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Blogging Expectations

Blogging Goals: Communication, Trust, Respect, Courtesy, Integrity, Scholarship, Self-Discipline

The blogging experience is, as I’ve said time and time again, an opportunity where the walls of my classroom disappear and the students begin to engage – as both writers and readers – in a medium where they find comfort – the virtual landscape.  

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Telling or Teaching?

I picked up this 1937 Teachers Quarterly for a $1 at a market over the summer. It was really for a bit of a laugh to read and look at how much had changed.

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But I was a little surprised to see that after all these years, educators are continuing to send the same messages.…

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Gif Cam on Raspberry pi

I’ve got my raspberry pi working as a webcam posting gifs every 9 minutes and stills every 5. Gif Cam.

The pi has been sitting around for a while acting as a web server with a broken tweetbot. It took very little effort to get it taking photos from our window and showing them on the web.…

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Quality Matters Monday: Standard 5.1

It’s Quality Matters Monday! Each Monday, we highlight a Quality Matters standard and review its importance in an online course and how we evaluate this
standard.

Today, we are reviewing Quality Matters Standards 5.1.

General Standard 5 addresses course activities and learner interaction to meet the learning objective goals.

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Agile Education: Not Necessarily an Oxymoron

Of all the adjectives applied to education, “agile” would seem to be a sarcastic choice. Education is typically about as agile as an elephant. However, coming from the business and software development fields, “agile” may be just the adjective and philosophy that education needs.…

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DirectLinks: Better link copying

Bookmarked DirectLinks on canisbos.com

Download DirectLinks
This extension circumvents certain techniques used by Google and Facebook to track link clicks.
When you click a link in Google search results, Google uses JavaScript to replace…

Bookmarked DirectLinks on canisbos.com

Download DirectLinks
This extension circumvents certain techniques used by Google and Facebook to track link clicks.

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Online presence?

The more I think about Schoology the more I am feeling… limited… by the platform and privacy restrictions. The global audience is the motivating element behind digital publication and when it is taken away so is that spark.

I am of course going to continue my Schoology trial.…

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What should really come after the words “congratulations you are having twins…”

What should really come after the words “congratulations you are having twins…”

18 years ago I got to experience such a moment – but not quite like that. In my instance it was during my first ultrasound for my first pregnancy, part way through the procedure the ultrasound tech stopped what she was doing and said she would be right back.…

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syndicating 5358 posts from 517 #etmooc blogs