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Learning Never Stops: Opening Themes TV - Watch your favorite opening TV themes - 4 views

seekoutlearning.blogspot.com/...es-tv-watch-your-favorite.html learning themes TV culture videos
shared by Michael Sheehan on 18 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Michael Sheehan on 18 Feb 13
     
    An extensive video collects of TV opening themes from the 1950's to the 2000's. Good for teaching how American culture changes.
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Open Evaluation in Education / Evaluación Educativa abierta | Open Box in Spa... - 0 views

alejandroib.wix.com/evaluacionabierta resources tools Open Educational Practices
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  • Alejandro Ibáñez B on 26 Feb 13
     
    Open Research Project on Open Educational Practices / Caja de Herrramientas para la Planeación Educativa en Evaluación Abierta mediada por las TIC.
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A Social Network Can Be a Learning Network - The Digital Campus - The Chronicle of High... - 98 views

chronicle.com/...129609 social network sociallearning Social Media learning education millenials socialnetworking socialbookmarking pln ple optometry
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  • Sharing student work on a course blog is an example of what Randall Bass and Heidi Elmendorf, of Georgetown University, call "social pedagogies." They define these as "design approaches for teaching and learning that engage students with what we might call an 'authentic audience' (other than the teacher), where the representation of knowledge for an audience is absolutely central to the construction of knowledge in a course."
    • trisha_poole
      trisha_poole on 08 Nov 11
       
      Very important - social pedagogies for authentic tasks - a key for integrating SNTs in the classroom.
    • Daniel Spielmann
      Daniel Spielmann on 09 Nov 11
       
      Agreed, for connectivism see also www.connectivism.ca
  • External audiences certainly motivate students to do their best work. But students can also serve as their own authentic audience when asked to create meaningful work to share with one another.
    • Daniel Spielmann
      Daniel Spielmann on 09 Nov 11
       
      The last sentence is especially important in institutional contexts where the staff voices their distrust against "open scholarship" (Weller 2011), web 2.0 and/or open education. Where "privacy" is deemed the most important thing in dealing with new technologies, advocates of an external audience have to be prepared for certain questions.
    • tapiatanova
      tapiatanova on 03 Jan 14
       
      yes! nothing but barriers! However, it is unclear if the worries about pravacy are in regards to students or is it instructors who fear teaching in the open. everyone cites FERPA and protection of student identities, but I have yet to hear any student refusing to work in the open...
  • Students most likely won't find this difficult. After all, you're asking them to surf the Web and tag pages they like. That's something they do via Facebook every day. By having them share course-related content with their peers in the class, however, you'll tap into their desires to be part of your course's learning community. And you might be surprised by the resources they find and share.
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  • back-channel conversations
  • While keynote speakers and session leaders are speaking, audience members are sharing highlights, asking questions, and conversing with colleagues on Twitter
    • trisha_poole
      trisha_poole on 08 Nov 11
       
      An effective use of Twitter that can be translated to classrooms.
    • Daniel Spielmann
      Daniel Spielmann on 09 Nov 11
       
      All classrooms?
    • John Dorn
      John Dorn on 09 Nov 11
       
      classrooms where students are motivated to learn. Will this work in a HS classroom where kids just view their phones as a means to check up on people? Maybe if they can see "cool" class could be if they were responsible for the freedoms that would be needed to use twitter or other similar sites.
  • Ask your students to create accounts on Twitter or some other back-channel tool and share ideas that occur to them in your course. You might give them specific assignments, as does the University of Connecticut's Margaret Rubega, who asks students in her ornithology class to tweet about birds they see. During a face-to-face class session, you could have students discuss their reading in small groups and share observations on the back channel. Or you could simply ask them to post a single question about the week's reading they would like to discuss.
  • A back channel provides students a way to stay connected to the course and their fellow students. Students are often able to integrate back channels into their daily lives, checking for and sending updates on their smartphones, for instance. That helps the class become more of a community and gives students another way to learn from each other.
  • Deep learning is hard work, and students need to be well motivated in order to pursue it. Extrinsic factors like grades aren't sufficient—they motivate competitive students toward strategic learning and risk-averse students to surface learning.
  • Social pedagogies provide a way to tap into a set of intrinsic motivations that we often overlook: people's desire to be part of a community and to share what they know with that community.
  • Online, social pedagogies can play an important role in creating such a community. These are strong motivators, and we can make use of them in the courses we teach.
  • The papers they wrote for my course weren't just academic exercises; they were authentic expressions of learning, open to the world as part of their "digital footprints."
    • Daniel Spielmann
      Daniel Spielmann on 09 Nov 11
       
