Day late, dollar short. Story of my life. I’m just recovering from a bout of the flu and am late to the ETMOOC party. Today I’ve spent no less than 4 hours surveying, taking notes, and in general, trying to get organized to participate in the ETMOOC. …
#etmooc An Ed-Tech for Me
#etmooc An Ed-Tech for Me
Social Curation Socially
During a recent workshop on using Instructure’s Canvas, we were discussing the web services that you can integrate with your account – things like Google Docs, Twitter, Delicious and Diigo. In looking at the list of possible integrations, one attendee asked, “What’s Delicious?”…
learning 4 lyfe!
I’ve sifted through bits and pieces of the #etmooc universe, sporadically over the last couple of days. I managed to miss all of the synchronous sessions this week – but next week I will fully jack in to the flow of the #etmooc learning network.…
Joining #etmooc to Connect and Learn
I finally took the plunge and joined #etmooc! I have been watching the course grow and evolve online for a few years now but I had never actually jumped in and signed up. I was always worried that I didn’t have the time (still a bit worried about that) but after successfully completing my first MOOC in 2012, I feel like it’s time to give this a try.…
Learning so much
I am learning so much that I can’t begin to keep up even with this blog but I think I will go for shorter posts and maybe that will work.
Last night I had the opportunity to attend the session in Blackboard led by Sue Waters. …
Noam Chomsky: “Independent thinking comes through discovery”
Dr. Chomsky’s comment (in the video below)about the nature of graduate school – participatory, and inquiry based – has me once again wondering why elementary can’t be more like that? Classical education used to be that… what happened in-between to generate so much emphasis on content acquisition, accountability as data generation, and questioning as answering?…
Sharing and Inspiring
Sue Waters’ Learning Through Blogging post got me thinking about the purpose of bloggging. There has been some discussion going on around me about this, since three of my colleagues and I are participating in the #etmooc and blogging through EDCI515 with @_valeriei. …
Introduction to Me!
I did have full intents of making a video or some other interactive introduction however, with finals coming up, my time has been stretched thin and I am left with just text and picture. So, here it is! (You can also find this same info under the “About Me” tab.)…