The Pros and Cons of my ISTE Experience

an #etmooc participant blog post published on November 5, 2015 at 6:08 am
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You know how Jimmy Fallon has his pros and cons lists for The Tonight Show?

Well, here is my list for my ISTE 2015 experience

Pro:
Spending time with like-minded educators around the world. A while ago I blogged about how I love twitter because instead of just being able to collaborate with the teachers in my hallway, I was now able to collaborate with amazing teachers everywhere!

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The Power of 1 on 1 Conferences

an #etmooc participant blog post published on October 12, 2015 at 8:56 pm
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I am in my third, and final, year as a Faculty Associate at SFU. During this time 20% of my year has been teaching at the elementary level and 80% of my time has been working with Student Teachers on campus or in their practicum classrooms.

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Everybody gets a whiteboard!

an #etmooc participant blog post published on October 2, 2015 at 5:11 pm
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One of the key findings about How People Learn is that teachers need to draw out and work with students’ existing knowledge and skills. Ken Bain, in What the Best College Teachers Do, emphasizes students need to encounter a safe environment to try, fail, get feedback, and try again before facing a summative evaluation.…

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Working with a diverse group? Try a card sort.

an #etmooc participant blog post published on July 29, 2015 at 7:07 pm
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Education technology? Yep.

I went to a day-long retreat where the participants, about 20 of us, were deliberately selected to represent a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, and expertise – all the stakeholders in big project. The retreat organizer suggested each person prepare a 5-10 minute presentation about what they’ll bring to the project and what they’re hoping to get out of it.…

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Space to make ideas your own

an #etmooc participant blog post published on July 23, 2015 at 9:47 pm
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Helen Crump caught my attention earlier today with her reflective post Literacy: Not a desk job, but an identity job. It’s a great story reminding us of the connections between literacy, identity, learning and teaching. And then I learned there is more to the story.…

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The Web and Ed We Want via Justin Reich

an #etmooc participant blog post published on July 9, 2015 at 3:50 am
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Justin Reich’s recent Berkman Center talk – “The Web We Want and the Ed We Want” – is a great, actually entertaining tour through the recent history of the web and the parallel narrative of the web and education. I am posting it here as a note to myself.…

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Designing for open #TWP15

an #etmooc participant blog post published on June 7, 2015 at 6:33 pm
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I want to attempt to address two questions posed as prompts for week 1 of Teaching with WordPress: What can you do in the context of open that you couldn’t do before? What’s your biggest challenge in designing for open? Both of those questions meet me right where I am at, at this moment in […]…

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Part II: Popping the lid off of #msloc430

an #etmooc participant blog post published on April 20, 2015 at 2:22 am
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The Winter quarter session of the course I teach – MSLOC 430, which explores enterprise social networks (ESNs) and their impact on work and learning – ended a month ago. It was my first attempt to pop the lid off of the course by designing some ways in which both the enrolled, on-site graduate students […]…

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Hello, my name is Prof–, no Doc–, no, ugh.

an #etmooc participant blog post published on April 8, 2015 at 7:29 pm
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I have the pleasure of teaching a course at UC San Diego called “The College Classroom.” It’s a course for graduate students and postdocs about teaching and learning in higher education. Sometimes it’s theoretical, like when we talk about constructivism or mindset, sometimes it’s practical, like when we talk about various evidence-based instructional strategies, and sometimes it’s extremely practical, like what to do and say on the first day of class of the course you’re teaching.…

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Teaching students to think like experts – CSUgrit Symposium

an #etmooc participant blog post published on March 13, 2015 at 5:19 am
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I have the pleasure of facilitating a pre-conference workshop at the Cal State University LA Symposium on University Teaching. My thanks to Beverly Bondad-Brown, Cat Haras, and Adrienne Lopez at CSULA’s Center for Effective Teaching and Learning.

I’ll be talking about how to get your students thinking in expert-like ways by using peer instruction (“clickers”).…

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The Pros and Cons of my ISTE Experience

The Power of 1 on 1 Conferences

Everybody gets a whiteboard!

Working with a diverse group? Try a card sort.

Space to make ideas your own

The Web and Ed We Want via Justin Reich

Designing for open #TWP15

Part II: Popping the lid off of #msloc430

Hello, my name is Prof–, no Doc–, no, ugh.

Teaching students to think like experts – CSUgrit Symposium