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short video (<2 minutes) on how knowledge is created in a MOOC. How does the MOOC approach resemble/depart from existing IL-SLI design? How should it affect what we try to do this year in IL-SLI for IL teachers? For IL students? Does the MOOC label help or hurt explaining IL-SLI intent and set-up?

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I stumbled across this trailer called One Day on Earth where people around the world filmed examples of humanity. There is apparently an 11/11/11 worldwide event planned. Two ideas: any desire to alert schools of its existence so they could participate in November? Or select a date in time for kids at SLI schools to do their own 1 minute videotaping of humanity in their communities to have it come together in a 3 minute composite at the Conference? Or use it for an even bigger project unifying SLI students? http://vimeo.com/26378195

Excellent description of what we tried to start with first year of IL-SLI--now I know we are onto something!

Article by Rob Jenkins, August 16, 2011 on Improving Online Success for beginning college students. See excerpt below. Makes me think about how MCNC's SLI work has introduced? equipped? advanced? students' and teachers' online working skills, especially the push to use social media. And how all MCHSs and ECHSs should attend to this skill development for their students.

Constructing a Discourse of Inquiry: Findings from a Five-year Ethnography at One Elementary School research article by Louise Jennings and Heidi Mills, 2009. Very interesting study for what they are studying and where they are studying it--SC! Resembles our SLI work; need to read the study in full.

Great presentation on how to use Adobe Connect for synchronous learning by K-8 students and Encarde, a way to communicate with students and parents and keep them responding to deadlines on projects without using email, that most people read late or not at all. This virtual model could also work for SLI.

Douglas A. Guiffrida writes about Theories of Human Development That Enhance an Understanding of the College Transition Process, 2009. Could have implications for SLI curriculum development. "To encourage the moratorium that Erikson believed is necessary for establishing secure identities, colleges need to provide academic curricula that encourage students to think about the issues most important to their identity development, which can include in-depth study of diverse religious beliefs, political ideologies, career opportunities, and gender role attitudes. College student affairs personnel should provide social opportunities that encourage students to connect with a diverse range of peers and activities to test and challenge both new and old ways of thinking about themselves and their place in the world."

Website for using social media to create a ladder of engagement to inspire people to take action and change. The question for MCNC is how to create a ladder of learning engagement through the SLI I-Lab.

Title: Companies are Erecting In-House Social Networks, June 26, 2011, This article intrigued me from the get-go because: 1) it speaks to the desire for people to be connected socially in their work; 2) it provides forums (opportunities) for the distantly-connected worker(s)/network member(s) to 'trickle-up' by sharing innovative practice/ideas; 3) it resembles Facebook for its ease of participation and entry level; 4) it creates a social network, which is the beginning of conversation, which is the beginning of collaboration, no? :-) We know that high school students LOVE the SLI because it gives them the opportunity to meet and greet and sometimes talk about meaningful social justice issues. But the hook is social, then learning. We have been talking about trying Facebook this year to ease the way in for up to 200 kids, but many school districts do not allow students to access Facebook from school computers. Maybe we need to explore Yammer or Chatter or look to see if there is a comparable open source app?

I love this video--it gives me the terminology to explain this new age learning approach to IL teachers--orient, declare, network, cluster, focus--for the long trip and shorter side-trips.