Do you have a success story to share with the online education community? We want to help you do that. Now Accepting Guest Posts for March At the Faculty eCommons, we’re devoting March to mobile learning. That means we want to hear how you’ve creatively integrated mobile technology in your online course.…
“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer it sings because it has a song”
“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer it sings because it has a song”
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Maya Angelou
An American author and poet. She’s published six autobiographies, five books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning more than fifty years.…
Playing with Storybird
Storybird (www.storybird.com) is a great website which enables you to select from an extensive range of beautiful images to create your own story. You can search for images by themes and then arrange them in order to tell your own narrative. …
MOOC diversification
An afternoon of brainstorming and here’s what we came up with…
Scheduled, regulated
This is the classic MOOC originated by leading US universities. A top down approach designed to closely mirror a university lecture course. The combination of a scheduled syllabus and various social networking technologies facilitate peer group learning and review.…
Learn everywhere #etmooc #ceetopen popcorn
In #etmooc and #ceetopen, we encourage collaborative learning by challenging each other to try building artifacts that demonstrate understanding.
Our #ceetopen participants (and my PLN buddies Scott Boylen and Denise Krebs ) recorded very short videos of where we learn and uploaded them to a dropbox from which a single movie was created.…
#ETMOOC A Language Learning MOOC – Thoughts & Vision « A Point of Contact
A Language Learning MOOC – Thoughts & Vision « A Point of Contact.
Exploring how to use connectivist mooc style learning for language learners.
I think the prospect of hastagging homework published online in the form of a digital story/learning artefact could bring learners studying from the same classroom material together to connect and interact together, is very exciting.…
Massimo, thanks for dropping by. I really like you…
Massimo, thanks for dropping by. I really like your music blog. Let's keep sharing.…
Sarah, I am glad you liked my metaphor. It came to…
Sarah, I am glad you liked my metaphor. It came to my mind while I was watching the video. As for this crazy multiple workshop project of mine, I agree it was madness, but I survived. …
Sneza, my friend, I am really glad you like my pos…
Sneza, my friend, I am really glad you like my post. I know your standards are high:) My next post will be very similar, but there will be digital stories in between. Only next time it will not be a crime story, it will be a little more scary.…
(Digital) Storytelling
So, I’ve been thinking about storytelling. I’m supposed to be thinking about it a little more than I actually have been, but I’m getting there.
I personally love a good story. I have an old friend who is an excellent story-teller.…