A common theme in early MOOC criticism was a linking of the MOOC to Gartner’s Hype Cycle.
Certainly, a lot of hype accompanied the MOOC…more hype than for any EdTech innovation in education history, and perhaps more hype than for any learning model (or even agent of change) in higher education history.…
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Loading ...Verena Roberts hosted an Open Education panel on Thursday that I watched live-stream with some of my co-workers. We missed the very beginning and end of the session, but it was still a great way to introduce them to the concept of open education and consider Google+ Hangouts could be used for webinars.…
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This was indeed life not too long ago. Until, perhaps, the “YOU” was inserted as a prefix to “TUBE”, among other advances.
In the ’80s, I recall watching Videodrome, primarily because my New Wave idol Deborah Harry of Blondie was starring.…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...I’ve written many articles in the past about learning and network building… and since mid January I’ve been part of an Education Technology and Media MOOC #ETMOOC where more than 1600 people are gathering on-line to share ideas about learning, digital story telling, on-line collaboration, etc. Continue reading
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...I’m not going to pretend that I remember enough about my high school physics to speak intelligently about the difference between centrifugal and centripetal forces, but I do know a good piece of teachable media when I see it. When you introduce a brick to a front-loading washing machine spinning at several hundred RPMs, you get something both destructive and magical.…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Topic #2 for etmooc is Digital Storytelling. In addition to creating digital stories, we were challenged to critically examine the definition of digital storytelling on Wikipedia. While I think the Wikipedia definition gets at some of the aspects and history of digital storytelling, some of my experiences with digital storytelling are missing.…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...I participated in an etmooc session about Digital Sotrytelling for K-12 hosted by Darren Kuropatwa yesterday. You can watch the archived session here, view Darren’s Slides and check out the session resources here.
During the session Darren had participants record 5 seconds of video and share it with him.…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Today’s Chicago Tribune Editorial titled “Protecting our Own” shows photos of six high profile killings since 1984. The editorial laments “we’ve been there before” and repeats “it will take more than new policing strategies”. It ends with “Chicago needs a new commitment to protect it’s own.”
I’ve been giving this message for over 20 years…, since 1992, when I formed the Tutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC) in the weeks following the killing of Dantrell Davis. Continue reading
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...While participating in Dean Shareski and Alec Couros’ ETMOOC sessions last week, the topic of over-sharing came up a couple times. From what I gather there are two camps on this topic. I Share, You Filter (ISYF) Too Much Information (TMI) I love the line, “why is everyone such an exhibitionist all of a sudden?” At [...]
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I’m sorry. For the life of me, I am unable to embed the actual video into my blog.
http://photopeach.com/album/cuabfs
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