So #ccourses this week has asked the question why do I teach? And the answer is: Do I still teach? I am an instructional designer now rather than a face to face classroom educator. And I’ve never taught at a university, though I do teach adults.…
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Loading...I recently started another online course about how to teach online. This act usually is followed by more blog posts, as I try to make sense of my learning, but so far this hasn’t happened. The first week stimulated the usual flurry of enthusiasm and creative thought. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Well, Tuesday January 14th was like old home week as the ETMOOCers gathered around our twitter feed (#etmchat/#etmooc) and chatted about what we had accomplished since starting ETMOOC. Quite a buzz! Some people described it as a high school reunion!…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...2013 was a productive year that saw quite a bit of professional development and new thinking, highlighted by traveling, where I made new colleagues, and attending the Google Teacher Academy in Chicago. In reflecting on this year, +Eric Saibel has inspired colleagues who blog to share their most influential posts of 2013 for the #EdBlogs2013 series he’s collecting, and I’m honored to participate (read his own post here).…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I owe +Megan Valois (@msvalois) and +Karl Lindgren-Streicher (@LS_Karl) some gratitude for sharing their Sunshine posts with me a few weeks ago, and I’m happy to finally respond with my first post of 2014.
Here’s how Sunshine posts work:
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Hopefully, this post is the first of many in the coming year. After all, that is going to be one of my goals for 2014–write every day.
Professional Highlights of 2013
2013 was a year of change and growth, learning and stretching. …
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In a recent conversation on growth and professional development, I was surprised by some of the defensive ideas that came up in the discussion, namely, rejecting potentially valuable feedback, hiding failure, and playing it safe when setting goals.…
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Someone recently mentioned to me that “change requires giving something up.” At the time, I wasn’t sure how much I believed it, but after thinking about it for a week, I do now. Depending on what kind of change is being proposed, there’s a variety of answers to the question of what should be given up; but in more cases than not in education, based on what the conversations I’ve had, it’s the ego that’s at the center of this discussion.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...So I’m still in reflection mode about my own learning so you’ll have to bear with one more clmooc reflection. And it’s not really so much a clmooc reflection as it is a reflection about 2013 so far, my “mooc” year.…
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