-great-teaching/

Please feel free to share these links with others, and hopefully we can get more educators to really think about their own teaching. Yes, it would be great to also link up educators and facilitate deeper discussions on what it takes to facilitate effective learning in the 21st century.

Whatever response, let's have fun (or fall asleep) with these learning resources shared :)

I am still learning!

Have a great day learning :)

Warm Regards,

Zaid

Dear Erin Freeman,

Thanks for the great feedback. I knew there was something really important that I kind of missed out (with the exception of 'Laugh' at oneself, which was mentioned). And you just hit the bulls-eye with the sense of humour and having fun. Although, I was thinking of it while developing the presentation, it never really came out :)

If I eventually write a paper about the '11 Secrets to Great Teaching' , 'FUN' (and sense of humour) would surely be one of these secrets :)

Again thanks for the mind awakening feedback :)

Have a great day learning :)

Warm Regards,

Zaid






Erin Freeman wrote:
> Wow! I am feeling very inspired. I agree with all of the 'secrets' to great teaching. Although I am not convinced that everyone has the potential to be great teachers. I believe that teaching is an inherent skill. In particular the passion for teaching. I know a lot of 'good' teachers but what they are missing is that passion to be all they can be and more, I am not sure that this can be taught.
> I also think that having a sense of humour and having fun is incredibly important. Thank you for an engaging and thoughtful presentation.
>
> Erin Freeman
>

Hi All,

Just want to share an interesting OCW/OER compilation post I did the other day, which you might find useful.

This post is about smashing all free University learning related OCW and OER resources and collections discovered into an all-in-one quick-to-access/find juicy compilation.

URL: http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2008/06/university-learning-ocw-oer-free.html

It would be interesting if others could share with me repositories to add to the list, or any feedback would be wonderful (positive and negative) :)

Warm Regards,

Zaid

Dear Phil Cook,

that sounds great :)

Hopefully, they will benefit from it.

Also, you should perhaps consider posting the list of 101 Free Learning Tools, too:

http://www.slideshare.net/zaid/101-free-learning-tools-presentation/

It has already been embedded in several sites :)

Have a great week weekend learning :)

Warm Regards,

Zaid


Phil Cook wrote:
>
> Thanks for posting this Zaid. I am forwarding your blog post onto new faculty at my school. I am sure they will find it a wonderful resource.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Phil Cook
>