Putting Passion into Practice: Incorporating Technology in a School Counselling Office
Where do you go from here?.. Career Exploration with High School Students
One aspect of my job as a high school counsellor is to help my students reflect on what they may want to do after high school. I personally remember feeling very apprehensive as a student about which jobs were out there and how people actually found their careers.…
MOOCs: Continuing my Journey of Life Long Learning
Let it snow!
Not quite a course, but more than a conversation
Coming soon: A good, draft design for opening up my Winter quarter course #msloc430 . And I’m going to ask for feedback (as in, would anyone participate?). I am at that point where I need to put structure to the whole event and see what people think.…
Glow Blogs Phase 2
We have just announce the hope that phase 2 of the Glow Blogs project will go live sometime in January next year. This is a wee bit later than our original plans. Personally I am not too disappointed as I can see how hard the team across the Scottish Government and Code For The People (as was)1 are working.…
Faculty Spotlight: Fall 2014 Faculty Research Grant Recipients, Part 1
We are going to spend the next several weeks spotlighting the recipients of the Fall 2014 Faculty Research Grants. Get to know these distinguished faculty members below!
University: Louisiana State University
Title of Proposal: A Comparative Look at Community, Connectedness, and Learning within the Online and Traditional Face-To-Face Environments
Bio: Dr.
Academic Partnerships Announces Fall 2014 Research Grant Recipients
Nine Faculty Research Projects from Seven Universities to Study the Impact and Effectiveness of Online Learning
Academic Partnerships (AP), one of the world’s largest representatives of online learning, today announced that it has awarded nine grants to researchers from seven universities to study the impact and effectiveness of online learning.
Patterns and Algebra
As part of learning about algebra, students created their own patterns and then worked towards finding the rule (equation) that would allow someone to build a larger step of the pattern.
While students were given the choice of drawing or building (for example with lego) their pattern, Minecraft proved very popular.…