Just finished undermining my students learning

So another semester is finished and I submitted my grades. not sure if that is a good thing or not. My biggest quandary is what to do with a student that earned a B+ on his final worked on the collaborative exams but turned in very little class or home work.…

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pre and post-test mortem

Well the end is near several of my students have already taken the final, and now I am depressed. While most of the students did better on the final than on the pretest (as they should) two have done worse(?)! Now I admit the final is tough, but still shouldn’t all the students gain some … Continue reading

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The Infographic Resume

So today I was reading the #ETMOOC Assignment 3, defining digital literacy, and stumbled upon Visualize.me. Thank you Doug Belhsaw, for providing a link on your site. Visualize.me creates an Infographic resume based upon your Linked.in profile. Now i think this may be the coolest thing I have seen all week, it would have been all … Continue reading

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Six songs of me

After reading Amy Burvall Six Story blog post I had to try the Six Songs of me site. This project allows for great soul and memory searching . Thinking way back to the first song you ever purchased or what song do you what played at your funeral.…

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Digital Storytelling – Six Word Story

The Six Word Short Story by Ernest Hemingway?

 

ETMOOC has assigned digital storytelling a la ds106. And the first challenge I am accepting is the Six Word Story which is based on this possible Hemingway story While mine can not compare to his kind eloquence here they are:

News organization belittles American male audience

Travelling with family, happily all survived

Suprisingl, Educational Technolgy is not IT

Digital storytelling is harder than it looks

High school escape the final countdown

When doves cry, let’ s go crazy (I was listening to Prince at the time)

Well that is all for now.…

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Connected Learning and the Introverted MOOC-er

So I have been pondering my latest #ETMOOC blog challenge for almost 6 minutes now on Connected Learning.

If people are looking for ideas to write about, I’d like to take this opportunity to once again share the blog prompts that were mentioned in the Introduction to Connected Learning presentation.

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New iPass

So apple sent out this press release yesterday.

My initial reaction was “What a giant waste of money!!” I mean you can buy 4 Chromebooks and give them out to students.

I realize that a Chromebook doesn’t have a touchscreen (yet) or a Retina screen, but they do have USB ports, a real keyboard and 320 GB of storage.…

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Technology, How do I love thee …

No tech day

Well to be honest I don’t always love tech.

I use it frequently to teach my class , train others to use it in their class, expect my student to use it for their assignments and exams, help others with their issues with it and even play with my kids with it.…

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ETMOOC Introduction Assignment

OK so I am Sanford Arbogast. I work at Middlesex Community College and have been training faculty to teach online since 1999.  I made this YouTube video telling you more about myself and what I do.

As for what I want to be when I grow up … that is best summarized by Nickelback.…

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