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J.Randolph Radney

"This topic is impossible!": Social Media as Research Panacea? (Part II) « Th... - 1 views

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diigo

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  • Rather than having vague status-update conversations with students, where I’m typically assured that everything is “going well” (a response which, in its vagueness, I can neither confirm nor deny), I, by virtue of being connected to my students’ Diigo networks, would be able to look at their sources, and more importantly, their annotations for those sources, and give them specific feedback about their level of engagement and depth of research. Not only would this ability allow me to see what progress they’ve made on their research, but it will also help students develop a clearer sense of what constitutes valuable active reading and how one distinguishes salient, useful information from that which is less valuable.
    • J.Randolph Radney
      J.Randolph Radney on 19 Oct 09
       
      This feature would allow me to better coach students in the research process.
  • as I imagine that all students will be connected to one another’s Diigo networks, those working on related topics would be able to share ideas, sources, and insights about their progress. At present, I sense that each student perceives his or her research process to be a very isolated one that is disconnected from his or her peers. By employing a network where students could see the notes their peers have made about the sources they’re reading (though Diigo does offer a “private note” feature, which keeps one’s comments hidden from view by others) as well as those that might be potentially useful, the students will hopefully feel less disconnected and despondent about their progress when they hit a speed bump, and instead will look to their peers for guidance and insight.
  • J.Randolph Radney on 19 Oct 09
     
    "However, perhaps the most exciting element of Diigo from my perspective, is the insight it will give me as a teacher into the students' research process. Rather than having vague status-update conversations with students, where I'm typically assured that everything is "going well" (a response which, in its vagueness, I can neither confirm nor deny), I, by virtue of being connected to my students' Diigo networks, would be able to look at their sources, and more importantly, their annotations for those sources, and give them specific feedback about their level of engagement and depth of research. Not only would this ability allow me to see what progress they've made on their research, but it will also help students develop a clearer sense of what constitutes valuable active reading and how one distinguishes salient, useful information from that which is less valuable."
  • J.Randolph Radney on 19 Oct 09
     
    This is an evaluation of social media tools for classroom use.
J.Randolph Radney

Organic Education | approaching learning from the ground up. - 0 views

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textbook rental english

shared by J.Randolph Radney on 04 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Originally an Iowa State University classifieds site, Chegg.com soon realized big saving could be had by students as a textbook rental company. Now, going into it’s sixth year as a company, Chegg is seeing returns over $10m – most likely due to students’ wising up toward traditional textbook price gouging tactics and a push for more environmentally friendly business practices.
  • J.Randolph Radney on 04 Dec 09
     
    In part two of the English final examination, students will be required to outline, summarize, and/or evaluate an essay. The discussion on this linked web page is the sort of essay that will be provided on the day of the exam for students to respond to.
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

Singular 'They': a Footnote - Lingua Franca - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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shared by J.Randolph Radney on 14 May 13 - No Cached
  • As English teachers, one of our responsibilities is to ensure that students master the conventions of standard edited English, so that they will not be judged in negative ways based on their formal writing. Whether it is fair or not, others (including other teachers and future employers) may judge a construction like singular they as “wrong”—as evidence that a writer is not well trained and “does not know better.”
  • I tell students that they are welcome to use singular they  in writing for my class, but they should footnote it the first time they use it and in the footnote explain their rationale for using singular they.
  • A fundamental goal of writing instruction, including instruction in grammar and style, is to encourage students to be highly aware of the decisions they are making as writers, from the level of the word, phrase, and sentence to the terrain of the paragraph and essay as a whole.
J.Randolph Radney

TeachPaperless: Tales of a Third Grade Blogger (or, The Year Social Tech Broke) - 0 views

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blogging

shared by J.Randolph Radney on 17 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Turns out their teachers (same ones I wrote this letter to) are crazy about the idea of their students blogging. And so, they've given my boys permission to do their weekly home/school connections via their blogs.
  • J.Randolph Radney on 17 Sep 09
     
    It's time to catch up to these Grade 3 students. :) radney
  • J.Randolph Radney on 20 Sep 09
     
    If Grade 3 students blog regularly, why can't we learn it?
J.Randolph Radney

TeachPaperless: What to Do When Students Abuse Social Technology - 0 views

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blogging abuse

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  • The parents need to understand that social technology is not going away. And they need to understand that it is in their own best interest that their kids understand both how to use it and how to be responsible digital citizens.
  • J.Randolph Radney on 20 Sep 09
     
    Sometimes people worry that social media increases our ability to bully one another. In this website, the author seems to advocate responsible use and the teaching of proper social accountability as a remedy for this possibility, rather than an attempt to keep students away from online blogging and similar things.
J.Randolph Radney

eLearn: Case Studies - Threading, Tagging, and Higher-Order Thinking - 0 views

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web2.0 higher-order thinking thinking

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  • J.Randolph Radney on 28 Sep 09
     
    Where does English fit in as a course in terms of lower-order and higher-order thinking?
  • J.Randolph Radney on 04 Dec 09
     
    In part two of the English final examination, students will be required to outline, summarize, and/or evaluate an essay. The discussion on this linked web page is the sort of essay that will be provided on the day of the exam for students to respond to. While this particular item is much longer than the essays that will be provided, students can still attempt to outline and summarize portions as practice for the final exam.
J.Randolph Radney

Student Bloggers - 1 views

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blogging student directory

shared by J.Randolph Radney on 24 Sep 09 - Cached
  • J.Randolph Radney on 24 Sep 09
     
    This is a meta-blog (i.e. a directory of blogs), a resource to help people find blogs in a particular subject area.
J.Randolph Radney

Teaching in Social and Technological Networks « Connectivism - 0 views

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teaching connectivism networks social eLearning writing english