      Yes, but what is the relation between such writing and ("proper"?) academic writing?
  • Collaborative documents need not be text-based works. Sarah C. Stiles, a sociologist at Georgetown, has had her students create collaborative timelines showing the activities of characters in a text, using a presentation tool called Prezi.com. I used that tool to have my cryptography students create a map of the debate over security and privacy. They worked in small groups to brainstorm arguments, and contributed those arguments to a shared debate map synchronously during class.
  • Daniel Spielmann on 09 Nov 11
     
    A great blog post on social pedagogies and how they can be incorporated in university/college classes. A good understanding of creating authentic learning experiences through social media.
  • John Dorn on 09 Nov 11
     
    A great blog post on social pedagogies and how they can be incorporated in university/college classes. A good understanding of creating authentic learning experiences through social media.
  • tapiatanova on 03 Jan 14
     
    A great blog post on social pedagogies and how they can be incorporated in university/college classes. A good understanding of creating authentic learning experiences through social media.
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Stanford Unveils Free Platform To Run Your Own Online Courses - 69 views

edudemic.com/...ee-platform-run-online-courses Stanford Google MOOC Class2Go education
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  • Peter Beens on 25 Sep 12
     
    "Google and Stanford are more than just neighbors in Silicon Valley. They're becoming the leaders in the online learning revolution. And it's all happening fast and starting right about … now. Stanford, like Google, has now announced a free and open source platform that lets you run your very own Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Stanford's platform, dubbed Class2Go, has big and slightly different aspirations from its competitors. Developed as a non-profit project by eight Stanford Computer Science engineers, Class2Go is meant to offer not only a course-like project but also tools for collaborative research. The latter functionality is a change from what Google, edX, Coursera, and others are offering right now."
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BigBluebutton - 2 views

www.bigbluebutton.org Online_Learning_Environments Teaching_Tools
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  • Marc Patton on 27 Nov 12
     
    BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system built on over fourteen open source components to create an integrated solution that runs on Mac, Unix, and PC computers.
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Saffron launches new open source enterprise social network at LT show - 1 views

www.saffroninteractive.com/s-new-social-learning-platform open-source lms mobile moodle social tools
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  • Thieme Hennis on 29 Jan 13
     
    "At next week's Learning Technologies Exhibition Saffron Interactive (Stand 33) will be demonstrating Saffron Share, a corporate social network, personal portfolio and community knowledge base for collaboration and 'just-in-time' learning. The product is based on the open source Elgg social networking engine. "
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Health - 0 views

