…“… ten years ago, not one student in a hundred, nay, one in a thousand, could have produced videos like this. It’s a whole new skill, a vital and important skill, and one utterly necessary not simply from the perspective of creating but also of comprehending video communication today.”
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Today is our Centre for Teaching and Learning Retreat day… we don’t normally set aside one whole day at this very busy time of the year but we are starting off a year with a larger team, a strategic initiative (College e-learning strategy which focuses on blended learning), and a focus on transforming teaching and learning practices.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...With this comment, Vance Stevens of the Webheads group announced that the Podcast from the August 26 discussion on volunteer recruitment is now available for others to listen.
Dan Bassill does some remarkable work bringing his past business experience and present passion for improving the lives of disadvantaged kids in Chicago through his tutor mentor programs, and the mechanisms he sets up for that are interesting, instructive, and relevant to communities of practice which rely on the cognitive surplus of like-minded volunteers.…
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image from articulate.com. see discussion there
Before any good discussion begins, everyone needs to be on the same page, using the same meanings for the same terms, or at least understand the differences. In the lead-up to the start of mobi.mooc…
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Acompanho com interesse uma serie de postagens do Steve Wheeler.
Enfim, tudo que gira em torno da Educação do futuro a mim interessa.
Em sua primeira postagem o autor nos chama a atenção para o fato da grande disponibilidade de conhecimento neste nosso mundo digital e nos interroga em como será a sobrevivência das instituições universitárias.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I just came across this article on the divergence of American English in the Great Lakes region. I’m not familiar with the dialect, but its vowel system is apparently diverging from standard American English more quickly than other dialects; cf. words like cot and caught with different vowels, unlike in my own dialect.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I led an informal discussion about volunteer recruitment on Sunday, Aug. 26 in the Webheads Elluminate forum. The recording can be seen here.
This discussion was focused on learning ways educators and non profits are recruiting and utilizing volunteers as tutors and/or mentors in school and non-school programs throughout the world.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Excited for the New 2012-2013 School year!
It’s the end of August, my classroom is set up and I am ready to go! There are still a few more days of my teaching holidays, but I am so excited for this new school year.…
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This MOOC, like Change11, covers a whole academic year. It covers many topics realted to managing and teaching in an online environment. I hope to use it to shape my courses as I move more of the activities and content online from the classroom.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Late August is a busy busy time of the year in education. There is lots of hustle and bustle to get courses, spaces and technology organized for the start of the new year.
Yesterday I recieved a pretty typical request by email for some help that at first appeared to be about how to make better use of our college LMS (Learning Management System).…
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