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Theorizing Storytelling

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THEORIZING STORYTELLING

Digital storytelling is yet another means to construct our realities though narrative. Here are some of my thoughts on storytelling, and one could simply add the adjective ‘digital’ to the word ‘storytelling’ when employing web tools to create narrative.…

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Old McLiteracy had a #MOOC

…a #metaliteracy sing-a-long to the tune of Old McDonald’s Farm: here a literacy there a literacy everywhere a literacy, (meta)literacy, (trans)literacy…(multi/ple)literacies…eieieo

[Caveat: this post recycles blogged notes and reflections from the Trans/Meta units of CMC 11, version 1.0.…

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Behind the Scenes of Academic Partnerships’ First International Partner

Faculty eCommons

Academic Partnerships International (API) “develops global student recruiting capabilities through partnerships with international higher education institutions.” Now partnering with approximately a dozen international institutions, API’s first international partner is Colombia-based Fundación Universitaria de Ciencias de ……

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Nurse Ratched’s Digital Nips and Tucks No More! – Week 2’s #ds106 Reflection

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
McMurphy (Personal Cyber-infrastructure) VS.
Nurse Ratchet (Public Ed Infrastructure)
Week 2 in #ds106 was tough because life got in the way, but nevertheless I learned how to make GIFs using some of my favorite movie scenes, and I managed to learn so much from Gardner Campbell through the assigned videos and article.
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Nurse Ratched’s Digital Nips and Tucks No More! – Week 2’s #ds106 Reflection

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
McMurphy (Personal Cyber-infrastructure) VS.
Nurse Ratchet (Public Ed Infrastructure)
Week 2 in #ds106 was tough because life got in the way, but nevertheless I learned how to make GIFs using some of my favorite movie scenes, and I managed to learn so much from Gardner Campbell through the assigned videos and article.
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Congratulations to the Academic Partnerships Research Grant Recipients!

Faculty eCommons

Academic Partnerships (AP), one of the largest representatives of public universities’ online learning in the United States, announced that it has awarded nine grants to researchers from eight universities who will be studying the impact ……

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How to Create Open Badge Criteria – Using Competencies

m101 Learning Pathway – Badge Criteria Project

Verena Roberts – UBC MET

September 2013

Are Open Badges the future of Accreditation?

Problem: What is does a competency based assessment framework for the UBC m101 badges look like?

This report is a descriptive overview of how I developed the criteria for the m101 badges.…

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#Udacity teams up with Google, AT&T & other tech giants for #OpenEducation Alliance

#Udacity teams up with Google, AT&T & other tech giants for #OpenEducation Alliance:

Udacity and other massive open online course (MOOC) providers may have mixed support among academics, but the Palo Alto, Calif.-based startup sure has a lot of allies in Silicon Valley.

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Moving to Japan and Reflecting on Compassion

My day of compassion

 

On Friday September 6th,2013 I attempted to complete my day of compassion. For this project I will refer to compassion as the sympathetic consciousness of others’ distress together with a desire to alleviate it (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/compassion

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syndicating 5358 posts from 517 #etmooc blogs