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ID and Educator’s Role in Online Learning Part 1
As a certified Quality Matters peer reviewer, I was following the QM thread on online facilitation and teacher engagement in a community board. It brought me back to those days when online learning was just a buzzword. I’d taken ID courses and read quite a bit initially due to my professional interest. I’d even advocated for workshops on facilitating online learning (inspired by a terrific book by Collison et. al) to my boss. Little wonder that I was fascinated by the discussion in the QM community. The debate on TD…
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Roadblocks to PhD attainment
I wrote something nice and it disappeared after I fiddled with it. :( Oh well, here’s what I meant to say, in a less lyrical style. Phillips and Pugh (2002) wrote a book on how to get a PhD and an extract was published online (Guardian News and Media Ltd, 2011). Although written from a British vantage point, several of the barriers to PhD attainment are not foreign. I was informed by the examples they gave on how and why some students withdrew from doctoral programs. Of note is one…
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I’m on the Imagining America website!
OK, tooting my own horn, :). Our Access project was highlighted on the Imagining America site because I had the honor to attend the Arts Think Tank on behalf of our project directors! I was at the Next Step in Arts Think Tank: Using the Arts and Humanities in Community Health, March 17-19, 2011, a regional Imagining America conference, organized with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Center on Age & Community, directed by Dr. Anne Basting. The theme was on the intersection of culture and health. Read more. On that page,…
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One element to foster creative thinking
One thing I find some students tend to not do is to venture beyond their disciplines or universities to work with other people. One of the oft-studied components to foster creative thinking and outcomes is multiculturalism, sometimes variously studied under terms like heterogeneity, interdisciplinarity or multiple perspectives. My diss. chair herself recognized that I’m a bridge person and pointed that out to me: I cross cultures frequently and I live at the intersection of cultures. I am used to this; I come from Singapore, a melting pot of cultures. I’m…
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What no course can teach me?
Someone asked me what it is I learned at AERA that no formal course can teach me? It was a good question — I began to think a bit more about it beyond the big idea that I had learned a lot, things I could never get from a structured, formal learning setting for PhD students. 1. I got to watch how AERA operates from the inside — from one view — Division C.There is this humongous machinery that churns out different sorts of activities and events to cater to…
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Say what you mean, clearly
Source: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/09/please-complain.html If you want people to speak up, be clear and mean it. If you don’t, don’t pretend. – Seth Godin
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Next Steps in Arts Think Tank Part 2: Finding Penelope
The Play. I’ve been postponing this organization of my thoughts and my mixed (in a good way!) response to it. It is a beautifully crafted, complex and tender piece of art. I am half afraid to write about it. But “[f]inding Penelope” (FP) was one of the main reasons for my trip. So I want to document this learning experience. I had been following The Penelope Project blog for a while after Marj told me about it when she came back from the Seattle IA Conference. It inspired us, me,…
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Next Steps in Arts Think Tank: A Milestone Part 1
I had an enriching time at Milwaukee, learning and soaking in the experience of watching something profound unfold and transform everyone present — both the actors and the audience. Several people wept just talking about it. A-ma-zing. I’m grateful to be a part of history in the making. Yes, I do believe Dr. Basting’s research will mark a turning point in the use of arts for public health issues. This experience also marks a turning point in my doctoral journey. It’s a confirmation, a feeling I get that my dissertation…
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Slow to Speak, Quick to Listen
Franklin said that she never felt the need to set the record straight about the surgery or rumors of cancer, nor did she feel like she should reassure fans that she was fine. “No (I didn’t), because you really can’t control what people have to say, and you just can’t control what comes out of people’s mouths. So, it will take care of itself. I am my own best example and that’s where I leave that,” Franklin said. Read more. Well said, classy lady.
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Gender gap news
Lester Holt reports on how girls are flying by boys in American colleges. And this: “Among the fastest-growing jobs of the next decade, only two, janitorial work and computer engineering, are expected to be dominated by men.” Wow, where does he get these numbers from? Which studies are he referring to? Why doesn’t he report actual numbers of women in STEM occupations? How many did he talk to for this report? Yes, I can see girls everywhere in my School of Education but in Engineering, Physics, Statistics? “Women dominate high…
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Designing Brain Training & Other Experiences
A web start-up, Lumosity, claims to provide brain exercises to train your brain become “brighter”. Mhm. Read about it here at Mashable. I haven’t found time to try it out yet. Let me know if you have and if it does what it claims. The other thing that I learned today is about design. As an instructional designer by training and practice, I was struck by what Sawyer wrote on his blog: “A curator designs experiences, whether presentations, performances, or art spaces.” Basically, that’s what I do too? Designing and…
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Deaf Coffee 2nd Session 2-18-2011
[Img source: http://bit.ly/fpjGCO] I was tired but I went and meeting new people rejuvenated me. Michael and his family were there; there were a few people who I’d met at DAC and CNYRID. So I’m getting to know the community of Deaf and ASL interpreters. It dawned on me that my signing must be improving because Michael asked the other day if I needed voicing from the interpreter who was present. Tonight, at the coffee meet, an ASL student said I seem to be so comfortable with signing. :) I…
