Hopefully, this post is the first of many in the coming year. After all, that is going to be one of my goals for 2014–write every day.
Professional Highlights of 2013
2013 was a year of change and growth, learning and stretching. …
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Loading...“To address the most important issue first: there is no such thing as digital storytelling. There’s only storytelling in the digital age. . .Digital is not the difficult part in digital storytelling. Storytelling is.” ~ Jasper Visser
After developing and facilitating a digital storytelling exploratory course for middle schoolers for nine years, I am rejoicing in the fact that digital tools have been getting easier and easier to use.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...As an instructional technology specialist, educator, and avid technology user, I am always on the look out for free applications to use. I have been specifically interested in finding FREE online ways to create and share slideshows and video. One of the activities we were asked to do as a final “summary of learning” was to create a reflection artifact of our #etmooc learning experience.…
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Well, look what arrived at my home, yesterday, the hardcover copies of my dissertation! I was actually surprised at how thrilling it was to see my work published in such an official manner. As I opened the cover and looked inside, I was most struck by the copyright page.…
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According to the literature on collaboration, connectivism, community-building, and adult and transformational learning theories, and guided by the philosophy of Freire (1970), who stressed that learning is a social act and that dialogue is the heart of education, ETMOOC was successful because it provided participants a community built on trust, challenge, self-direction, relevance, and passion.…
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In my final reflection on #ETMOOC Topic #4: The Open Movement – Open Access, OER & Future of Education, I am going to focus on OER. …
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After reflecting on the sessions I participated in, viewing the archives of the sessions I couldn’t participate in, reading blog posts, and skimming Storifys of #ETMOOC Topic #4: The Open Movement – Open Access, OERs & Future of Education, my brain is once again in a state of jumbled awesomeness. …
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In my final reflection on #ETMOOC Topic #4: The Open Movement – Open Access, OER & Future of Education, I am going to focus on OER. According to Wikipedia, open educational resources (OER) are:
……freely accessible, openly formatted and openly licensed documents and media that are useful for teaching, learning, education, assessment and research purposes.
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After reflecting on the sessions I participated in, viewing the archives of the sessions I couldn’t participate in, reading blog posts, and skimming Storifys of #ETMOOC Topic #4: The Open Movement – Open Access, OERs & Future of Education, my brain is once again in a state of jumbled awesomeness.…
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I watched the last ETMOOC Topic 3 Digital Literacy – Information, Memes & Attention webinar “Who Owns Your Education Data? (and Why does it matter?) by Audrey Watters last night. Audrey opened the session by saying that she hoped to drop a few ‘THOUGHT BOMBS‘ in our heads about who owns our data. …
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