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Designing a Course Worth Learning 3: Course Video Make
Transcript of Video (Google Document) Thinking and talking about the course has turned into action. Yes, UNIV 291 has begun. I did not create a navigation or orientation video because I had provided a lot of instructions on the website. The students didn’t seem to be lost. They knew where to start. I had a Get Started button, to be sure. Most of their questions centered around Learning Activity terms we use in Connected Learning. Were they doing things “right” and questions about social media. Why aren’t my tweets showing…
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Hypothes.is for Shared Annotation
A week ago, Laura (my colleague) tweet-alerted me to someone who had annotated my extended comment to her Twitter Journal Club blogpost. @yinbk @SuzanKoseoglu @merryspaniel @JeffreyKeefer – @jgmac1106 added an annotation page to his website http://t.co/BzTIojdw3n #cool #tjc15 — Laura Gogia (@GoogleGuacamole) March 13, 2015 It was Greg McVerry, a supergeek. (He knows all these cool tools I’ve been playing with.) He had responded to my blogpost by annotating and replying to the ideas. Impressive! @yinbk @GoogleGuacamole @SuzanKoseoglu @merryspaniel @JeffreyKeefer A #tjc15 annotation: http://t.co/RP1kx66oYy — Greg McVerry (@jgmac1106) March 13, 2015 Intrigued,…
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Truthseeking: Onward to the Next #TJC15 event
To Laura, and all potential truth seekers, Some preliminary thoughts. Having read how your experiment first started (the background, your own journal reading club experiences), I understand better why you made the choices you did. I have had pretty positive experiences of journal article reading with my peers in grad school. In a few classes and during dissertation writing sessions, there were some fine debates with “a disputatious community of truth seekers” (Donald Campbell cited in Shadish, Cook & Leviton 1991 — THE Evaluation book every evaluation student must read?).…
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Thinking about Student Blogs and Community Building
“So you mean we are sharing cyberspace?” Seven words that offered a glimpse into our client’s thinking. I will refer to her as Ms. Z. [Stan and I met with her.] Some background information before I continue. She had come to ALT Lab, bogged down by barriers to blogpost-editing and seeking some assistance on how to integrate Timeline into a blogpost. From her instructor’s [Dr. Halo, pseudonym] course site [BEY 500, fake course name], Ms. Z was able to “jump to” and “see” her own blog site. Happily, she has also been blogging on…
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Poetry Practice Pieces 2.25.15
Five Not-So-Easy Pieces My head hurt in my effort to complete these assignments. Ils contestaient missions! And so, I’m still working on the Dickinson one. Enjoy! 1.Five Liner Stiff knotty hands misshapen by age Sculpts earthy tators with black steel blade Practicing the presence of God, he says Can I tempt you to rest your gnarled aching grip His neck stretches, recoils, bent on his sacred toil 2. Sound and Sense (A la Peyton Manning -“Nationwide is on Your Side”) I picked this line from one of Barry Manilow’s popular hit,…
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My First Storify Experiment on Understanding #fedwikihappening
[View the story “Understanding #fedwikihappening” on Storify]
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Online Icebreaker: Songs My Mother Taught Me
[Note: This post began as a draft in June 2014 after I heard this tune on a plane. Video description: Antonin Dvorak’s musical composition, Songs My Mother Taught Me, performed by Itzhak Perlman]Different metaphors have been used to describe the learning process; learning is like a game, a conversation, combustion system, an ecosystem … What if learning is like music-making or an inspiration of song? This idea came about when I heard Joshua Bell and Yo-Yo Ma play Dvorak’s “Songs My Mother Taught Me.” How about using this as an online icebreaker…
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Visual Language
A couple of weeks ago, a faculty member contacted us to ask for tips to help his students’ articulate their ideas in more creative ways. As I responded to the request by suggesting some resources, I realized that in an unplanned way, I’ve spent some time trying out software and documented my playtime in my blog. I was thus able to refer the faculty member to examples of software and activities I’ve tried out myself or learned from others. Here are some older blogposts I’ve written about my “serious play”…
