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Jennifer Dalby

Sick note: Faking illness online | Münchausen by internet | Life and style | ... - 1 views

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    My friend Chris Lott shared this with me to pair with the reddit illness posting.  Important stuff to know when you're dealing with online communities.
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    I think it was Barnum and Bailey that said, "...there is a sucker born every minute." However, history disputes this quote and states it was said by a competitor of P.T. Barnum .http://www.historybuff.com/library/refbarnum.html
Jennifer Dalby

51 hours left to live : IAmA - 2 views

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    This was shared by professor Alec Couros on Twitter this morning.  skim through the comments and see how many people are responding to help this person have a virtual world tour before they pass.  It's certainly interesting to observe. Of course, you never know if this is a truthful post, but it's interesting to see how it is handled by online society.
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    Hmmm..rather disturbing. I think committing suicide is a violation of everything I value about humanity and life. Yet, I can only imagine some of the horrors this person has gone through and must go through to die. My son made his decision and I can never know if he regretted it at the tender age of 19. I am not certain why some of us have to suffer as this person is. I can not say what my choice would be, if it were me and it easily could be. But I do believ,e if there is a God, somehow there would or should be a purpose to the suffering.
Bruce Wolcott

Module 7 Activity - Join an online community - 3 views

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    For the past year or so, I've been meaning to join up with a group exploring the use of multiparticipant virtual worlds for education. This activity gave me the chance to check out one of the best resource sites for this topic - RezEd at .http://rezedhub.ning.com/ . More information regarding my experience is posted on my blog. If you watch my RezEd presentation, please remember to turn on your computer audio - otherwise it won't make much sense... :-)
Helen Maynard

Evidence of Learning for Module 6.4 - 5 views

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    I discovered something important as I went through this mental exercise. Wiggins would be proud!
Jennifer Dalby

TED: Ideas worth spreading | TED Ed | Register your interest - 0 views

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    "In a few weeks, TED will be launching an online forum. We're calling it the TED-ED Brain Trust. We're seeking the expertise of visionary educators, students, organizations, filmmakers & other creative professionals to guide, galvanize & ultimately lead this exciting new initiative."
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    Thanks for the tip... I signed up! This looks like an educational community with some extraordinary promise.
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    Thanks for sharing this intentionally forming community. How exciting! The Ken Robinson lecture on education "killing the imagination" I show to my students because it's all about holistic learning. I will definately sign up for this online forum. Thanks for posting.
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    I have always found the TED site and videos very helpful...they have a purpose and I can find some great videos for courses.
Jennifer Dalby

The New Toolkit | the human network - 2 views

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    "The Age of Connection now takes its place alongside these earlier epochs in humanity's story.  We are being retribalized, in the midst of rising urbanization.  The dynamic individuality of the city confronts the static conformity of the tribe.  This basic tension forms the fuel of 21st century culture, and will continue to generate both heat and light for at least the next generation.  Human behavior, human beliefs and human relations are all reorganizing themselves around connectivity.  It is here, therefore, that we must begin our analysis of the toolkit."  I haven't had time to read the entire piece, but I can see it makes some important points about human society and connectivity. It's pretty deep, so I want to read it when I've got time to let it sink in.
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    Good discussion of why we have a need to be connected. I remember studying McLuan back in my undergraduate days...medium is the message as more important than the content of the message. The reference to linguistics is interesting...we have need for language for our safety and socialization.
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    I too am a fan of McLuan's - presentation becomes part of the content being communicated. I thought this article gave a good description of the impact of the "toolkit" - hyper-everything, but didn't clearly see the point the author was trying to make.
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    http://www.economist.com/node/18114327 - yet another interesting article in the Economist about how technology is making us one world. In this case, it is how technology will be used to by us individually to define manufacturing and how things are made. " Three-dimensional printing makes it as cheap to create single items as it is to produce thousands and thus undermines economies of scale. It may have as profound an impact on the world as the coming of the factory did."
Jennifer Dalby

