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Curation – Professional Learning Project – Part 2

Stacia Johnson and I have been learning independently and working together to formulate an understanding and practical knowledge of curation and curation platforms.  I ended my last post with these thoughts.

What are my next steps?  How will I engage myself in my inquiry?  

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Bloom’s Taxonomy Juli Style!

I had an exciting day yesterday at the Ferst Foundation charity luncheon.  The Ferst Foundation is an organization that supplies children in Georgia from birth to age 5 one book per month free of charge.  Each table at the luncheon was sponsored by a different group who decorated the table using a book theme. 
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Staying the Course: Connections, Reciprocity, and the Web

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Trying to sum up my experience in #ETMOOC is an impossible task. How does one begin to put into words that which is felt by the heart? Furthermore, how can a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) bring about such a feeling?

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Empowering Our Students: Strength Based Approaches and Self Direction

PROMOTING DEVELOPMENTAL STRENGTHS THROUGH RESILIENCY DEVELOPMENT

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A Strength-Based Approach is a positive psychology perspective that emphasizes the strengths,capabilities and resources of a youth. A Strength-Based paradigm requires precise shift in language language . Rather than focusing on “PROBLEMS students are encouraged to view challenges as opportunities to explore, take risks and discover solutionsOur Role as Adults in the School System is to Guide not Direct.…

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Enhance Course Quality with 7 Visual Design Tips

Effective design is vital in online learning because it’s what guides students to finding information, navigating a site, and even learning a subject. And designing effective layouts is something everyone can do with just a ……

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The Open Bubble

I’ve struggled to find anyone willing to pin down openness. Recently there was a delightful schism where the ambiguous and the literal went in opposite directions. As I said then, there is no great rallying cry for ambiguity. People of the world unite,  you have nothing to lose but your dictionaries.…

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Demand High

I am following IATEFL conference online. Today I watched Jim Scrivener‘s workshop on High Demand.

He started by asking what students usually complain about in their lessons and some of the answers were: “It’s boring, It’s too easy or too difficult, It’s too much work, There’s nothing new, It’s too slow, I want Grammar, The teacher doesn’t correct”

The, he asked: “Am I engaging the full human learning potential of the students in my class?”

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Project Based Learning

When I started writing this post I titled it “iBooks in Education” but then revised it to what you see above. The reason for doing so is that the excitement I have about iBooks is grounded in what it empowers students to achieve in Project Based Learning.…

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The Podium of Pedagogy!

When I started writing this post I titled it “iBooks in Education” but then revised it to what you see above. The reason for doing so is that the excitement I have about iBooks is grounded in what it empowers students to achieve in Project Based Learning(PBL) or Inquiry Based Learning(IBL), structured by an Understanding by Design(UbD) framework, empowered with current technologies.…

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syndicating 5358 posts from 517 #etmooc blogs