The new iOS WordPress app editor is so much better than before. I am not sure when this happened.
It is a vast improvement on the older version that I looked at before, much simpler and a reasonable WYSIWYG experience.
The only useful feature I can think of that is missing would be an in app image resize to upload photos quicker on poor connections. …
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Loading...I have the pleasure of facilitating a pre-conference workshop at the Cal State University LA Symposium on University Teaching. My thanks to Beverly Bondad-Brown, Cat Haras, and Adrienne Lopez at CSULA’s Center for Effective Teaching and Learning.
I’ll be talking about how to get your students thinking in expert-like ways by using peer instruction (“clickers”).…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...…I would say that it might be worth rethinking “comments” on student blogs altogether – or rather the expectation that they host them, moderate them, respond to them. See, if we give students the opportunity to “own their own domain,” to have their own websites, their own space on the Web, we really shouldn’t require them to let anyone that can create a user account into that space.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Woermann and Cilliers posit four mechanisms that reinforce and promote the critical attitude: provisionality, followed by transgressivity, irony, and imagination. To my mind, mechanism is an unfortunate term, as none of the four seem mechanical; rather, I would call them heuristics, having more to do with experimentation in contact with the real, as Deleuze and Guattari say it, than with a device…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...The Online Learning Consortium (OLC) has published a new infographic, Keeping Pace with the Changing Face of Online Learning. It illustrates the key trends currently driving the infusions of online learning in the higher education industry.
We feel it’s a very exciting time to be in higher education and keeping pace in this digital age is an essential component.
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Like anyone with any sense I read Alan Levine’s blog religiously. It has given me more ideas to think about and play around with than any other site on the Internet.
The other day I read Share Images By Email to SPLOT Collector (this post is now well down the post list as Alan blogs like a manic).…
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(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I think I should say something about what I mean by the term ethics, especially as distinguished from morals. In fact, I do not distinguish much between ethics and morals; rather, I follow what Bruce Weinstein says about the distinctions between the two: “[J]ust about everyone understands that both ethics and morality have to do with identifying right conduct and good character.…
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Over the years I’ve been very keen on Creative Commons and using CC material in blog posts by pupils.
Pupils (and adults too) find attribution difficult.
Back in around 2008-2009 I made A flickr CC search toy aimed at pupils, to help them attribute.…
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It is Open Education Week 2015 this week! In light of our focus on globalization and open courses, this is the perfect time to celebrate and learn more about open education. Join us as we engage in discussion and participate in various events that are taking place across the world.
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