On October 11, 2013 the DECA students at Dauphin County Tech School hosted a dress down day in support of the Muscular Dystrophy Association. According to the MDA, the site acknowledges DECA as “the most important social-business partner.”…
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Loading... (No Ratings Yet)Loading... (No Ratings Yet)Loading...The Retail Marketing and Sales students visited Cabela’s on Tuesday, November 19, 2013. The students were given a presentation on the history of the store, the marketing strategies, and even went a tour of the facility.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Over a year ago, more precisely on March 9, 2012, we were having this class with my student. We were beginning to deal with Storytelling. So, I surfed the net and found an interesting activity, very guided and inspiring to do at this starting point.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I presented my dissertation literature review at the Sloan International Conference for Online Learning on Wednesday at 12:45pm at the Swan & Dolphin Resort at Walt Disney World. Several technological glitches threw me off-point, and the topic was expansive by design (perhaps too much), but attendees were positive and responsive to the presentation.…
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Dr. Melissa Kaulbach, Vice President, Academic Services and Dr. Heather Farmakis, Director, Academic Services presented “A Galaxy of Professional Development” today at The 19th Annual Sloan Consortium International Conference on Online Learning – and it was a success!
Drs. Farmakis and Kaulbach with one of our esteemed partner faculty members – Dr.
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The PLN Pitch
A personal learning network for higher education
*Here is my own final learning artifact for Northwestern University’s Seminar Exploring Personal Learning Networks
*And my collaborative final learning artifact for Northwestern University’s Seminar Exploring Personal Learning Networks
*Useful information here: Exploring PLNs Collaboration Tools
At the end of the the five week online seminar, we were given a case to consider….…
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In the interactive webinar below, academic services director Michelle Pacansky-Brock shares how you can use VoiceThread Mobile to create engaging anytime-anywhere learning environments with voice and video participation. Through real-life examples, stories, and demos, Pacansky-Brock demonstrates how VoiceThread increases community, connectedness, and trust among students and their instructor.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...“Cognition” is another word for “thinking”. Metacognition, then, is thinking about your own thinking. Cynthia Brame at Vanderbilt’s Center for Teaching has this terrific quote by John Flavell in her post, Thinking About Metacognition:
…I am engaging in metacognition if I notice that I am having more trouble learning A than B.
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