February 2016 archive

election guide

Election Guide: 5 Education Takeaways From the Presidential Candidates

http://www.edweek.org/ew/section/multimedia/election-guide-5-education-takeaways-from-candidates.html

Nice outline of the presidential candidates views on K12

The major party hopefuls still in the race as of last week boasted widely varied records and stances on K-12. (Download as a PDF.)

Related: How Meaty Are the Presidential Candidates’ Online K-12 Positions?

 

Improve Professional Learning

7 Ways to Improve Professional Learning in the 21st Century

  1. Sandbox environments.
  2. Model classrooms.
  3. Walkthroughs. Pro-tip: there are several tools available to guide the “look fors,” such as this one from the Teaching of Robust Understanding Framework.
  4. Lunch and learns/Drop-in sessions.
  5. Unconferences/EdCamps.
  6. Coaching.
  7. Micro-credentialing/Badges.

More on use of badges in this blog:

https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/?s=badges&submit=Search

Learning Spaces and Instructional Technology

Special Interest Group: Learning Spaces and Instructional Technology (SIG) webinars are FREE and open to anyone. Please feel free to share this with others at your institution.

Dynamic Discussion Artifacts: Moving Beyond Threaded Discussion

Description

This session will describe an approach to online discussions that moves beyond the threaded message boards of D2L Brightspace, yet still maintained an asynchronous online delivery. Using teams, discussions were differentiated by product to allow students to turn in an artifact that represented their shared understanding during specific online course modules.  Strategies, Technology guides, rubrics, and student feedback will be shared.

Presenter: Michael Manderfeld
Senior Instructional Designer
Minnesota State University Mankato

When
Where
https://moqi.zoom.us/j/672493176 (link to virtual room)

 

 

Notes from the previous session available here:

Active Learning Classrooms

organization of info across apps and platforms

Event: FridayLive! A Way through the Information Jungle: February 26th
Date: 26 Feb 2016 2:00 PM –  EST

LOGIN INFORMATION:
To login to FridayLive! on February 26, 2016 starting at 1:30 pm ET
Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android:
1st try this short URL: tlt/gs/zoom
2nd try https://zoom.us/j/2758853550
Meeting ID: 275 885 3550
https://zoom.us/j/2758853550

Description

Ever wonder if there is a better way to manage all the information to which we have access. We want to find it, filter it, organize it, consume it, store it, share it – on and offline – across all our devices –  and save time and effort while we do it all.

Our guests for this session will share their work flows and associated applications they have found to be successful such as Pocket, Feedly, Evernote, DIIGO, INNO reader, etc. There will also be an opportunity for participants to share their works flows.
The TLT Group
301-270-8312

https://www.netvibes.com/en

https://gmail.powerbotapps.com/#main

https://www.wunderlist.com/

http://moocie.org/curating-tools/

http://webtools4u2use.wikispaces.com/Curation+Tools

philosophy and technology

Philosophy’s influence on technology design – and why it needs to change

http://phys.org/news/2016-02-philosophy-technology-designand.html

How we communicate is as important as why

Communication technology has tapped into a very human need to be liked and appreciated.

Why should any of this matter to designers, manufacturers, and users of technology? A narrow view of why we communicate inevitably limits the sorts of we build. Interestingly, many of the things we do with technology are byproducts of what they were originally designed for (e.g. the internet emerged as the result of a US Defence project researching possibilities for network packets). Once we drop our preconceived ideas that transmitting information is their only purpose – an assumption that carries with it a shortsighted vision – the possibilities of what we could create are endless.
There is a difference between understanding the words a speaker has said, and understanding the speaker – understanding the “why” as well as the “what”.

Multimedia History Stories

History in Motion – Create Multimedia History Stories

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2015/01/history-in-motion-create-multimedia.html

History in Motion is a promising service that allows teachers and students to build multimedia history stories.

yet another cool mashup

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