The opinion mill may be churning–some sources suggest infographics are dead, while others say we should move on to more appealing “story-telling agents.” But don’t yet discount their place in the classroom. Regardless of their web trend status, infographics’ ability to visually present complex data has stood the test of time.…
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Loading...I am sitting in a hotelroom in Pittsburgh, after two days of visits to the ETC and preparing for a meeting with the film department at Point Park University today. I’ve came here with since the Norwegian Film School has been looking at starting a programme in Games and interactive stories together with the Media Technology programme at Gjøvik University College.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...One of the courses I teach at Montgomery County Community College is the MOS Certification. I have several students who work diligently on their new workforce skills through college-level training programs. I’d like to share a story about one of my students who spends 25 hours a week honing his skills — 4 of these hours were spent in my Monday night class.…
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A stereogram courtesy of the Boston Public Library: http://flic.kr/p/4zNi8E
The New York Public Library recently introduced one of the niftiest tools I’ve seen on the web in a while. It allows you to take “stereograms“, those side-by-side images that look almost exactly the same and when viewed together create a sense of depth, and turn them into animated GIFs.…
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Last week, my students shared their first Genius Hour Projects. It was a hectic week because it was the last week before Spring Break and there were several other projects happening at the same time.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...ETMOOC is finishing up next week, and I’m about to leave town and be very sleep deprived for the next 3-4 days or so, so this is kind of my last hurrah for ETMOOC. I was trying to think about how/why my experience in it has been so important, so much so that I’m very sad it’s nearly over.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Sounds like a nifty jingle doesn’t it??! ….and look….they all begin with the letter “C”…. makes me go hmmm…I wonder why all these different topics begin with the letter ‘c’….
Anyhow, in my travels working on the blog my learning partner Leslie and I have started for our professional learning project, I wondered if we needed to add some kind of ‘license’ to our super awesome blog hardylocalfoods. …
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This week is finals week, and I presented to our college board of trustees about my experience with professional development that I did this summer. It was called the Innovations Academy (IA), and this presentation was part of my commitment to help see this become a permanent offering on campus.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...During one of the Twitter chats for the ETMOOC topic on “The Open Movement – Open Access, OERs & Future of Ed,” Pat Lockley Tweeted this:
#etmchat – most of github is now unlicensed, I think we are moving into a post-license world
— patlockley (@patlockley) March 7, 2013
We were talking about sharing our educational or other work, why some people find this difficult, the difference between “open access” and things being open in a wider sense, and more.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I thought a lot about it…what does it mean to me?
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