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Diana Boffa

Blogger: Create your free blog - 1 views

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  • Diana Boffa on 19 Nov 09
     
    When are we suppose to start our own blog ? i am just wondering because we only have 2 weeks left and i feel i dont want to start a blog i am not going to follow up with ..please respond radney.
  • J.Randolph Radney on 20 Nov 09
     
    Hi, Diana! You can start your blog any time from now till the end of the semester. I would like you to email me with your blog once you have started, and I will credit your grade (participation) in the course accordingly. A couple of students have started blogs (but they are both '060 students, so you can still be the first among the '050 students) :)
  • Diana Boffa on 20 Nov 09
     
    I have just started my blog. and would like to let other students know, who havnt started a blog, to think about your URL name that you will use. i am only stating this so that you can possibly get some followers of your blog. i made a hasty decision and just used my name, which i am sure will not draw a crowd. anyway take this into consideration.
J.Randolph Radney

Teaching in Social and Technological Networks « Connectivism - 0 views

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  • Technological networks have transformed prominent businesses sectors: music, television, financial, manufacturing. Social networks, driven by technological networks, have similarly transformed communication, news, and personal interactions. Education sits at the social/technological nexus of change – primed for dramatic transformative change. In recent posts, I’ve argued for needed systemic innovation. I’d like focus more specifically on how teaching is impacted by social and technological networks.
  • social and technological networks subvert the classroom-based role of the teacher. Networks thin classroom walls. Experts are no longer “out there” or “over there”. Skype brings anyone, from anywhere, into a classroom. Students are not confined to interacting with only the ideas of a researcher or theorist. Instead, a student can interact directly with researchers through Twitter, blogs, Facebook, and listservs. The largely unitary voice of the traditional teacher is fragmented by the limitless conversation opportunities available in networks. When learners have control of the tools of conversation, they also control the conversations in which they choose to engage.
  • Course content is similarly fragmented. The textbook is now augmented with YouTube videos, online articles, simulations, Second Life builds, virtual museums, Diigo content trails, StumpleUpon reflections, and so on.
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  • Thoughts, ideas, or messages that the teacher amplifies will generally have a greater probability of being seen by course participants.
  • The following are roles teacher play in networked learning environments: 1. Amplifying 2. Curating 3. Wayfinding and socially-driven sensemaking 4. Aggregating 5. Filtering 6. Modelling 7. Persistent presence
  • Views of teaching, of learner roles, of literacies, of expertise, of control, and of pedagogy are knotted together. Untying one requires untying the entire model.
  • Fortunately, the experience of wayfinding is now augmented by social systems.
  • I found my way through personal trial and error. Today’s social web is no different – we find our way through active exploration. Designers can aid the wayfinding process through consistency of design and functionality across various tools, but ultimately, it is the responsibility of the individual to click/fail/recoup and continue.
  • The curator, in a learning context, arranges key elements of a subject in such a manner that learners will “bump into” them throughout the course. Instead of explicitly stating “you must know this”, the curator includes critical course concepts in her dialogue with learners, her comments on blog posts, her in-class discussions, and in her personal reflections.
  • Sensemaking in complex environments is a social process.
  • Perhaps we need to spend more time in information abundant environments before we turn to aggregation as a means of making sense of the landscape.
  • magine a course where the fragmented conversations and content are analyzed (monitored) through a similar service. Instead of creating a structure of the course in advance of the students starting (the current model), course structure emerges through numerous fragmented interactions. “Intelligence” is applied after the content and interactions start, not before.
  • Aggregation should do the same – reveal the content and conversation structure of the course as it unfolds, rather than defining it in advance.
  • Filtering resources is an important educator role, but as noted already, effective filtering can be done through a combination of wayfinding, social sensemaking, and aggregation. But expertise still matters. Educators often have years or decades of experience in a field. As such, they are familiar with many of the concepts, pitfalls, confusions, and distractions that learners are likely to encounter.
  • To teach is to model and to demonstrate. To learn is to practice and to reflect.”
  • Apprenticeship learning models are among the most effective in attending to the full breadth of learning.
  • Without an online identity, you can’t connect with others – to know and be known. I don’t think I’m overstating the importance of have a presence in order to participate in networks. To teach well in networks – to weave a narrative of coherence with learners – requires a point of presence. As a course progresses, the teacher provides summary comments, synthesizes discussions, provides critical perspectives, and directs learners to resources they may not have encountered before.
  • J.Randolph Radney on 22 Feb 10
     
