I recently started another online course about how to teach online. This act usually is followed by more blog posts, as I try to make sense of my learning, but so far this hasn’t happened. The first week stimulated the usual flurry of enthusiasm and creative thought. …
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Loading...Like many of my #etmooc colleagues I am suffering from an excess of information. I have been gorging myself on blogs, and twitter feeds; following interesting links, watching YouTube videos, seeing and hearing stories about what it means to be literate in a digital world.…
(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”. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...This was my first reaction to the current topic focus in #etmooc. I couldn’t imagine how digital storytelling fits into the academic milieu. In fact I suspected that there is a lot of resistance to digital stories as a pedagogic method. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...During the Dave Cormier session last week, Alec Couros used these words to describe etmooc: ”we all decided to walk through the same door on the Internet so we could think together.” And think we do. And chat. And share.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...During the Dave Cormier session last week, Alec Couros used these words to describe etmooc: “we all decided to walk through the same door on the Internet so we could think together.” And think we do. And chat. And share.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...From the moment I discovered that #ETMOOC had started, I signed up and started to explore the new online community. Within hours I felt totally engaged and felt an inner spark, being fanned into a raging fire—a fire to learn and apply my learning to my current work challenges.…
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I like to keep things simple even in the midst of apparent chaos..so I am picking three words to describe what I want to focus on in this MOOC: community, communication, and transparency.
Community–building a sustainable network for learning and personal growth
Communication–how to encourage and support engagement through multiple tools and techniques
Transparency–making learning visible, sharing motives without hidden agendas
Tagged: #ETMOOC, connected learning, online communication, online community, PLN, self-directed learning.…
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