Category archives: Didactics of Media

A learning diary - or as I call it here, a journal - is a good possibility to review what you've learned. Just by writing about your thoughts to a specific topic you are thinking about everything again and by that are somehow forced to remember. Since the current semester is almost over, I can […]

Actually I like e-learning. I have a quite big internet affinity. So of course I like using my computer and the internet for learning. But I have a problem how e-learning is done by many companies, organisations and different people. Like I already mentioned in the mobile learning entry, the whole e-learning area with all […]

Edutainment and game-based learning (GBL) describe quite similar approaches for learning. Edutainment is everything from documentations on TV to audio books for learning. GBL is somehow a subset of edutainment I would say. GBL is learning by playing. This method of learning is actually quite old. It started with so called serious games already before […]

I like the idea of mobile learning. It is great when you can do something meaningful for school or just enhancing some personal skills. I used to do some language learning the "mobile way". I put the audio files of a polish language course on my Mp3 player and listened to the sentences when I […]

Taking notes collaboratively with the help of the internet was interesting. Though, not very efficient as I think. At the beginning I had some technical problems with my network connection. So I couldn't take part in the collaborative note taking for the first 20 minutes or so. When I got my connection working again I […]