Category Archives: How We Learn
High School Teachers go to Blogging School
Last week I did a short two hour session on “An Educator’s Guide To Blogging” – you can download the hand-out or visit the resource slideshow . The 16 participants were a mix of teachers from english, science and history … Continue reading
Google Alerts – My “Sage on the Stage”
In trying to keep abreast of things, I’ve turned to “Google Alerts” – almost everyday my Google Sage sends me something noteworthy or at least worth the read! Here’s how it’s done: The ‘Alerts’ are one of google’s services which … Continue reading
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To learn is to Multi-task
I usually try to ‘attend’ the CIDER sessions but I missed the December 2nd one “Instructional Design Research“, – I’m sorry I did, because I’d have personal experience with the disruptive loud ‘whispers in class’ coming out of the text … Continue reading
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Things I learned by lurking…
Learning by Lurking on the Moodle for language learning site… I mentioned lurking in another blog posting where I was trying to sort out assessments in discussion groups. In that posting, I realized that our grading for a certain course … Continue reading
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Keeping Straight Learning Objects/Interactives/Tools/ and iDevices
Today I created a new Category for some of my blog posts – “Learning Resources”. I felt it was time to start hashing out the difference and similarities between such labels as learning objects and learning interactives, learning tools and … Continue reading
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Social Constructivism vs. Self-paced Learning
After attending the TLT Conference in Regina, I realized that I have been ignoring a whole genre of online learning – self-paced learning. Admittedly, self-paced learning does not have to occur online, it has been a mainstay of correspondence courses … Continue reading
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Cider Connections – An “Aha” Blogging Experience
This is absolutely amazing to me…. A few weeks ago I was trying track down software to help me analyze my online discussions… I came across some work by Dr. Allan Jeong who was using an excel macro to strip … Continue reading
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Assessing Discussion Threads
Last week I was trying to track down software to help me analyze my online discussions. Right now, Participation in the Discussions is worth 30% of the student’s total mark. Students get full marks for providing one new message and … Continue reading
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Norman Defends Cheating …and so do I!!
One link leads to another and another… I can’t remember what lead me to this article but it was an excellent read! There are so many ways it talked to me… First, it brought me back to my Ed. Tech … Continue reading
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Gotta Start Somewhere
After a lot of reading and sitting on the sidelines, I’ve decided to jump into the ring. So here’s the first post… I’m going to take the advice of countless bloggers and ease into things… short posts, change the template … Continue reading
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