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Crotchety article challenging advocates of open publishing, about the cost of storing, managing and distributing digital goods, Annoying tone, but some useful points to consider. "Even beyond just their power requirements, digital goods have particular traits that make them difficult to store effectively, challenging to distribute well, and much more effective when handled by paid professionals."

"A total of 125 students taking a first year seminar course for pre-health professional majors participated in this study (70 in the experimental group and 55 in the control group). With the experimental group, Twitter was used for various types of academic and co-curricular discussions. Engagement was quantified by using a 19-item scale based on the National Survey of Student Engagement. To assess differences in engagement and grades, we used mixed effects analysis of variance (ANOVA) models, with class sections nested within treatment groups. We also conducted content analyses of samples of Twitter exchanges. The ANOVA results showed that the experimental group had a significantly greater increase in engagement than the control group, as well as higher semester grade point averages. Analyses of Twitter communications showed that students and faculty were both highly engaged in the learning process in ways that transcended traditional classroom activities."

"This blog post provides background information on digital literacy and argues that digital literacy needs to go beyond student teaching and ensure that staff and researchers, who may wish to continue their professional activities when they leave their current institution, are able to migrate content and services to the Cloud, so that content and tools can be reused once access to institutional services is no longer available."

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Description of why to flip PD sessions.

Framework looking at teaching expertise.

Post on how to design PD so we can determine if it worked.

"A few changes in my professional profile at UBC in recent weeks… My old Office of Learning Technology has merged with the former Centre for Teaching and Academic Growth to become the Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Technology." So maybe we're just following UBCs lead?

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NZ association for professionals working in Flexible open and networking education blog site

"VeMentoring" is the Vocational e-Learning Mentors' network. The network is made up of Vocational Education and Training (VET) professionals who collaborate to share and showcase educational technologies in Blended and Distributed Delivery (BDD).

Part of a larger faculty-specific professional development portal.

"As firmly as the person at the podium is established in our classrooms, s/he seems even more tenaciously present in workshops and conference sessions... So what [would] you do if you didn't lecture?"

Post arguing that teachers should keep a professional distance from their students. I think I profoundly disagree with this post, not around the act of staying distant but about the power differential built into his argument. Acting ethically and modelling good and realistic practice in life is more fundamental to a useful educational stance. This post refers I think to non-adults and emotional transference is something that teachers need to be conscious of. I'm not arguing that teachers should friend all their pupils online, rather that his reasons for this are flawed.

Thom & Vickel won best paper at ALTC2011! I think it was the QR code.

"This the 5th annual survey of learning tools that I have built based on the contributions of learning professionals worldwide. The 2011 list will be finalised on 13 November 2011."<--reason enough to postpone the cool tools workshop until mid November?

Article on the use of Twitter in education. Notes that most used by educators as part of a professional learning community and less for learing by students. Has +ve and -ve quotes.

Professional Advisory by Ontario College of Teachers on the use of social media. Don't think I agree with it all but lots of reasonable stuff.

Links to lots of useful rubrics.

" the ACE Framework to guide our decision-making and professional development planning. ACE stands for Adaptability, Connection, and Equity. ACE elevates three characteristics that are clear, context-sensitive, values-driven, and mission-aligned; we can use them to plan assignment-, course-, and institution-level responses to crisis (such as COVID-19) in the areas of our university that are connected to teaching and learning."