I am a graduate student at UMass Boston and am participating in the ETMOOC along with three other graduate students. Our participation in ETMOOC is twofold: one as an ETMOOC participant, and one as a MOOC voyeur. Together, my fellow colleagues and I are examining not only the content of ETMOOC, but the impact of the MOOC frontier in general and the opportunities it holds for further exploration.…
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Loading...What is failure? Many of us are taught, from a very young age, that failure is the opposite of success. Whether it be when we struggled on an algebra test, or lost a city championship game in baseball. Or maybe you don’t like the career you chose, and you want to do something else but everybody tells you that its too late and you’ll have to start over.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...A while ago I signed up for #etmooc (http://etmooc.org/ ) to gain ideas to further my own teaching. I have recently been reading many entries on the etmooc hub (https://etmooc.org/hub/) around Personal Learning (PLNs PLEs etc) and thought I might take a few minutes to reflect on my own personal learning.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...One of the suggested #etmooc tasks for this week’s topic of digital storytelling is to make an animated GIF. I’ve never tried created a GIF but I’ve been very interested in testing it out, especially after watching the the ”How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the GIF” session with Jim Groom.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I participated in Wednesday’s etmchat. I’m getting better at watching the tweets fly by, stopping to read some, skimming over others. It’s a test of brain power. As I get older, I keep reading about doing activities that keep the brain flexible.…
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For the topic digital storytelling in ETMOOC one of the assignments was to make a GIF. Below this text you see the result of what I made. For the people thinking but isn’t a GIF something that is moving, you are absolutely right.…
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So Tuesday’s Daily create on DS106 was to make a film of my favourite line in a movie. I decided to take Ken and Barbie out for a stroll again but I had a problem. Ken has no clothes and I didn’t have time to go shopping for a trench coat ( I was thinking ‘Casablanca’).…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Guest post authored by Renee Mandelbaum, adjunct faculty member at Harry S. Truman College in Chicago Once considered non-traditional, unconventional, and even trendy, social media has certainty infused itself into many different spaces in our institutions of higher education. Many colleges have developed sophisticated blogs to invite the next generation of college students to […]
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Personally, one of my primary goals for the ET MOOC is quickly becoming a need to (re)construct my daily learning. I want to think of the engagement in ET MOOC, and the engagement beyond ET MOOC after it’s officially completed, as a part of my daily routine.…
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Peter Meyer’s post Research Roundup: Innovative Digital Books You Should Know About in 2011, first sparked the idea that it might be possible to create some sort of digital story. While I aspire to something like Welcome to Pine Point, the reality just now is Digging Up Romans.…
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