One of the areas that has really caught my eye since we began ETMOOC is curating. I mentioned in the previous blog post that I had never really thought about curating but was going to investigate further. Well, I have started that process and while I don’t know if my mind is any clearer on how I personally want to curate I have started to look at some of the tools that were mentioned in the Introduction to Social Curating session.…
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Loading...I know that almost everything you find on the interwebs is true. But nothing I’ve found is more true than this:
This talk really resonates with me. Everyday, as I lecture in my community college classroom, I look into my students’ faces and see boredom, confusion, and an effort to just try to get through.…
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A couple of weeks through the Educational Technology and Media course #etmooc, and it seems like a lot of participants are learning and enjoying themselves. Recently though I have noticed some pos…
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(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Every time you take the risk to be true to your own soul – whether or not you name your action as heroic – your example helps others to do likewise. When you notice this pattern, it becomes easier to have absolute fidelity to your own path without fear that doing so is selfish.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I started to draft a comment to Caleb Kelly’s “Problems with Rhizomatic thinking in an Educational Context,” but it seems to have turned into this long post.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...So this was going to be a blog about player-managers, which I delightfully assumed was so much a football (NO, NOT SOCCER FOOTBALL) concept that I’d have to explain player-manager first. So I go to Wikipedia, and it turns out Curly Lambeau, who not only played for and coached the Green Bay Packers, but also founded them.…
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How does one carve a slice of learning at #etmooc ? After listening to this vlog and reading the conversation, I wondered about this Massive Open Online Course, and how just like in our classrooms, the learners have different styles.…
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LoVid live in performance – image from rhizome.org
Today I quietly took issue with the use of post-structuralist theory as a foundation for a learning model. Given the recent shift in philosophy, the so-called speculative turn, why are we returning to 1970s French theory?…
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“Metacognition is not something you plan into your schedule, but rather, something you do in your day-to-day teaching.” Guylaine Melançon, 2005
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“Metacognition is not something you plan into your schedule, but rather, something you do in your day-to-day teaching.” Guylaine Melançon, 2005
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