Daily Kos: I Don't Want to be a Teacher Any More - 7 views

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    This is a powerful post. I'll let you read it and see what you think.
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    That is very sad and that is why, maybe, we are having such problems in this country. I think what hapened to this teacher is ghastly!
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    I have a friend who worked in high tech and made the transition to teaching because of her interest. In addition to what was echoed here, her major issue has to do with the administration component of the job. Over the past 15 years, the percentage of administrators to teachers has risen and there has been an increase in mandatory reports, meetings, etc. I am not a full-time classroom teacher, but have substituted and what is very markedly different than when I was in school is how much social issues impact the classroom. Parental availability is tight and students come to school without the basic. If you add on that teachers are now also social workers, one can see how a teacher becomes overloaded. In the video about the experiment in India with the computer, he prefaces the experiment with his observation that students that are in higher risk areas seem to benefit more from technology introduction, but in practice it is often the reverse, with computers going to more affluent schools.
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    Excellent example of why our country scores poorly on many global studies. We do not prioritize and protect our educational institutions from some of the major declining social and economic issues we are currently facing. We shouldn't allow our school systems to suffer from current declining tax bases. This teacher's account is an excellent testimony of what results!!! and this scenario is what many of our classroom teachers are facing daily. Imagine having to face a classroom of 30+ kids everyday, by yourself, under these working conditions! Very sad . . .
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    An interesting comment regarding global competitiveness. It is actually my understanding that some countries - like Japan - who do better than the U.S. in math, science, and literacy - actually have larger class sizes and that per student expenditure is lower. The culture, however, supports education. Teacher's are honored.
Jennifer Dalby

Mrs. Raisdana's World: Video Tutorials - 4 views

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    An example of a teacher who is using screencasts on her blog.
Jennifer Dalby

Balancing a healthy life with technology. « Teaching with Technology - 1 views

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    This is an interesting student post about balancing technology in our lives.
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    http://www.newsweek.com/2011/02/27/i-can-t-think.html# - This is an article this week in Newsweek that "The Twitterization of our culture has revoluntioned out lives, but with unintended consequence - over overloaded brains freeze when we have to make decisions".
Susan Kolwitz

eLearning Blog - 1 views

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    This website is geared more toward corporate training vs. higher education. I found it interesting and helpful for me in my role at work.
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    This seems to have a great support on tools, which is always needed and helpful.
Jennifer Dalby

Digital Inclusion Network - 2 views

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    I just discovered this. It might be an interesting community to join. "Welcome to the reborn home of the former DigitalDivide@ listserv - the new Digital Inclusion Network. Join over 350 members from dozens of countries exchanging knowledge on digital inclusion and strategies to close the many digital divides. This network is hosted as part of E-Democracy.org's Ford Foundation-funded "Participation 3.0" and will be used to gather input for our Inclusive Social Media initiative. This is a hybrid e-mail list and web forum with access via Facebook and Twitter. "
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    Since Minnesota is my home state, I decided to join this community. http://forums.e-democracy.org/p/joyannlajeret
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    An interesting, direct way to build political and social awareness through the internet. We really are a global community. Also, it allows - as Joy points out - to remain close to our roots, if we want.
Joy LaJeret

# 7.3 Portfolio Item: Form for Self Check - 5 views

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    Good questions. As I commented in the self-check, the modules sometimes merge for me. Maybe re-iterate the title? I liked the question asking more specifically about non-assigned material. It'd be a good way to get feedback as a teacher on what I might want to add later.
Susan Kolwitz

Centre for learning and performance technologies - 1 views

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    I find it interesting when searchng for examples of technology tools used for online classes that some of the better ones are from outside the US. I have found sites at US universities & colleges, but find the examples up for the public to be from older courses...2005 and earlier.
Jennifer Dalby

The truth about Twitter, Facebook and the uprisings in the Arab world | World news | Th... - 0 views

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    Precisely how we communicate in these moments of historic crisis and transformation is important. The medium that carries the message shapes and defines as well as the message itself. The instantaneous nature of how social media communicate self-broadcast ideas, unlimited by publication deadlines and broadcast news slots, explains in part the speed at which these revolutions have unravelled, their almost viral spread across a region. It explains, too, the often loose and non-hierarchical organisation of the protest movements unconsciously modelled on the networks of the web.
Jennifer Dalby

