Needless to say, that there is such a thing. Many of the people I work with are inundated day in and day out with technology. From their phones, to doing grades, to simply teaching a class. Everything revolves around some sort of “gadget.”…
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Hi! Welcome to my humble blog. I’ve been reading blogs for many years and been threatening to start a blog for about that long. But I’ve always found reasons not to do it. Most of the time the reasons were either that I didn’t have the time or that I didn’t have anything of great value to post.…
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With thanks going out to Ross Dawson for his recent tweet on this.…
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This morning I listened to the archived introduction to blogging webinar hosted by Sue Waters. I’m a fan of Sue and the amazing work she’s done with educational blogging, so I knew the discussions would be worthwhile, even though I suppose I’ve been “introduced” to blogging awhile ago.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Last night, I participated in my first ever Twitter chat. My opinion: it was…..to be nice….different.
I found it really hard to follow what was going on and the general thoughts of the threads that were being posted and, as a result, did not post anything to the chat (but I did either retweet or favourite one comment….it…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Before I start this blog, I have to tell you I am ripping off the title of a book that I want to read. When I heard Sherry Turkle discuss her book, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Eachother, I put it on my list.…
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http://magnificentoregregious.blogspot.com/2011/09/girls-just-want-to-have-fun.html
Though I am participating in an exciting learning experience called #etmooc until the end of March (check out my #etmooc blog), I still want to continue exploring the topic of the purpose of education. Having written the previous sentence, I feel I sounded like the boring economics teacher from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off…the purpose of education, anyone?…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Further Evolution of MOOCs with Academic Partnerships and MOOC2Degree Launch…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I’m finding that whatever I have the enthusiasm to contribute is accepted so readily among my ever expanding PLN. I am finding the joy in contributing my support, my alternate opinion, my questions and my heart. So what will I contribute to ETMOOC?…
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I get to think through PLNs in a new way. Instead of being nodes in a network, I would encourage us to be people in a neighborhood. And rather than demonstrating the far reaches of our network, we should be introducing one another to the "locals".…
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