    Here are some additional concepts that are a part of my approach to teaching.
Danika Bush

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Essay Topics writing interesting

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  • 7. If the people who know you best were asked, would they say you tend to be mostly predictable or unpredictable? Why? Which of these traits do you most value in a friend? Do you tend to follow a set routine or do you often do the same things differently?
  • 9. For $10,000 would you be willing to stand up spontaneously and sing The Star Spangled Banner at the top of your lungs in the middle of a church service?
  • 11. If you were to move to a poor, primitive country, what three things would you most miss from your current life?
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  • 12. What is the biggest lie you’ve ever told? Why? What were the consequences, if any?
  • 14. What is one of the books (other than the Bible) that has had the greatest influence on your life? Why?
  • 34. Do you think people would be surprised about your thought life? How often would you be embarrassed if others knew exactly what was on your mind? Do you think your thought life is better or worse than most of the people in your circle of friends? Why?
  • Danika Bush on 13 Jan 10
     
    I like writing essays on the highlighted topics just for practice. For me, writing these interesting essays is somewhat fun.
  • Emmy-Lou Sill on 13 Jan 10
     
    very great find! love it wish i had found it! thanks for telling me diana! <3
Emmy-Lou Sill

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  • Emmy-Lou Sill on 31 Mar 10
     
    Olympic Video made for the fans!!!!! its soo goood! i almost cried! we made and broke records here on our home soil ;p i thought this group on facebook is awsome! i follow it!! and comment on it regalarly <3 enjoy!!!
Emmy Sill

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  • Emmy Sill on 08 Oct 09
     
    How to lose a pound a week, Weight Loss, Get Healthy, lose a pound a week, lose weight, weekly weightloss, Weight Loss, Simply add exercise; subtract food. Here are two weeks' worth of ideas to get started!
J.Randolph Radney

Lesson Plans: Writing - Combining Ideas to Write Paragraphs - How to Write in English - 0 views

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shared by J.Randolph Radney on 09 Oct 09 - Cached
  • This lesson focuses on helping students develop a strategy for combining various ideas into well formed sentences which then combine to produce effective descriptive paragraphs.
  • J.Randolph Radney on 09 Oct 09
     
    As I followed Daryl's bookmark (Thanks, Daryl!) to this site, I found this page offering help for people who are having trouble getting the hang of what to include and what to leave out when they write a paragraph. This material (notice the exercises) may also help when students are considering whether or not to begin a new paragraph (in essay writing) or to continue without a paragraph break.
Emmy Sill

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  • Emmy Sill on 22 Oct 09
     
    This is cool, this is a new blog im going to follow
J.Randolph Radney

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  • When you work it right, writer’s block is your secret weapon to becoming a better and more resilient writer. And when your ability to write is what pays the bills, that’s gold.
  • face the fear that any act of writing brings.
  • use writer’s block as a signal to stop and reflect on what you fear and why, because if you don’t acknowledge the fear, you’ll never be able to face it. All it takes to move through fear is facing it, feeling it. Saying to yourself, “Okay, this is scary. But it still needs to be done.”
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  • Take a blank sheet of paper and write down a one-line summary of what you think you’re supposed to be writing.
  • Write down all the ideas and opinions about that topic
  • put that page aside because that’s not the one that’s going to turn your block into a weapon. (In fact, it’s the one that will keep you stuck.)
  • Get another blank sheet of paper. Again, write down what you think you should be writing in the center of the page.
  • Dig deep into what you have to say, what you think, and what your opinion is, stripped away from all of those from the first sheet. Put it all out on the page, and take more pages if you need to. Remember, there is no one to judge you and your task is to write without any reference to the ideas or opinions from that first sheet, but write only from within you.
  • Each time you unblock yourself by writing despite your fears, it builds confidence. You realize, “Hey, I’ve got a lot to say! And I’ve got a unique position!”
  • You teach yourself that even though your job requires you to write to and for other people, you’re really doing it for yourself
  • To be a resilient and fierce writer, you need to write despite your fears. And you need signals, such as writer’s block, to help uncover your fears so you can face them.
  • J.Randolph Radney on 30 Oct 09
     
    For those of you who find the writing for this class too much to handle: Read this; read it several times; try to follow it's advice.
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