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DICE 2010: "Design Outside the Box" Presentation Videos - G4tv.com - 5 views

www.g4tv.com/...n-Outside-the-Box-Presentation elearning research
shared by Jennifer Dalby on 08 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Jennifer Dalby on 08 Feb 11
     
    This is from last year, but it's got some important considerations in it. You've got to watch it until the end to get the full message, though.
  • ann stephens on 09 Feb 11
     
    The observation in this video is quite powerful. We have always been motivated by incentives, but the internet and technology has taken this to a new level. Small incentives can become big ones. We've always behaved this way - like coupons for food - a few cents makes a different buying decision. However, his discussion on how egames have become a major financial source for Facebook and the virtual world is replacing the "authentic" world shows how technology is transformational. The point - about how everything we do is being recorded and kept - and will this change how we behave is true.
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Diagnosing the Digital Revolution Why it's so hard to tell whether it's really changing... - 4 views

www.slate.com/2283467 #EDUC251 review Turkle
shared by Jennifer Dalby on 07 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Jennifer Dalby on 07 Feb 11
     
    Another review on Turkle's "Alone Together."
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  • Joy LaJeret on 07 Feb 11
     
    That gives me a lot of food for thought. While I escape into my virtual world it is not NOT, like second life. I simply go web surfing and find things that need researching when reality becomes so bad, I simply need to get away. I do not have to buy an island or new virtual clothes. I simply have to apply the skills I learned in the university on research, only through a computer rather than a library. That article has me worried for our children. I want more like this to balance what we know on the positive side.
  • Bruce Wolcott on 08 Feb 11
     
    Regarding Turkle's recent article... Back in 1909 the British author, E.M. Forster wrote a short novel called The Machine Stops. The story is quite extraordinary in its early description of the Internet (called the Machine), and a global society that has migrated to to it while the natural world is neglected. Here are some short excerpts... Imagine, if you can, a small room, hexagonal in shape, like the cell of a bee. It is lighted neither by window nor by lamp, yet it is filled with a soft radiance. There are no apertures for ventilation, yet the air is fresh. There are no musical instruments, and yet, at the moment that my meditation opens, this room is throbbing with melodious sounds. An armchair is in the centre, by its side a reading-desk-that is all the furniture. And in the armchair there sits a swaddled lump of flesh-a woman, about five feet high, with a face as white as a fungus. It is to her that the little room belongs. ... it was fully fifteen seconds before the round plate that she held in her hands began to glow. A faint blue light shot across it, darkening to purple, and presently she could see the image of her son, who lived on the other side of the earth, and he could see her. ... She made the room dark and slept; she awoke and made the room light; she ate and exchanged ideas with her friends, and listened to music and attended lectures; she made the room dark and slept. Above her, beneath her, and around her, the Machine hummed eternally; she did not notice the noise, for she had been born with it in her ears.
  • Joy LaJeret on 08 Feb 11
     
    OMG...how totally eerie. How predictive! Amazing, thanks for sharing that Bruce.
  • ann stephens on 08 Feb 11
     
    The "cultural rachet effect" was particularly interesting to me. (For grown-ups, learning a new skill is painful, attention-demanding, and slow. Children learn unconsciously and effortlessly. Because of this, each new generation rapidly acquires all the accumulated innovations of the past without even knowing it. ) It becomes the new "normal", so rather than the computer, for example, being something new, its integrated as part of lives. It changes our footprint in the world and, therefore, the world.
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How To Become A Certified Virtual Classroom Teacher - 1 views

edudemic.com/...fied-virtual-classroom-teacher #EDUC251 eLearning certification
shared by Jennifer Dalby on 07 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Jennifer Dalby on 07 Feb 11
     
    I'll withhold judgment on this. What do you think?
  • Joy LaJeret on 07 Feb 11
     
    I have one thought about this. California has been ahead of WA when it comes to turning out online teacher/instructors for community colleges. I could get the training I am now, at the U of CA (not certain which one) and at U of Utah; but this program on BC is new.
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2011 Horizon Report - 4 views

net.educause.edu/...HR2011.pdf elearning research
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  • Jennifer Dalby on 08 Feb 11
     
    I haven't had time to read it yet, but it's an important read for me each year.
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What Constitutes an Open-Book Exam in the Digital Age? - 6 views

henryjenkins.org/..._constitutes_an_open-book.html #EDUC251 eLearning assessment
shared by Jennifer Dalby on 07 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Jennifer Dalby on 07 Feb 11
     
    Jenkins is an important player in this online learning stuff. This piece brings up some important considerations. We will be talking about assessment next week, but I wanted to toss this to you now, to get your gears spinning.
  • Joy LaJeret on 07 Feb 11
     
    I cannot understand why he is so worried about open book testing of indivduals; rather than thinking about how to set up a test that would allow all contributors to weigh in and answer. What is the point of the process of collabrative learning then? Or am I just naive?
  • ann stephens on 08 Feb 11
     