Technology and the Whole Child - Practical Theory - 4 views

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    "For years, in our schools, teachers have told students that school is preparation for real life - a statement that divorced the meaning of school from the lives kids led in that moment. With the research, creation and networking tools at our disposal, we have the ability to help students see that the lives they lead now have meaning and value, and that school can be a vital and vibrant part of that meaning. We can help students to see the powerful humanity that exists both within them and all around them. And technology can be an essential piece of how we teach and learn about that. "
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    Jennifer, I agree with the following quote from the Chris Lehmann article you cited, with some some additions: With the research, creation and networking tools at our disposal, we have the ability to help students see that the lives they lead now have meaning and value... Ideally, what evolves is our ability to help students find approaches to real world engagement. As computing becomes progressively smaller in size, and more portable, online activities don't need to be limited to sitting behind a computer screen with a mouse. For example, Project Atlas at Harvard is using GPS and hand held devices to augment classes and and create hybrid projects that integrate with the non-virtual world. Ann Steven's account of the teaching/learning community surrounding colon cancer is a great model of web-enhanced knowledge sharing. Another example. I belong to a large social dance community in Seattle that communicates via email, websites, YouTube, Flickr, and Facebook. This is the way that everyone keeps track of current dances, classes, and gossip - such as wedding anniversaries, babies, new arrivals, and departures. For those who teach dancing for a living, participation is essential to maintain a successful business. It's a thriving hybrid teaching and learning community that exists simultaneously online and in the "real world". Just as the Web enhances and supports the dance community, it can be used to sustain and support our classes. Here are a few examples (there are many more) of social dance related sites in Seattle: Northwest Dance Network Century Ballroom WaltzEtcet
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    Bruce, thanks for the acknowledgement. The part of this article that resonated with me was: The true promise of technology does not lie in being able to reproduce - in shinier ways - the things schools have always done. It is difficult to think this way. Creativity often goes into the tools, which are a part of it, but not really a different way of doing things.
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    I read this blog and decided to ponder it a bit. I think not only must schools and institutes of higher learning change the way they think about technology; but they need to consider what it can do and how to incorporate it into international learning, as well. Not only can students learn from each other; but they can broaden their horizons even more with international connections to other students.
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    Joy, good point. The internet allows for international connectivedness that wasn't possible before.
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    I think we will be hearing more about this in 1-3 years Ann.
Joy LaJeret

# 7 Portfolio Presentation: Module 7 - 6 views

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    I have added my page on Wikispace. I have a video I want my learners to view. I have asked them to research the topic and present their blogs, videos and etc.,in Diigo. I have asked them to discuss this Module's question on the need or not for a Silver College similiar to the one in Japan for aging Japanese people. Japan is one step ahead of the U.S. in trying to deal with the many issues and needs of their aging population. Grading or assessment will be determined by the quality of the participation and discussion in Diigo. The Module discussion would be set up to continue for one week and is 25% of that Module's grade. The idea is not to grade the students but to encourage them to research the topic and bring to the discussion some ideas as to whether this is a useful idea or not if applied to the Senior population in America. I will be writing a blog regarding this lesson as well. I have not finished it yet.
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    Joy, I really like the way you set up the assignment related to the short film on how Japan is gaining huge benefits by engaging its senior population. When you think about it, this enlightened Japanese view to making good used of aging citizens isn't controversial at all. Farming retired folks out to finish their lives out in disconnected retirement homes seems so backward, and poorly planned. We should be gathering together all of that life experience through good design, and putting it to good use!
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    I hear you Bruce!
Bruce Wolcott

Module 7 - Course Activity based on learning objective - 3 views

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    This link is to my development of a learning activity that maps to a course learning objective for Module 7. The activity I've chosen to work on for this project is in response to one of the learning objectives for a class called Visual Storytelling (CMST 115) that I'm teaching for Bellevue College. The learning objective (or understanding) I'm addressing is a final project that has students demonstrate their ability to put into practice a selection of visual storytelling skills that were taught during the quarter. This activity was designed to make use of authentic learning principles, derived from the ideas of Marilyn Lombardi - which are available in complete form in her article, Authentic Learning for the 21st Century: an Overview.
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    Very impressive, Bruce! This assessment piece is definitely in line with Lombardi's ideas AND is a perfect showcase for student understanding of the objective you set forth. I imagine your students jumped at the challenge you presented them, producing outstanding work! You continue to inspire me with your thinking and creativity!
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    Thanks for your comments, Mary Ann. One of the big take aways I've gotten from our EDUC 251 class so far, is the idea of relinquishing progressive amounts of control throughout the quarter - so that students at the end are teaching part of the class and demonstrating their acquired skills in some kind of collaborative, hands-on project. I've been exploring this idea over the past few years as I've become more comfortable with my teaching - and both the Boettcher reading and Jennifer's course structure validate this approach. One of the more interesting recommendations for "authentic learning" is having ill-defined goals - meaning that students have to fill in gaps with their own solutions - derived from general or even vague instructions. This enhances creativity, innovative pathways, and problem solving. Cool idea!
Jennifer Dalby

Google Body - Google Labs - 0 views

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    "Google Body is a detailed 3D model of the human body. You can peel back anatomical layers,zoom in, click to identify anatomy, or search for muscles, organs, bones and more. You can alsoshare the exact scene you are viewing by copying and pasting the URL."
Bruce Wolcott

Activity 7.3 Student Activity self-check - 1 views

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    This is the Google form self-check survey for the student activity indicated for Module 7.
Jennifer Dalby

The Edublog Awards - 1 views

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    I'm not a big fan of the awards, but this is a good place to start looking at education blogs by category.  Check out the nominees, as well as the winners for the categories that interest you.  Voting can become a popularity contest, so  I wouldn't suggest the winners are necessarily the best.
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