From DSC:
Some reflections on “Hollywood meets higher ed“ — a thought-provoking post by Amanda Ripley
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But online classes are different than the in-person kind: Not only do they have a huge potential profit upside, given the ability to attract tens of thousands of students worldwide, but they are, at their best, performances.…
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Generally speaking, I’m usually good at learning the technical aspects of something. Learning the steps to making a great layup in basketball for example is easy, I can even put them together and do a technically near perfect attempt.…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...At the beginning of the school year, a teacher expressed to me that she had heard a very inspirational song and would love to have her class do something with it. Maybe, it could be used in a slideshow or some kind of presentation at a school assembly?…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...If we want to learn at a deeply significant and long-lasting level, we clearly need to keep re-walking familiar paths while remembering, each time we recreate those journeys, to look at them as if we’ve never seen them before this moment.…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...If you’ve yet to explore new tools for your online courses, now’s a great time to start. We’ve peaked in on some neat tools in these categories: Storytellers and Image Editors, Open Software Suites, Video and Movie Makers, and Audio Editors.…
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The title for this post comes from one of my students, who whispered it in my ear as she hugged me on the way out the door today. I had a wonderful time introducing the idea of Genius Hour to my students.…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...I am very excited to be introducing my students to Genius Hour this week! We are already participating in a special project called Entrepreneurial Adventure, run through the Learning Partnership. Because not all children were expressing interest in creating their own ventures, and I know that some ventures will need more and others less time to manage, I wanted something I could run parallel to the EA program.…
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Finding the time to create a six word story was harder than I thought it would be. I started with photos of coffee, as I have some friends who I haven’t seen in a while and my thoughts went to what could happen if we could happen to meet for coffee – those thoughts seemed to naturally head to vodka before settling on fireworks – there is a link but this is not the blog for that story.…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...All the posts, the tools and story starters this week have got me thinking about creativity; in fact in dialoging with Mary Lee Newmann on my last blog, I wrote in a comment, “I needed this lesson (all our discussion about digital story telling) to remind me how important it is to exercise our “creativity muscles”.…
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