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Keith Hamon

I AM A LIAR!: Recap - 1 views

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  • Keith Hamon on 24 Jun 10
     
    In this blog, I want to share the practice of lying for learning and its benefits or shortcomings to me as a teacher and my students as learners. Along the way I will share the lies/deceptions and the rational for them. I will be writing this blog during the Spring Semester 2010 and will conclude the blog with an analysis of the benefits and shortcomings of lying for learning at the end of the 2010 school year.
Keith Hamon

Learning with 'e's: Anatomy of a PLE - 0 views

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  • Keith Hamon on 09 Aug 10
     
    Whilst Cloud Learning Environments (Web 2.0 tools) will not fully address all of the tensions between Managed Learning Environments and Personal Learning Environments, we argue that they provide a tentative bridge to provide the best of both worlds in terms of affordances and interoperability.
Keith Hamon

Response to: 'Anatomy of a PLE' | Mark Smithers - 0 views

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  • Keith Hamon on 09 Aug 10
     
    I firmly believe that the PLE is a combination of tools that are wholly owned by the student and should be located outside of the institution for several reasons:
Keith Hamon

Dr. Helen Barrett's Electronic Portfolios - 0 views

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  • Keith Hamon on 09 Aug 10
     
    Great site for exploring the concept of ePortfolios
Keith Hamon

Make Your Own Free Multipurpose Web Page With Google Sites - 0 views

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  • Keith Hamon on 09 Aug 10
     
    A simple introduction to creating web sites using Google Sites
Keith Hamon

David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization | Video on TED.com - 1 views

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  • David McCandless turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending, media buzz, Facebook status updates) into beautiful, simple diagrams that tease out unseen patterns and connections. Good design, he suggests, is the best way to navigate information glut -- and it may just change the way we see the world.
  • Keith Hamon on 26 Aug 10
     
    David McCandless turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending, media buzz, Facebook status updates) into beautiful, simple diagrams that tease out unseen patterns and connections. Good design, he suggests, is the best way to navigate information glut -- and it may just change the way we see the world.
Keith Hamon

Reflections on open courses « Connectivism - 0 views

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  • MOOCs reduce barriers to information access and to the dialogue that permits individuals (and society) to grow knowledge.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 26 Aug 10
       
      We have yet to truly explore this reduction of barriers to information access, but it is emerging before our eyes. When lectures by Nobel-prize physicists and writers are online for free, then what do we local physics and English teachers have to offer our classrooms? We need to think through that.
  • Knowledge is a mashup. Many people contribute. Many different forums are used. Multiple media permit varied and nuanced expressions of knowledge. And, because the information base (which is required for knowledge formation) changes so rapidly, being properly connected to the right people and information is vitally important.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 26 Aug 10
       
      This captures nicely the shift from learning as a solitary activity within the individual mind to learning as a networked, interconnected activity within a personal learning network.
  • MOOCs share the process of knowledge work – facilitators model and display sensemaking and wayfinding in their discipline. They respond to critics, to challenges from participants in the course. Instead of sharing only their knowledge (as is done in a university course) they share their sensemaking habits and their thinking processes with participants. Epistemology is augmented with ontology.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 26 Aug 10
       
      Online, our knowledge-making becomes explicit, and we shift from traditional teaching methods back to older apprenticeship methods. We let our students see us struggle to create new knowledge out of data and experience.
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    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 26 Aug 10
       
      This suggests some of the new kinds of value that teachers can bring to their local classes.
  • Keith Hamon on 26 Aug 10
     
    Siemens' thoughts about the impact of open courses on learning and the Academy.
Keith Hamon

Looking Ahead at Social Learning: 10 Predictions - 2010 - ASTD - 1 views

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  • Keith Hamon on 03 Aug 10
     
    Throughout the last three years, we have researched what the future holds for fields as diverse as human longevity and the future of the web. That research helped us come up with 10 predictions for the future of social learning. If you are just now dipping your toes into the social learning pool, we hope the following predictions will give you some ideas about where the future is headed so that you can prepare accordingly.
Keith Hamon

Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org: 5 Steps to Digitizing the Writing Workshop #edchat #writing - 3 views

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  • Expecting students to write in our classrooms for hit-or-miss praise is criminal. Their nimble fingers can text an entire piece of writing via their mobile device to a relevant audience online at the same time they publish to a worldwide network. For them, the pay is in the joy of publication, in the act of making their work known, and of partaking of the work of others.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 03 Aug 10
       