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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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Fortunately, the experience of wayfinding is now augmented by social systems.
  • 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.
Jak McKinnon

The IT Student Blog » Blog Archive » Work in trance - 1 views

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A comparison of IT Pros and Music Styles

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  • Jak McKinnon on 06 Oct 09
     
    This is blog about how IT students and professionals tend to like the same genre of music in large numbers
J.Randolph Radney

Using Wordle in the classroom (1 of 2) - ProfHacker.com - 0 views

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wordle classroom technology

shared by J.Randolph Radney on 14 Nov 09 - Cached
  • it’s now standard practice, for example, to require students in a first-year-composition class to know how to use a word processor and to learn how to make good use of a database: those are not considered “computing skills” anymore. They’re just skills.
  • we’ve long assumed that students become better writers by reading a great deal; and we assume that experience at writing makes them better readers. For many generations, these 2 sides of the textual coin have been taught hand-in-hand: we don’t teach students to be consumers of words and then maybe later teach them (or teach only some of them, depending on their major or their future career) how to create words. Instead, they learn those skills simultaneously.
  • J.Randolph Radney on 14 Nov 09
     
    The site as a whole is devoted to discussing Wordle (the program that produced the word-posters displayed on the MOODLE course websites for both 050 and 060), but notice what is quoted about computer skills (the first quote) and the connection between reading ability and writing ability (the second).
J.Randolph Radney

Next Time, Fail Better - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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shared by J.Randolph Radney on 09 May 12 - No Cached
  • Humanities students are not used to failure. They want to get it right the first time. When they are new to the game, they want to get good grades on what are essentially first drafts. Once they learn how much work it is to write and edit a really good essay, their goals shift—from getting A's on papers written the night before to getting A's and making the difficult process look effortless.
  • I had a colleague who had a poster in his dining room with Samuel Beckett's "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." We may tell ourselves that, but we don't tell our students. Maybe we should post it in our classrooms, not our dining rooms.
J.Randolph Radney

TeachPaperless: Fountain of Youth: Reflections on Teaching Uses of Social Tech to Young... - 1 views

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  • Because we need our teachers to understand that it's not about 'using tech', but rather is about fully engaging in the reality of the 21st century. And we need them to understand that -- if anything -- social tech is a fountain of youth when it comes to learning and ideas.
    • J.Randolph Radney
      J.Randolph Radney on 02 Oct 09
       
      The claim implied here is that the new Web 2.0 technology like social media, social bookmarking, blogs, and the like are not going to go away. Rather, they are going to become the paradigm for social interaction at a distance. How may the development of such technology and its use in classes encourage greater interest among students in what is taught? How can such technology make it easier for students to complete coursework?
Alison French

Go Ask Alice!: Starting college at 30 - coping with stress? - 0 views

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  • Alison French on 07 Jan 10
     
    I thought this was interesting, because I am an older student !
J.Randolph Radney

YouTube - lynda.com: Moodle Essential Training for Students - 1 views

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lynda.com moodle student training

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  • J.Randolph Radney on 13 Jan 10
     
    This is the introductory video from a series designed to help you better understand how MOODLE works in courses.
J.Randolph Radney

Read all about it: online learning facing 80% attrition rates - 1 views

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attrition english

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  • J.Randolph Radney on 04 Dec 09
     
    In part two of the English final examination, students will be required to outline, summarize, and/or evaluate an essay. The discussion on this linked web page is the sort of essay that will be provided on the day of the exam for students to respond to.
J.Randolph Radney

Technical writing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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english writing

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  • J.Randolph Radney on 04 Dec 09
     
    In part two of the English final examination, students will be required to outline, summarize, and/or evaluate an essay. The discussion on this linked web page is the sort of essay that will be provided on the day of the exam for students to respond to.
J.Randolph Radney

Native American History Summary - 2 views

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  • J.Randolph Radney on 04 Dec 09
     
    In part two of the English final examination, students will be required to outline, summarize, and/or evaluate an essay. The discussion on this linked web page is the sort of essay that will be provided on the day of the exam for students to respond to.
J.Randolph Radney

Native American History - 0 views

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native thinking english

shared by J.Randolph Radney on 04 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Native Americans suffered a collective tragedy over the course of the nineteenth century. But their stories cannot be simply condensed into one master narrative of defeat and decimation. To understand what happened to "The American Indian," we need to look at the lives of the many Indians––and whites––that contributed to this multi-faceted story.
    • J.Randolph Radney
      J.Randolph Radney on 04 Dec 09
       
      A major question concerns who will be allowed voices to tell these stories.
  • In 1783, the United States was a new nation of about 3 million people living, for the most part, along the Atlantic seaboard. Native Americans, perhaps numbering around 600,000, controlled most lands west of the Appalachian Mountains. By 1890, a bit more than a century later, the United States stretched from coast to coast and was home to some 66 million people. Only 250,000 Indians remained, most of them living on reservations holding just a fraction of the land they once controlled.
    • J.Randolph Radney
      J.Randolph Radney on 04 Dec 09
       
      Not only is this true, but the United States of 1783 needed the help of its indigenous people, whereas, by 1890 it tried to believe it did not.
  • J.Randolph Radney on 04 Dec 09
     
    I would like to receive two kinds of commentary on this set of web sites. First of all, could those of you with connection to First Nations communities comment in regard to the value of these pages? Secondly, could any of you comment in regard to differences you believe could be documented regarding how indigenous peoples were treated in Canada compared to what is documented here concerning the United States?
  • J.Randolph Radney on 04 Dec 09
     
    In part two of the English final examination, students will be required to outline, summarize, and/or evaluate an essay. The discussion on this linked web page is the sort of essay that will be provided on the day of the exam for students to respond to.
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