E-tivities, 2nd Edition

Resources for practitioners 15 More intelligent e-tivities

As you get into the swing of developing and running e-tivities, you may want to start to look at them more creatively. But try to avoid making them longer! Instead, start to think of putting the pieces together. This is one way to view the term ‘intelligence’: to mean the use of wisdom, insight, intuition and experience (MacGilchrist, Myers and Reed, 2004) I’ve borrowed from MacGilchrist et al.’s ideas in The Intelligent School for the list that follows.

Here are some ideas to stimulate your thinking about e-tivities:

Contextual intelligence Think about your e-tivities in relation to your wider community, your discipline, your department, your school, your learning outcomes and your latest ...