      This is a big part of the intrinsic, and fun, motivation for writing online.
  • Take advantage of over 20 digital tools for students (Sidebar #2 - Digital Tools for Students).
  • You can easily transition from notes and highlights kept in Diigo.com social bookmarking tool to a written piece that appropriately cites content. Check Sidebar #3 for Electronic Citation Resources.
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  • reflect on the teacher's role in the writing workshop, and the technology available to organize the writing workshop.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 03 Aug 10
       
      One of our tasks in QEP is to devise tools and strategies to make the instructor's job easier, not more difficult. Technology can help, and we want to explore how.
  • Create a Self-Editing checklist that is actually a GoogleForm or the Questionnaire Module in Moodle so you can quickly see class progress in graphs. Students complete this information via a web-based form that allows you to quantitatively track progress in class. Create a bank of online mini-lessons that students can watch and listen to again and again in an archive. Build that in your GoogleSites Wiki or Moodle. Facilitate sharing using recording tools in a discussion forum or Sites wiki. When doing the Group Share during a Writing Workshop, you can either play the students' presentation of the audio (which they recorded when they were ready) or record the feedback students get so that it can be added to the written piece/recording shared. That way, students can come back and reflect on the advice provided by their peers.
  • Using a Moodle or wiki, you can create a reference point that can house your mini-lesson content, including audio and/or video recordings.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 03 Aug 10
       
      Perhaps we could build a mini-lesson space on the Writing Labs wiki?
  • VoiceThread.com - Enables teachers to create an enhanced podcast about the MiniLesson content, but also allow students to contribute audio, text, or video content as comments. This enables many to many interactions.
  • GoogleDocs Presentation Tool - Enables teachers to create a slideshow that students can participate in chat, as well as contribute slides to.
  • As wonderful as a writing workshop teacher may be, s/he cannot offer the feedback that ALL students may need. However, online discussion forums through Moodle, attached to wikis, or with blog postings and comments CAN facilitate student to student interaction independent of the teacher. While many fear these kinds of interactions, in online learning, these interactions make or break an online course...or a face to face one.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 03 Aug 10
       
      Fostering this kind of online conversation is key to QEP. It's what we are about, but we recognize that most of our students are unaccustomed to conversing about academic issues among themselves. We want to teach them to talk college.
  • Collaborative word processors can also serve as a way for students in groups to interact with ONE text online.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 03 Aug 10
       
      This is an excellent entry point into many different kinds of exercises: group editing, group writing, group brainstorming, group illumination (adding images and video). I like this.
  • Shelly Blake-Pollock, the teacher and author of the TeachPaperless blog (http://teachpaperless.blogspot.com), encourages his students to publish online. Beyond that step, though, he offers feedback on their writing online as well via screencasts, or video recording of his computer screen. Screencasts, or "JingCrits," that he creates are short, less than 5-minute video clips where he highlights student work on screen and offers feedback (View an example - http://bit.ly/bsgVQQ).
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 03 Aug 10
       
      This could be a wonderful strategy for moving our QEP Writing Labs into the online world, enabling writing specialists to engage student writing, and offer useful feedback, online.
  • Keith Hamon on 03 Aug 10
     
    This article is about 5 steps you can take, as a writing teacher, to digitize your writing workshop. There are many more, though, so "stay tuned" for future articles!
Keith Hamon

Teach Science and Math - 2 views

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  • Keith Hamon on 05 Aug 10
     
    Stimulating critical thinking using technology has the potential to create more in depth understanding of science and math content by students when engaged in learning activities which integrate in-class and on-line technology resources.
Keith Hamon

A Twitteraholic's Guide to tweets, hashtags, and all things Twitter | The Edublogger - 0 views

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  • Keith Hamon on 05 Aug 10
     
    Here's advice on using Twitter written with assistance from my twitter network and readers comments on this post.
Keith Hamon

Community Building- Powerful Learning Indeed « 21st Century Collaborative - 0 views

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  • Keith Hamon on 13 Sep 10
     
    You need a plan. Just because you build doesn't mean in online communities they will come. Rather you need to understand who your audience is and why you are together. You also need to have a common language about what a community is and what it isn't.
Keith Hamon

Use Diigo To Help Write Your Next College Essay or Term Paper - 0 views

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  • since most research papers are based on quotes used from various sources, Diigo provides a way to not only bookmark your sources, but also to manage and access your quotes, notes, and analysis.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 24 Jan 11
       
      This post assumes that most college research papers are based on secondary sources easily found on the Internet.
  • The best way to do research is know what your thesis is for a given topic.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 24 Jan 11
       
      I'm not sure I agree. Many students start with a subject, such as gun control, but don't develop a thesis until after they have done some reading and investigation.
  • Having a thesis in mind can help you narrow research, even if you change your thesis during the process.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 24 Jan 11
       
