Just read a post by Kevin Hodgson, a 6th grade teacher from Western Mass, who I have come to know over the past four years by my participation in the Connected Learning MOOC.
In his post Kevin included this Storify, showing a conversation from a Twitter Chat held in July 2016.…
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Loading...Today I attended the UIC Urban Forum: Jobs and the Labor Force of Tomorrow and was actively Tweeting quotes until my phone battery went low. I took about 5 pages of notes, which I’ll draw from in future articles.
During the last of three panel discussions I created the sketch below.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Below is an archive of a Connected Learning #clmoc Twitter chat that took place last week. It was created by Kevin Hodgson, a middle school teacher from Massachusetts.
You can find this and other ideas submitted by Kevin and #clmooc members in this G+ community and this Facebook community.…
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This week the 2016 version of the Connected Learning MOOC is starting. Participants are encouraged to create a visual introduction, and share it with others on various social media platforms.
I first connected with this group in 2013 and repeated in the past two years.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...The first half of 2016 is behind us and the rest of the year, and our lives, is in front of us. What will we do with that time to help America and the world overcome the complex challenges we face?…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I started hosting Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conferences in Chicago in May, 1994, as part of a strategy intended to draw area volunteer-based tutoring, mentoring and learning programs and supporters together to learn from each other and as part of a strategy to increase public awareness of tutor/mentor programs all over the Chicago region, so that more would have the talent and dollars needed to sustain their work and constantly improve.…
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A few years ago the Heartland Alliance provided poverty data for community areas of Chicago, which enabled me to create maps showing this information, which I have shared in this pdf presentation.
Today they released a new set of data, showing poverty levels for every Illinois House and Senate district in Illinois.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Last Friday I attended a networking event hosted by Connect Chicago, where Street Level Youth Media and The Little Black Pearl showcased work they were doing with young people. Below is a video shown by Armand Morris, of Little Black Pearl.…
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My friend Terry Elliott, a professor at Western Kentucky University, saw one of my Twitter posts, in which I shared a link to the concept map at the left.
If you’ve followed my blog, you’ll recall that Terry and I met through a Making Learning Connected cMOOC, and exchanged some visualization ideas last July in this article.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...How many times have you read a book, or an article, and used your yellow high-lighter to mark up important passages, or used sticky notes to post comments? Or even written notes in the margins? I’m sure many of us have done this to support our learning and prepare for tests.…
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