    One response to this article was the practical - give the questions before the exam and the students can do whatever they want prior to the test, but when the test is actually given, make it closed book. This emphasizes information retnetion more than information retreival, which seems to be his concern. That being said - whether a test or not - his points are interesting and requires a great deal of thinking through. Allowing collaboration, for example as Joy profers, during a short course time brings up the issue of bandwidth and accessibility, so a teacher needs to spend time on logistics.
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Instructure Canvas 7 Cheers & 7 Critiques - 3 views

www.insidehighered.com/...anvas_lms_7_cheers_7_critiques Instructure Canvas
shared by Joy LaJeret on 07 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Jennifer Dalby on 07 Feb 11
     
    Thanks for sharing this!
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  • Joy LaJeret on 07 Feb 11
     
    Your welcome, Jen.
  • ann stephens on 08 Feb 11
     
    I liked that the platform is integrated in social networks that many students would be using. Also, Ruby on Rails - the underlying technology indicated in the article - is very powerful, but it is an open source product and would want to be sure about technology support works. That being said, this highlighted to me how complex and difficult chosing a LMS is.
  • Jennifer Dalby on 08 Feb 11
     
    They release the code open source, but this is a hosted, supported product with fees for service. I'm definitely going to spend more time checking it out.
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Fake iPhone Text - 2 views

www.fakeiphonetext.com #EDUC251 infoliteracy
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  • Jennifer Dalby on 07 Feb 11
     
    A tool to be aware of.
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  • Joy LaJeret on 07 Feb 11
     
    What kind of folly is this?
  • Jennifer Dalby on 07 Feb 11
     
    Well, we know anything we put out there can be copied and passed around. Now we know easily it can be forged.
  • Joy LaJeret on 07 Feb 11
     
    Good Grief! That makes me think twice.
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MOOCs - 1 views

www.elearnspace.org/...index.htm #EDUC251 eLearning onlinelearning teaching
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  • ann stephens on 07 Feb 11
     
    As an optional resource, a youtube introduction to MOOCs ((Massive, Open Online Courses) is given. As I understand it, MOOCs the "term" basically describing a collaborative "blog" on a topic. The concept is that courses can be offered with everyone who wants to to participate and/or take the course. The above link, I think is a good example of a MOOC and it is on eLearning. Similiar to EDU251 there is content proferred, as well as ways to comments and connect to other relavent websites. You can explore the site, but liked the definition of elearning: Elearning is the use of any type of technology in improving learning. At it's most basic level, it is email...at it's most advanced, it is an online course (or simulation, or virtual reality, or...well, you get the point)
  • Joy LaJeret on 07 Feb 11
     
    Oh darn, I have to go to work. I will look at this one too.
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Flickr Creative Commons - 6 views

www.flickr.com/creativecommons #EDUC251 creativecommons
shared by Jennifer Dalby on 05 Feb 11 - Cached
  • Jennifer Dalby on 05 Feb 11
     
    You can search for photos to use for free. Please read the license categories on the right to understand how to attribute the creator. Once you find a license you like, you can click the link to search those images. Most of these are fine for non commercial use as long as you give attribution referencing the original creator.
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  • ann stephens on 06 Feb 11
     
    A great collection of pictures! I added one from Bellevue to my ePortfolio.
  • Joy LaJeret on 06 Feb 11
     
    I am still trying to figure how to download and upload pic from that source to my blogs!
  • ann stephens on 07 Feb 11
     
    I right-clicked on the picture I wanted. A pulldown screen comes down and selected "save picture as...".
  • Joy LaJeret on 07 Feb 11
     
    Oh, thanks Ann. How simple it is!
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Learning Module 4 Self-Check - 2 views

spreadsheets.google.com/viewform #EDUC251
shared by Mary Ann Simpson on 07 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Mary Ann Simpson on 07 Feb 11
     
    Just a short survey from Mary Ann for Learning Module 4.
  • ann stephens on 07 Feb 11
     
    I liked the question about what you learned this week. I reflected on what I had learned (for me, the main one was the Wiggins model). I am already focusing on this week's activities and thinking about this question allowed me to be more integrated with the learning process.
  • Joy LaJeret on 07 Feb 11
     
    That is funny. We used the same form Mary Ann.
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The girl who stopped the world for just one moment in time in 1992. - 1 views

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  • Joy LaJeret on 06 Feb 11
     
    This is what teaching is all about. Each day I see children exposed to violence and see the injustices when they and the survivor are sent to the streets for lack of housing. They must go to food banks to beg for food. Really! These are the children we are teaching to tackle the worlds problems when we are gone. How is our behavior different from our words?
  • Joy LaJeret on 06 Feb 11
  • Mary Ann Simpson on 07 Feb 11
     
