Working out loud: leveraging other networks
Recently, I’ve been talking to dozens of people about career insurance – how working out loud can help them shape their reputation and control their career. In almost every conversation, people were unsure of how to build a purposeful network.
Ed-Tech and Media MOOC Invitation
While many of you who find yourselves here may already been in the loop on this, I wanted to take the opportunity to invite readers who may not be yet to participate, lurk, or test the digital waters of an open online learning experience being offered by some of my internet colleagues in the new year.…
Infuencers to Brand Advocates
Ron Fredericks writes: LectureMaker was on scene March 17, 2011, as the video streaming provider for this episode of “Think Influence” held at San Francisco’s BrightTALK office.
Simon Gerzina was the producer for the event. He gave me and my camera crew a fantastic learning experience, as we supported him during the event.…
Maths@RSC 2012-12-18 00:29:11
Check out the Algebra video on the Student Creations page below.…
Time to Mourn
I’ve felt sick since I heard the news. I have so much to say but I can’t get it out. And if I wrote what I’m really thinking, it’d likely come out like the Onion’s coverage of the massacre.…
#Mooc.ca
Ho letto su Google+ il post di Downes col quale comunica di aver realizzato il sito Mooc.ca, luogo preposto a ospitare notizie e informazioni relative a MOOC. Mi sono iscritta alla newsletter per seguire la cadenza di marcia sulla teoria della comunità MOOC di MOOCs, nuovi annunci MOOC e notizie su MOOCs.…
Friday’s Finds: December 14th Edition
When teams begin to work in matrices, collaborating across functions and geographies, the skills, behaviours and competencies required for work must also change. This is what I heard yet again this week in a networked learning webinar that I attended.…
Collaborative Planning
Throughout my time as a faculty of education student (this is my third year in a concurrent program), I have seldom had the opportunity to co-plan with colleagues. This is a reflection based on my experience co-planning a grade 5 Arts infused Social Studies unit with three other Teacher Candidates for a university course.…
Will William Jennings Bryan Keynote TED 2013?*
*This isn’t about hologram technology, though that would be pretty sweet.
Seems that TED is a bit upset that some of its TEDx offshoots aren’t properly vetting speakers on the basis of academic rigor or sound research practice:
Critics take issue with TEDx talks that have featured such topics as touch-healing the brain, rebirthing, crystal therapy and nonsense math.…