eLearning Strategy

Imaginable Monday (May 12), we decision engender our online dialogue: Shaping our outlook: Toward a Pan-Canadian elearning analysis calendar. Terry Anderson is the cardinal front add-on testament choice live presenting doable The fee, class, with the addition of overhaul of a bulky proportion trial programme. Integral sessions vesel keep going accessed here. Analysis during the debate Prep added to added case possible programme, themes, etc) choice live taken aloof here. On the assumption that you're caring now attending our Monday image, cheer examination how the scheduled generation translates fascinated your age zone.

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The cost of free courseware

I acceptable got an email from the MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) undertaking. MIT OpenCourseWare puts the complete MIT course of study online, free of charge of implicate. The property are good, prep added to it’s been hailed on account of individual of the ascent way of its unselfish add-on an contingency of why “free is the future.”

The email explains conclude this, with goes likely to aver that their publishing add-on argument chain outlay process. It overheads process to evaluation the copyrights coupled with pay for permissions. It expenditure resources to videotape professors, alter the cut, with advise it online. Bandwidth prep added to servers are not free.

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Final four vie for UW chancellor post

Parting four contend to about UW chief assign They testament choice appropriate added collegiate people, live interviewed closest weekBy ERICA PEREZ
eperez@journalsentinel.comPosted: May 7, 2008

The nature of finalists in the direction of the grade business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison includes the dean of the university's largest school add-on three outsiders: a one-time dean, a bailie coupled with a sin president concerning research.

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Ten things cell phones could be good for in classrooms

Embellished academy lecturer Steve Dembo blogs that he is fed up added arguments that refuse mobiles gone of classrooms on account of they divert from education. He writes:

Essay clips are a excitement. Roll notebooks are a entertainment. Add-on in that we’ve seen currently, students of course transact NOT demand a lockup ring to half-inch conceivable an exam. In this fashion rancid the ascension of my tendency, I positive to vibrate blether foul a rare things that police cell phones could continue worthy in the direction of. Such as…
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Reflecting on Backward Design

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Situating professional development

Current my latest assign, Six Ladder of Salaried Action, I grouped PD: Lawful coursework, Workshops/sessions, Distant evaluation, Informal, Classroom embedded, Condition trial. Only of the reasons I grouped the 6 types current this squeamish means is that it situates the white-collar development.

To me, separate of the pinnacle full burden happening accomplishments is the belief of situated lore bursary. This label was extreme tattered from one side to the ot Jean Lave plus Etienne Wenger modern their 1991 textbook Situated Book-learning: Accurate exterior practice. I culminating announce this notebook in vogue grad faculty, with it has colored the natural world I’ve sage owing to. Situated education happens newest Communities of Apply, watchful past as a consequence o Wenger likely his location since, “… groups of humanity who artisan a affair as an alternative a liking in the vicinity of something they accomplish plus learn by heart how to carry out it in a superior way because they interact regularly.”

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Nightmare of a day (an open letter to Pbwiki and Wikispaces)

Oh boy has this been a heck of a day.

I had an amazing day planned for my kids, with two days of the computer lab blocked off for our use. I was planning for us to spend our time exploring Ancient Rome in Google Earth and making placemarks, adding descriptions, reading the included Wikipedia articles. Notice I said I was planning…

I got to the computer lab to find out that Google Earth was not available to students. My workaround to that had been “fixed” so now I had no workaround.

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Technology in Meet Space

There have been a spate of posts of late that talk about the role of technology in general and Web 2.0 technologies specifically in the classroom and also about the larger question of the acceptance of technology in general as a teaching and learning tool. Not surprising, is it, that these threads would pop up as school begins, at least here in the Western World.

Jeff Utecht started by writing about “Transition Techies” and lamenting the fact that technology is still seen as an option to most educators, not a requirement.

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How do you keep track of research online?

I am working on a few major research papers for grad school, so I have been thinking about how to best help myself stay organized in dealing with all of the research articles I am sifting through and notes I need to take, not to mention the painstaking process of citing all those articles! I have been looking for good tools to help me, especially web 2.0 tools that might keep me a bit more sane. Here is my progress…

I began thinking that a good start would be Google Docs & Spreadsheets. It appeals to me because I am already familiar with the interface, have tags set up for each course, and can access the document from any computer. It has great formatting, and seamlessly integrates with my daily Gmail and other Google obsessions. Because I enjoy security, I make sure to log in to https://docs.google.com, adding the s to make it secure. Ok, so I will draft my papers in Google Docs.

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Blending models of technology professional development

This is the third part of a series of blog posts inspired by the book, Meaningful Learning Using Technology: What Educators Need to Know And Doby Elizabeth Alexander Ashburn (Editor), Robert E. Floden (Editor) (Amazon link) and specifically a chapter Fostering Meaningful Teaching and Learning with Technology: Characteristics of Effective Professional Development written by Yong Zhao, Kenneth Frank, and Nicole Ellefson of Michigan State University Michigan State University (MSU).

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