    Joy, I can't believe I never saw this video! She said everything I have always believed and in a very small way, tried to inculcate in my organization of an environmental program I used to direct. "Walking gently on the Earth" was our theme--kids began to "get it" as they participated in the week's activities. I feel inspired to get busy with that once again. . . I'm thinking. . . . Thank you, my friend, for this renewed awareness. It definitely percolates well with my Course Framework on Biodiversity and Sustainability. We shall see what we shall see. . . .
  • Jennifer Dalby on 07 Feb 11
     
    What's funny, is that when this video was put online, it was passed around and most people didn't know it was an older video. Once we became aware of that, everyone wanted to know what she's up to now. She started getting a lot of speaking gigs, so you can find more of her presentations online now.
  • Joy LaJeret on 07 Feb 11
     
    Your welcome Mary Ann. I did see several videos with her newest info on you tube. I did include one link above.
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iPhone ECG case shows off the wonders of medicine and consumer gadgetry combined - 2 views

www.intomobile.com/...iphone-ecg-heart-monitor #EDUC251 iPhone healthcare
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  • Jennifer Dalby on 07 Feb 11
     
    Just something interesting.
  • Joy LaJeret on 07 Feb 11
     
    Wow! That is very interesting.
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Helen's survey - 2 views

spreadsheets.google.com/viewform #EDUC251 online teaching
shared by Helen Maynard on 07 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Helen Maynard on 07 Feb 11
     
    My first attempt which covers the basics. Please complete when you have finished this week's module. Now I need to figure out where to find your responses!!!
  • Jennifer Dalby on 07 Feb 11
     
    When you go back into google docs, you'll see a link to the spreadsheet where the results end up.
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Knowledge Versus Understanding - 1 views

edgeregenerate.com/?p=477 #EDUC251 knowledge understanding
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  • Jennifer Dalby on 03 Feb 11
     
    "When students understand, they become able to apply the concepts learned beyond the original context of the classroom. The student's capability and capacity to see underlying patterns is enabled, which allows the student to recognize the same patterns in other arenas."
  • Joy LaJeret on 04 Feb 11
     
    Got it and probably had it all along.
  • Joy LaJeret on 06 Feb 11
     
    In fact, this is exactly the type of learning the doctoral program was guiding me toward as a professor. However, it was not brought out this way and was grasped subconsciously. I could not participate in Teaching Assistantships during those years.
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A Virtual World Video - 5 views

www.archive.org/...vw_traveler-avatarax Virtual World
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  • Joy LaJeret on 04 Feb 11
     
    Just click and play. If you want to know what kinds of skills your students need and will be using in just 5 years from now, it may be important to follow futurists and developing technology...for instance, holograms and touchable holograms which will certainly benefit medical students. I had the experience of a robotic operation using the De Vinci robot. Only a handful of doctors were able to operate this way. Mine was a prof at UW, a respected researcher with Fred Hutch and a practicing surgeon with Swedish. Swedish was, at the time, the only hospital with that capability. He sat at a computer...several feet away and operated by looking at the computer.
  • Joy LaJeret on 06 Feb 11
     
    P.S. It was major sugery and I was sent home the next day. I was back to work in less that two weekends and one work week!
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Example of Elluminate Guest Presenter - 1 views

sas.elluminate.com/mr.jnlp
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  • Jennifer Dalby on 04 Feb 11
     
    In our virtual office hours last night, we talked about what it's like having a guest presenter in an Elluminate session. This is just an example of one who visited our Health IT class. Only 1 student showed, so it's a bit awkward.
  • Joy LaJeret on 06 Feb 11
     
    I was happy to join a session in Elluminate that Jennifer hosted. It was truly an interesting exerience. Her guests were well versed on the subject matter and it was a bit too short at about an hour.
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Our Portfolios - 3 views

www.google.com/...68263222829%2Fbundle%2FEDUC251 #EDUC251 portfolio
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  • Jennifer Dalby on 02 Feb 11
     
    This is a Google Reader bundle of the portfolios I've seen so far. (Bruce, are you going to use your blog site? I need to grab an RSS feed to add you.)
  • Bruce Wolcott on 03 Feb 11
     
    Jennifer, Sorry I'm running late on this, but I do have a link for your Google Reader list at: http://web2chronicle.wordpress.com/ This should bring up my most current post. Thanks... : )
  • Joy LaJeret on 05 Feb 11
     
    I loved your site and the things you wrote. I can see your expertise. I write;but I have a totally different style. I want to take your course; but first I want to know if I will be able to take a story, see the one I wrote in my blog, and make it a video. I think story telling is a valuable teaching aid. I taught 3-12 graders religion in moral and ethic classes at a local catholic school, after hours for some 15 years. The textbook manual and other references pretty much laid everything out...including teaching aids. Today, technology has transformed what I have learned in the pass.
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