Some professional learning
It’s been a few weeks. (Not that I haven’t thought of topics to blog about.) In fact, I’ve had some exciting professional growth opportunities of late. I’ve just started my Guidance Part 1 – my first face-to-face Additional Qualifications course in a few years.…
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Loading...With massive open online courses (MOOCs) at the center of hype, overhype, and plenty of justifiable criticism, a midterm review of one—the highly interactive Educational Technology and Media MOOC (#etmooc, organized by University of Regina professor of educational technology and media Alec Couros and others)—shows what a well-designed and well-facilitated MOOC can offer to learners with the digital literacy skills required to benefit from them.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...The borders between well-designed synchronous and asynchronous experiences are becoming increasingly indistinguishable. And that raises a fundamental question for all of us: in an onsite-online world where interactions travel rhizomatically, how do we as trainer-teacher-learners define, plan, and deliver a learning event or any other event grounded by a specific timeframe and centered around online meetings?…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Let’s begin exploring our quickly changing ideas about digital literacy by noting the various skills required to engage in a contemporary online learning experience: a live session (now available in an online archived version) on digital literacy/literacies led by Doug Belshaw for #etmooc, the Educational Technology and Media MOOC (Massive/Massively Open Online Course) organized by University of Regina professor of educational technology and media Alec Couros and others.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Fascinated by and immersed in Twitter backchannels and tweet chats, I’ve recently been assisting learners in the latest offering of our ALA Editions Social Media Basics course as they explore live chat sessions in a variety of social media platforms.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Newbie’s log–newbie date 31/01/2013…. 3:15pm CST retweets #ETMOOC invitation to Sue Waters’ session on student blogging 3:23pm CST gets help from Elizabeth (gentle nudging tweets) to get butt into Blackboard Collaborate session and start lurking 3:24pm CST gets more Twitter … Continue reading 
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(No Ratings Yet)Loading...After the #etmooc Blackboard Collaborate session Tuesday night with Alec Couros on Connected Learning, I started to think more about my PLN and the prompts that were suggested. How would I define my PLN – in words, in imagery? Being a visual person, I wanted to represent it with a graphic, so I started to think about the best way(s) to do that.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...One of the best thing, for me, was to experience being in contact with so many people around the world at the same time, in front of the same whiteboard and sharing ideas with each other. As a teacher, I started to see possibilities for my own classes.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...So I completed my first etmooc session today and to tell you the truth it was really fun! If you suspect a hint of surprise, you would be right. Having never experienced a MOOC before, even having read a little about it, I was unsure of what to expect. …
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