www.cleancookstoves.org/...health-impacts.html clean cookstoves health research project 2013
shared by Caroline Dutton on 12 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that exposure to smoke from the simple act of cooking is the fifth worst risk factor for disease in developing countries, and causes almost two million premature deaths per year – exceeding deaths attributable to malaria or tuberculosis.
  • Women in developing countries are also at risk of head and spinal injuries, pregnancy complications, and maternal mortality from the strenuous task of carrying heavy loads of firewood or other fuels. Frequent exposure to cookstove smoke can also cause disabling health impacts like cataracts, which affect women more than men, and is the leading cause of blindness in developing countries.
  • Rudimentary wood-fired cookstoves and open fires emit fine particles, carbon monoxide, and other pollutants at levels up to 100 times higher than the recommended limits set by WHO
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  • A randomized-control study in Guatemala led by the University of California, Berkeley, found that halving exposure to indoor air pollution with a chimney stove brought about a reduction in severe pneumonia, and that larger reductions in exposure had more pronounced effects. A systematic review of all available studies on the link between solid fuel use and child pneumonia has found an almost doubling of risk for those exposed.
  • Burns from open fires and unsafe cookstoves are another insidious risk faced by poor households dependent on kerosene, open fires, and unstable metal or clay cookstoves, contributing to a substantial percentage of the estimated 300,000 burn deaths that occur annually
  • While the link between exposure to cookstove smoke and a wide range of health problems such as pneumonia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and lung cancer is well established, the current body of evidence linking cookstoves with other potentially important health effects is compelling but less documented
  • Nearly all of the existing evidence is based on observational studies that compare groups using open fires and traditional cookstoves with those using cleaner fuels, with very little being directly obtained from studies that directly measure the effects of interventions.
  • More evidence is needed to demonstrate that the levels of exposure reduction delivered by clean cookstove and fuels will result in declines in related illnesses and deaths.
  • Caroline Dutton on 12 Feb 13
     
    This is the Global alliance for Clean Cookstoves website. They offer much information about the issues surrounding the topic and their action plan for affecting change!
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Twitter for Teachers: an Experiment in Openness | theory.cribchronicles.com - 1 views

ht.ly/hnsBn education openness teachers social media resources tools
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  • Jennie Snyder on 03 Feb 13
     
    Great post on the value of "openness" and using Twitter for professional learning. 
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» Napster, Udacity, and the Academy Clay Shirky - 1 views

www.shirky.com/...apster-udacity-and-the-academy
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    • Celia Emmelhainz
      Celia Emmelhainz on 08 Feb 13
       
      And we've done all of that with education!
  • An organization with cost disease can use lower paid workers, increase the number of consumers per worker, subsidize production, or increase price
  • Cheap graduate students let a college lower the cost of teaching the sections while continuing to produce lectures as an artisanal product, from scratch, on site, real time
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  • We ask students to read the best works we can find, whoever produced them and where, but we only ask them to listen to the best lecture a local employee can produce that morning.
    • Celia Emmelhainz
      Celia Emmelhainz on 08 Feb 13
       
      Which is why I think amazing lectures and lecture-notes followed by in person discussion could be powerful. Like a reading group (aka english class) but for video.
  • he very things the US News list of top colleges prizes—low average class size, ratio of staff to students—mean that any institution that tries to create a cost-effective education will move down the list.
  • hese are where most students are, and their experience is what college education is mostly like.
  • a good chunk of the four thousand institutions you haven’t heard of provide an expensive but mediocre education
  • That’s because the fight over MOOCs is really about the story we tell ourselves about higher education: what it is, who it’s for, how it’s delivered, who delivers it.
  • OOCs expand the audience for education to people ill-served or completely shut out from the current system, in the same way phonographs expanded the audience for symphonies to people who couldn’t get to a concert hall, and PCs expanded the users of computing power to people who didn’t work in big companies. Those earlier inventions systems started out markedly inferior to the high-cost alternative: records were scratchy, PCs were crashy. But first they got better, then they got better than that, and finally, they got so good, for so cheap, that they changed people’s sense of what was possible
  • n the US, an undergraduate education used to be an option, one way to get into the middle class. Now it’s a hostage situation, required to avoid falling out of it.
  • Open systems are open. For people used to dealing with institutions that go out of their way to hide their flaws, this makes these systems look terrible at first. But anyone who has watched a piece of open source software improve, or remembers the Britannica people throwing tantrums about Wikipedia, has seen how blistering public criticism makes open systems better.
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Open - University of Minnesota - 6 views

open.umn.edu/opentextbooks Teacher_Resources Teaching_Tools Online_Learning_Environments
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  • Marc Patton on 10 Sep 12
     
