Until today, I didn’t have a better/easier mind mapping platform than Bubbl.us, which has been around since 2007 (and has stayed mostly unchanged). Now I have MindMup, which is both better and just as easy. Really great integration with Google Drive too!…
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Loading...This is a wonderful summary of how to Gamify PD. It is inspired by one of my favorite experts on the subject, Philip Vinogradov. I would love to learn/think more about how “leader boards” affect a group of adults that aren’t used to them within more traditional games.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...As I am working on something very similar right now for teachers and leaders in DPS, I thought this post was a wonderful introduction to the concept. It also provides a great template in Google Drawings to get started with creating the visual side of the badge.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...In January I signed up for BLOG-A-MONTH where I get to read some great blogs from inspiring educators, and I get to write a lil’ something too and have it read by the hard-working, inspiring members of the group. It keeps my blog writing skills honed and also provides me with the motivation for the educational reflection that I have sought on this sabbatical abroad. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Let’s assume, then, that writing a work of some kind—I’ll stop short of calling it a book—about Rhizo14 calls for a different kind of rhetoric, a rhizo-rhetoric. What would such a rhizo-rhetoric look like? That’s a great question for me, and I’m hoping that the Rhizo14 community will help articulate some answers to the question, but I still want to create some pockets of resonance and sound some …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...This is about what MOOCs could be if we let them. It is about learning. It is about us. All of us, individually and together.
…The MOOC of One I want to talk about the MOOC of one.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Note: I will use this space over the next month to share excerpts from my dissertation The Evolution & Impact of the Massive Open Online Course. The research was a Delphi study bringing together 20 MOOC experts to discuss the MOOC in educational, political, and sociocultural terms (slides from the oral presentation can be seen here).…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I have found searching on BuzzSumo to be highly useful for finding the latest information being shared around your social networks. Since there is no such thing as “catching up” on your reading, the best I can do is learning with others.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...This is a really great presentation and video that finally got me to understand the ways in which you would create and use pivot tables. Thanks, Alice Keeler.
How to Create a Pivot Table to Summarize Student Information | Teacher Tech
…Pivot tables are an incredibly powerful tool for summarizing information.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I’m really intrigued by the deeper learning that can happen when the learning process is iterative, as it is in these explorations. This open source project was initiated by Google, so there may be more development afoot. I’m particularly keen on the idea of adaptive questions and co-creating these explorations.…
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