One of the MOOCs that I enjoyed was “Web Storytelling” by Alan Levine aka Cogdog. Therefore, I decided to another presentation by Alan entitled “True Stories of Openness”. The title intrigued me because I thought the presentation was going to be more about open education in the form of the MOOC movement. …
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Loading...As I was watching people falling to the ground not from the sheer exhaustion and exhilartion of competing something I consider to be one of the greatest physical achievements but from a bloody bomb exploding right when they are about to cross the line simply broke my heart.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Aren’t silos evil. Just evil. That whole corn storing thing they do is just so unjust. Personally I advocate storing all corn in my cheeks like an agrarian hamster combine harvester.
Now I don’t need to worry what happens to the silo, and as I long as I don’t cough I’ll be fine…..…
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As I read, “I am a teacher and I am tired,” by a young teacher, I found myself remembering times when I was at the end of myself as a teacher and having to evaluate if I wanted to continue in education. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...A common theme in early MOOC criticism was a linking of the MOOC to Gartner’s Hype Cycle.
Certainly, a lot of hype accompanied the MOOC…more hype than for any EdTech innovation in education history, and perhaps more hype than for any learning model (or even agent of change) in higher education history. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I am assigned a section called “All the World is a Stage”. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Haiku Deck is the latest presentation software you’ll want to use. The free iPad app was designed by a Seattle startup team seeking to improve and “reinvent presentations for how we work, communicate, and create ……
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Here’s a graph showing some guy’s position as he’s out for a walk:
This graph shows the position of some guy out for a walk. Can you tell what he’s doing?
Take a moment and describe in your own words what he’s doing.…
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After having studied and reviewed the casa unit, vocabulary and worksheets, my Spanish 20/30 students were to create a Mi Casa project using: Pinterest or Movie Maker (You Tube)
It could be their true home or a fake one.
It has to contain the following:
Bathroom
Kitchen
bedrooms
Living room
Dining room
Label pieces of furniture
The house has to be labeled using the Spanish vocabulary that they had learned.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I’ve just listened to a TVO lecture by Eric Mazur, a well known physicist at Harvard University, in which he talks about the stop-motion photography that his lab is able to perform. While I like the magic of stop-motion photography as much as any, what really impressed me was his clarification of the remoteness of different space/time scales from our own.…
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