Lesson Planning – Part 1

As an active and committed member of  iTDi, I read lots of awesome posts about how educators approach lesson planning, especially in the English for Teachers‘s course available at iTDi; so I though it was high time I tried to post how I plan my lessons. 
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Curated Learning Networks

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Silly Learner, iPads are for Creation Too!

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Week Two #etmooc Goals

Pretzel Art by Tony Stanczak, former student

Goals for #etmooc, reviewed:

As I embarked on this journey in #etmooc , I asked these questions:

  1. Given the access, technology, resources, and requirements available to me, how can I create a classroom world reflective of what my students need in the future that is theirs?
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Learn everywhere #etmooc #ceetopen popcorn

We learn everywhere…

In #etmooc and #ceetopen, we encourage collaborative learning by challenging each other to try building artifacts that demonstrate understanding.

Our #ceetopen participants (and my PLN buddies Scott Boylen and Denise Krebs ) recorded very short videos of where we learn and uploaded them to a dropbox from which a single movie was created.…

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An Adventure — Digital Story Collaboration #etmooc #ceetopen

 

How do you create an adventure story? You invite your Professional / Personal Learning Neighborhood to join in on the fun!

Inspired by Digital StoryTelling #etmooc number seven (Choose Your Own Adventure), I adapted the idea and invited my friends, none of whom I’ve ever met!…

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Five Card Story

Five Card Story: Of Lights and Shades

a Five Card Flickr story created by @datEnglish


flickr photo by Serenae

flickr photo by Intrepidteacher

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flickr photo by Serenae

From the window of my jeep, not far from the road, three alien creatures on the top of a huge rock were pulling up a bundle, that I could see.

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Best Connectedness Video by@thecleversheep #etmooc #ceetopen

Build your Personal Learning Neighborhood

How? Learn from @thecleversheep

This presentation of Seven Degrees of Connectedness by Rodd Lucier @thecleversheep is the best introduction to connectedness, to taking a risk and starting to build a Personal/Professional Learning Network (or Neighborhood) I have seen.…

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#etmooc Digital Story Telling Experiment: Animated GIF!

I haven’t ventured into creating my own content for an animated gif just yet (I’m still tossing around ideas), but I thought I’d try making a gif of an awesome video with music by the Zurich Chamber Orchestra.

I love this video because of how perfectly the staff syncs with the music and how the animators chose to highlight the drama of the music with the intensity of the rollercoaster.

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