A powerful light shines in the dark. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The mysterious forces of the universe never cease to amaze me. As doors close, windows open. Once, in a relationship crash of my twenty-something years, my father – who thinks pragmatically like any true businessman – tried to comfort me with “don’t look at this as an obstacle, rather, look at it like an opportunity!” …
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Loading...What’s going on inside the building of Bishop Carroll is not only exciting, but innovative, educational and engaging. Not only are the halls of Bishop Carroll High School buzzing, but inside the offices of several educators learning is taking place.
Bishop Carroll High School is a part of the Canadian Coalition of Self- Directed Learning.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Where decision need to be made, values are present. Values play a signficant role in the design of courses and learning experiences. As a way to reflect upon this fact, I pulled out a few definitions of instructional design and began to explore the role of values. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...This evening I participated in my first large-scale Twitter chat as part of #etmooc, (which, if you haven’t been following, is a great online educational technology professional development experience).
The conversation summarized some of the topics we’ve been talking about for the last week, such as introducing ourselves, acknowledging our PLN (professional learning network), how/what we share, and how we contribute to the learning of others.…
(+1 rating, 1 votes)Loading... (No Ratings Yet)Loading...If you’re unfamiliar, MOOC stands for Massive Open Online Course. It’s a free online collaborative course that large numbers of people can sign up for. It’s kind of like World of Warcraft for education, only it’s free and you replace killing with learning (I recommend a proper explanation from the guy who helped coin the term.).…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Ok, here goes: I’ve been signposted to ETMOOC (http://etmooc.org/) by my colleague Richie Dunk (http://richiedunk.com/), with the suggestion that I might be interested. I’ve had a look, and he was right. I think ETMOOC is a great opportunity to become involved in a deeper discussion of educational technologies and I’m hoping to be able to share ideas, improve my practice and gain ideas on how and when different technologies can be used within lessons.…
(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...Tonight in #etmooc, the appropriately-named educator Dean Shareski, @shareksi talked about the importance of teachers sharing.
Were it not for sharing, our jobs would be infinitely more difficult. I’m grateful for the mentors who have shared lessons and ideas with me.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I’ve been reading Elizabeth Ellsworth’s article “Why doesn’t this feel empowering? Working through the repressive myths of critical pedagogy.” This paper is about Ellsworth’s experiences teaching a course called “Media and Anti-Racist Pedagogies” in 1988 at UW-Madison. Ellsworth says, about the role of dialogue in critical education, “Through dialogue, a classroom can be made into a public sphere, a locus of citizenship in which ‘students and teachers can engage with the process of deliberation and discussion aimed at advancing the public welfare in accordance with fundamental moral judgments and principles…Dialogue is offered as a pedagogical strategy for constructing these learning conditions, and consists of ground rules for classroom interactions using language.’”…
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