You may have read my previous posts about scammers using my personal photos to construct fake identities for the purpose of entering into online romantic relationships with women and defrauding them out of money or goods. If not, here’s the original post which outlines the problem and here is the followup.…
DT in the Latin Classroom
Now that I’ve working more with design thinking and have learned how powerful of a mindset it can be for creativity and innovation, I’ve been trying to infuse it into my Latin classrooms. It’s not always easy to move through the entire design thinking process in a Latin course, but I believe it can be done—and done well—in at least a few ways.…
Glow Blogs What Just Happened, What is Next?
Last Friday at the same time as the glow authentication changed, the new glow blogs service went live. I posted about this over on Glow Connect.
It was pretty exciting stuff, the developers were really working right up to the last minute and beyond to deliver the service.…
A Background for Studying Prepositions in Rhizo14 Auto-Ethnography
I picked up the idea to work with prepositions in the Rhizo14 auto-ethnography from the book
Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time (1995) by Michel Serres with Bruno Latour. A discussion of how this idea emerged in the conversation between Serres and Latour will clarify, I think, why the prepositions appeal to me so much.…
Connected Courses MOOC (#ccourses) and #oclmooc: Communities Dealing With Violations
A great reflection on living and learning in our online communities
Originally posted on Building Creative Bridges:
We shouldn’t be surprised when we discover that our communities—onsite as well as online—are less safe than we expect them to be.
Wikispaces for Glow
Photo credit: WIKI by Kevin Baird, on Flickr Creative Commons — CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Along side the blog migration for Glow I’ve been working on the wiki procurement. Wikis were part of the services added to Glow in 2010 (AFAIR) along with blogs and forums.…
The MOOC revolution did not take place.
The din of the MOOC world continues unabated, vacillating between the MOOC continuing its march toward Valhalla and the MOOC as a dying revolution in need of last rites. The multiple personality disorder of MOOC coverage is most evident in last week’s tech-business articles about MOOC company Udaicty.…
8 Lessons Learned from Teaching Online
Educause recently published a video list of insights comes from experts in the field of online teaching. Here is a collection of 8 lessons that might improve your online course!
Click here to view the video’s original post.
About Educause
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cMooc Stories
Wednesday was the start of The Open and Connected Learning Mooc and our entry event was a joint event with the PostEtmooc Community. I hosted a hangout with the PostEtmooc community where they shared their experiences and advice for participating in a cMooc.…