    In an effort to reduce costs for students, the College of Education and Human Development has created this catalog of open textbooks to be reviewed by faculty members.
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International Society for Technology in Education - Blog > Words of Wisdom from a Late ... - 5 views

www.iste.org/...Late_Adopter_BYOD_Already.aspx ISTE blog education technology BYOT smartphone
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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 01 Dec 11
     
    When I was a kid, one of my prize possessions was a big, red Swiss Army knife. It had everything from a plastic toothpick and a spoon to a bottle opener and screwdriver. I used it for all kinds of projects, and I always had it with me just in case someone needed to pry something open or tighten something down. Today I carry a more modern multipurpose tool-the smartphone.
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Methodenlexikon: Open-Space (sowi-online) - 0 views

www.sowi-online.de/...open-space-boettger.htm eMethoden resources
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  • Michael Steiner on 14 Jun 12
     
    Open Space Methode
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What's the "problem" with MOOCs? « EdTechDev - 18 views

edtechdev.wordpress.com/...whats-the-problem-with-moocs mooc MOOCs eLearning education
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  • alexis alexander on 21 Sep 12
     
    "What's the "problem" with MOOCs? In case the quotes didn't clue you in, this post doesn't argue against massive open online courses (MOOCs) such as the ones offered by Udacity, Coursera, and edX. I think they are very worthy ventures and will serve to progress our system of higher education. I do however agree with some criticisms of these courses, and that there is room for much more progress. I propose an alternative model for such massive open online learning experiences, or MOOLEs, that focuses on solving "problems," but first, here's a sampling of some of the criticisms of MOOCs."
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OpenTechSchool - OpenTechSchool - 22 views

www.opentechschool.org berlin technology education open-education open-source openness open-access
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  • Thieme Hennis on 19 Sep 13
     
    So many cool things come from Berlin... "OpenTechSchool is a community initiative offering free programming workshops and meetups to technology enthusiasts of all genders, backgrounds, and experience levels. It supports volunteer coaches in setting up events by taking care of the organizational details, encouraging coaches to create original teaching material. This material is then openly shared online and can be further developed by contributions from the global OTS community. OTS' main goal is to create a friendly learning environment where no one feels shy about asking any question. Everyone is invited to participate, whether as a coach or a learner, and get in contact to organize OTS events anywhere in the world."
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Open Education Sites Offer Free Content for All | MindShift - 76 views

blogs.kqed.org/...tes-offer-free-content-for-all kqed resources OER curriculum lessonplan
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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 19 Dec 13
     
    "Open education sites exemplify how technology is democratizing education. These sites allow both learners and teachers to create their own curriculum, whether it's used in or out of the classroom."
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BELLTONES: An Open Letter to Teachers Who do Not Prefer Technology - Internet@Schools M... - 63 views

www.internetatschools.com/...t-Prefer-Technology-94788.aspx teachers technology
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  • Judy Robison on 24 Feb 14
     
    "An Open Letter to Teachers Who do Not Prefer Technology"
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Complete Guide to Open Educational Resources -- Campus Technology - 60 views

campustechnology.com/...pen-educational-resources.aspx guide resources campus technology
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  • Ann Steckel on 27 Aug 14
     
    "Complete Guide to Open Educational Resources"
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Home - TimeMapper - Make Timelines and TimeMaps fast! - from the Open Knowledge Foundat... - 116 views

timemapper.okfnlabs.org timeline open-source tools cool visualization
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  • Thieme Hennis on 09 Nov 13
     
    Very handy and open source timeline creator. "1. Create a Spreadsheet Add your dates and places to a Google Spreadsheet. 2. Connect and Customize Connect your spreadsheet with TimeMapper and customize the results. 3. Publish, Embed and Share Publish your TimeMap at your own personal url, then share or embed on your site."
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50 Open Source Tools That Replace Popular Education Apps - Datamation.com - 170 views

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  • raya samet on 26 Jun 10
     
    50 open source educational apps from a variety of categories that can replace popular commercial software.
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