Sue Beckingham’s #blideo challenge accepted! It seems that Steve Wheeler has come up with another way to get us all blogging about education. The call to action is to view the video and write a response to the video that connects it to education in some way. I will then have to select a new…
Blogging
The web: network, dreamcatcher, patterns #blimage
Before I share my response to the #blimage gauntlet that was thrown down by Sue Buckingham while I was sleeping last night, what the heck is #blimage? It seems that #blimage began with Steve Wheeler, Simon Enzor, and Amy Burvall on Twitter. A blog image? When thinking about ways to motivate people to blog, this…
My #fedwikihappening experience
I was lucky to have been a part of a very, very messy learning experience this holiday season. This learning experience was not a MOOC but rather a connectivist learning experience called “a happening” per Mike Caulfield. The happening was a semi-structured community learning experience using Federated Wiki as an authoring tool. The goal of the happening,…
4 Social Media Tools to Promote Connected Teaching and Learning
What social media tools should instructors use to engage students outside of the LMS? Here are 4 simple examples of how to engage students using readily available and mobile friendly tools. Blogging Having students blog about their learning is a great way to chronicle their experiences and reflect on the overall process. The more students write the…