Of course, Karen. Go ahead and use it. I am looking forward to reading your blog post.
I created "this" as a community badge and I'll be very happy to see more people use it.…
Canada one
We are on the road this morning to Canada. Our first stop is Roanoke Virginia.…
On Learning, Testing, and Being Tone Deaf
There are plenty of reasons to believe that multiple-choice and true-false tests are among the worst ways to measure whether learning is successful; in the best of circumstances, they tend to measure only the lowest levels of learning achieved, and in the worst of situations they leave respondents without any acceptable responses from which to choose.…
Speaking of Early Learning
I must say the last few weeks have been an adventure in learning for me; not to mention, my learner. Two year olds can be fun, intriguing, and very unpredictable.
The last few weeks have been awesome in getting my 2 year old into a learning mode. …
Hi Natasa – I'm Karen Carlson, I'm taking …
Hi Natasa – I'm Karen Carlson, I'm taking the second cycle of ModPo right now and loving it as much as you did. I'm doing a blog post about the class, and found your "This" while hunting for Emily art – is it ok if I use it?…
Event report: ALT-C 2013
Last week I attended the 2013 Association for Learning Technology Conference (ALT-C) which was hosted at the University of Nottingham. Alongside hearing about some fantastic projects it was a great opportunity to catch up with the people I’ve met since I started my first role as a learning technologist four months ago.…
Pedagogy and Backwards Course Design – Week 3 – POT
Image attributed to Lisa Norwoord, Flikr http://www.flickr.com/photos/lisanorwood/902062212/
I love this image. Not only was I looking for an image to describe design thinking “backwards” but the person in this picture is instinctively doing what we are not supposed to ever do – walk into a fire.…
Storytelling, TVSZ and what I learned this week by being a zombie.
This past week on Headless 2013 we’ve been discussing storytelling,the arc of stories and Kurt Vonnegut’s idea that stories have a shape. Well, I loved both the infographic and the video of Kurt Vonnegut discussing the shapes of stories. I had never thought of it that way but as soon as you do, you can completely see it.…
ds106 Week 4 Audacious Audio
Week 4 is all about experimenting with sound by listening, creating radio bumpers, and stories using sound effects. Here are two radio bumpers I created for #ds106 Radio using Garage Band.
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