Tag Archives: layering

Hypothes.is revisited

I have been writing about layering services since 2015 and continue to encounter new services and increased interest in the capabilities layering offers. Layering is the term I have tried to use to create a category of online services. There … Continue reading

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Questions and studying

The “testing effect” is one of the most reliable tactics for improving the benefits of study behavior. This tactic involves the use of some study time to attempt to recall information to respond to questions. This is sometimes called “retrieval … Continue reading

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Pick 3

K12 schools have already started or will start very soon so suggesting key online services educators should be familiar with is probably a little late. I agree, but I just encountered this list (50 Web 2.0 sites for schools) and … Continue reading

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MoocNote for annotating video

MoocNote is a tool (web based or Chrome extension) for adding time-stamping annotations to online video. Educators could use MoocNote to add comments, questions, or links to videos students are assigned to study or could be used by a student … Continue reading

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Layering explained

Layering is a term I have been using for some time to describe a category of online services that educators can use to extend existing online content to make this content more effective. This video (created using Loom) explains this … Continue reading

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Layering for video lessons

A couple of popular edtech bloggers (Byrne, Ferlazzo) have just put up posts explaining how educators can develop interactive lessons for online learning making use of existing video sources. I have been writing about this topic for several years explaining … Continue reading

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