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. …
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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...At ISTE this past June, I picked up Steven Johnson’s Where Good Ideas Come From (reading notes here) and, after his fantastic keynote address, looked forward to reading it. After just finishing it, the book didn’t disappoint, leaving me with quite a bit to think about on the verge of beginning a new academic year.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...One of my favourite parts of #etMOOC was our time exploring open learning. @cogdog (Alan Levine) collects stories of open learning and sharing here. It is a concept I am committed to, and my own personal stories of open sharing are dear to me.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Thanks to a bit of extra free time over spring break, I finally had some time to read Daniel Pink’s Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, since I’ve been lately thinking about the sometimes tenuous relationship that faculty have with professional development (PD. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...MOOCluhan: Using McLuhan to understand MOOCs — from computinged.wordpress.com by Mark Guzdial
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“Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn’t know the first thing about either.” — Marshall McLuhan
When I first heard this famous quote from McLuhan, I was insulted. …
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It’s not unusual for a science fiction television show to spin off a video game. What is unusual is linking the show and the game together on an ongoing basis, with plot elements and characters from each crossing over to the other.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...All the posts, the tools and story starters this week have got me thinking about creativity; in fact in dialoging with Mary Lee Newmann on my last blog, I wrote in a comment, “I needed this lesson (all our discussion about digital story telling) to remind me how important it is to exercise our “creativity muscles”. …
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I finally had the chance to do some catching up in #etmooc and watch David Cormier’s session on rhizomatic learning. Lately I’ve also been doing a lot of reading on gamification and educational games, and it struck me that these are two completely opposing approaches to teaching.…
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I’ve been thinking about this “Choose your own adventure,” and “curating multiple paths to learning” that Ben Wilkoff suggests in his Learning is Change series. My response is this:
Choose A Motivating Environment #etmooc from Sheri Edwards on Vimeo.…
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