This week, my college is sponsoring a Great Teachers Movement retreat at Cornwallis Park just outside Digby, Nova Scotia. It’s facilitated by the founder of the movement, David Gotshall. (That’s David to the right.) Spending a week with David gives you insight into the essence of good teaching. It’s affected me [...]
Archive for April, 2007
The Great Teachers Movement
Posted in Random on April 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Editing video online
Posted in Tools to Try on April 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The more I explore the YouTube community, the more I’m amazed with the creativity I find there. Video has exploded in the past year. When I go into classes, I do quick surveys to gauge what students are using. YouTube always comes up at the top of the list.
There are so many [...]
Participation in the social web
Posted in Random on April 25, 2007 | 2 Comments »
How far up the “ladder of participation” do you go? (See an easier-to-read version of the picture here.)
UPDATE: Take a look at Phil Wolff’s remix, The Ladder of Disclosure. Hilarious.
Skunkworks
Posted in Random on April 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The first time I ever heard the word “skunkworks” was when I was involved in our strategic planning process last year. A few people in the college submitted papers about how community colleges can innovate. One was about entrepreneurship and mentioned the idea of a skunkworks. Basically, a skunkworks is a project [...]
Telling our stories
Posted in Facilitating Online, Learning Design on April 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Storytelling can be a particularly potent way to learn, whether through words, pictures, sound, or video. Stories are dramatic and engaging. By their very nature, they’re about making collective meaning of experience. That’s what learning is.
Ira Glass, producer of This American Life, says that all stories have two building blocks — what happened and our [...]
How Chris writes assignments
Posted in Learning Design on April 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I just came down from upstairs where my husband has shut himself off to finish marking the 250 or so assignments he has to finish this week. I may be biased but I couldn’t help but notice that his assignments are really nicely written — not in the sense of “English major” well-written (which [...]
What’s your secret?
Posted in Random on April 20, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I’m back from a visit to a campus. While I was there, a faculty member showed me an amazing project done by Corrections students. Inspired by the site postsecret.com, students asked others on campus to write down a secret and drop it anonymously in a locker. At the end of the week, they collected dozens [...]
Online Communities and Virginia Tech
Posted in Random on April 17, 2007 | 1 Comment »
It’s difficult to understand the tragedy that unfolded yesterday at Virginia Tech. As a parent, my thoughts are with those who have lost an irreplacable person. I spent yesterday trying to find out what had happened and then trying to make sense as the details became clearer. The scale of hurt is [...]
Happiness and diversity
Posted in Learning Design, Random on April 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Each year, the TED (Technology, Entertainment & Design) conference brings together some of the most innovative and inspired speakers. The new TED web site went live today & features videos of speakers from past conferences. These TED Talks are little gems. Here’s one from Malcolm Gladwell on what we can learn about what makes people happy by looking [...]
Teaching with 2.0 Tools
Posted in Facilitating Online, Tools to Try on April 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Do you need a learning management system like Blackboard or WebCT to facilitate learning online? Not at all. Newfoundland teacher, Andrew Mercer, uses tools that his students use on a daily basis — Piczo, Instant Messenger, Audacity and YouTube — to teach music to students at a distance. The results are [...]
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