(This post is part of a series called “The Connected Class Community”).
The Golden Apple is the most cryptic and strange of all of these ingredients. Not surprisingly, it’s also difficult to explain. I think the idea will make sense after a couple...
Our university is evaluating Learning Management Systems right now, and comparing the features of Blackboard 9.1, MoodleRooms Joule, and Instructure’s Canvas LMS has forced me to think about basic tools in online learning. Which tools do we...
(This post is part of a series called “The Connected Class Community”).
One essential part of human communities has always been a central meeting place– a location where the community comes to engage in conversations that are bigger than one‐on‐one interactions can offer. I call this space Th...
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I“m excited to be joining the DS106 Digital Storytelling course with Jim Groom at http://www.ds106.us. You can follow my posts by subscribing to the RSS feed for the tag DS106.
The recent explosion of great tools that simply run in a web browser has been amazing. From tools like Google Docs, Evernote, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, Prezi, and Rememberthemilk and the venerable Gmail– you can access powerful tools for free where...
I watched this talk today and it was a great synthesis of the reasons to move beyond tradition Learning Management Systems into a more flexible paradigm that supports various open technologies for learning.
Did you know you can save time and effort by starting a Frequently Asked Questions Discussion Board in your course? Do you get tired of answering the same student questions over and over? Save time and effort by starting a Frequent Asked Questions forum in your course! It i...
What began as a pie‐in‐the‐sky idea was actually put into production as Google Body Browser, a 3D WebGL powered app that showed the major features of the anatomy in a browser. As Google has focused their energy around their core products they have discontinued Body Browser and open sou...
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I recently got an email from a colleague who wanted to explore the idea of developing Second Life scenarios for educating nursing students.
What would be the educational benefits to students of using avatars in virtual reality scenarios as opposed to, say, in‐person...
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In Jez’ e‑Rambler blog, he meditates on the importance of reflection in education. Researchers have long known that reflection is an excellent way to stimulate critical thinking. By comparing new learnings with what you already know, you are able to fit the n...