      I do believe that students should be taught to do research after they know what they are looking for. 
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  • create a list for your topic. This list will be used to manage all your bookmarks and highlights.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 24 Jan 11
       
      Any item can be added to many lists, or more precisely, can be tagged with many items.
  • install the Diigo bookmarklet, or diigolet, in your favorite web browser
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 24 Jan 11
       
      This is an essential tool for using Diigo. You can bookmark without the Diigo tool, but it is much more cumbersome to do so.
  • You might consider color coding your highlights, e.g., yellow for quotes that support your thesis, and green for quotes that are against your thesis.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 24 Jan 11
       
      Visual cues work for some people.
  • If you’re working on a group research project, Diigo can be used for the same purpose. Simply create a group for which everyone can bookmark sources to.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 24 Jan 11
       
      Diigo is a great tool for collaborative writing.
  • Keith Hamon on 02 Sep 10
     
    Diigo can be a very useful tool for helping you to write a college essay or research paper.
Keith Hamon

Teaching Carnival 4.1 - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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  • Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
     
    In that spirit of collaboration, the Teaching Carnival is back. … Each month, a new writer will collect and sort teaching-related links and will post them here. (If you are interested in writing one of these posts or contributing links to the roundup, see the info at the bottom of this page.) This is a great source for connecting to college profs who are writing about teaching in college.
Keith Hamon

Harvard Study Finds Teens Online Lack Ethics - 0 views

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  • Keith Hamon on 22 Sep 10
     
    the team has found that most young people are devoid of ethical thinking or consideration for others when using the web.
Keith Hamon

Langwitches Blog » Taking Student Blogging to the Next Level? - 0 views

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  • Keith Hamon on 22 Sep 10
     
    Many benefits of blogging seem to become apparent over time. That has happened in my own learning journey as a blogger as well.  It is the reflective nature and the timeline of a blog, as well as the growing connections with readers that will reveal growth as a writer, the benefits of being a member of a network and a contributor to a global community.
Keith Hamon

Education Week: Schools Blend Virtual and Face-to-Face Teaching - 0 views

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  • Keith Hamon on 22 Sep 10
     
    Blended, or hybrid, learning has caught the eye of many looking into the potential of online learning, especially after the release of a meta-analysis and review of online-learning research by the U.S. Department of Education in May 2009. The authors found that "instruction combining online and face-to-face elements had a larger advantage" than either purely online or entirely face-to-face instruction.
Keith Hamon

Alternative approaches to assessing student engagement rates. Chapman, Elaine - 0 views

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  • Keith Hamon on 17 Sep 10
     
    Overview of definitions of student engagement & methods of assessing engagement: self-report measures, checklists & rating scales, direct observations, work sample analyses, & focused case studies.
Keith Hamon

NCTE Inbox Blog: Building Community in 15 Minutes a Day - 0 views

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  • you can easily adapt the project for any students and class.
  • Be sure that the writing prompt you choose require a personal response.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
       
      QEP seeks to connect new knowledge to what the student already knows, which is key to connective knowledge.
  • Remember that writers have more authority when they can choose a topic that they are comfortable with.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
       
      Building a sense of authority is key to good writing. Real writers always try to write from a position of relative authority. If they can't, then they ask good questions or keep quiet.
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  • Invite students to do whatever kind of writing they want to. The important thing is to write. Exactly how they write is less important.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
       
      In QEP, we seek first to encourage student writing, build participation, regardless of the kind or quality of the writing. Those issues emerge ONLY after people are writing in a group.
  • Once students do their writing, it's time to use their texts to build community.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
       
      This is a key: we must find ways to pull student ideas into the classroom. This invests the students in their own learning and connects them to the class, the content, and to each other.
  • Using Anderson's project as a model, you can jump start community building in the classroom this fall. The first days of school can be very scary. As teachers, we need to make students feel comfortable with each other as quickly as possible. Writing is the answer. Welcome students as writers, give them advice and encouragement, and watch discussions about writing blossom as students build connections and encourage one another to write. And you can do it all in about 15 minutes a day!
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
       
      This is why our QEP focuses so much on writing in social networks.
  • Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
     
    Laurie Halse Anderson… invites readers to spend 15 minutes writing every day during the month. She provides writing prompts, advice, and encouragement. All readers have to do is set aside 15 uninterrupted minutes and write.
Keith Hamon

tengrrl v2.0 | p e d a b l o g i c a l - 0 views

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  • Begin by establishing reasons for students to connect.
  • In the writing classroom, personal stories can be the best way to build quick connections
  • ask students to talk about their work as writers—their best work, their pet peeves, and their biggest challenges.
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  • Tend the fledgling connections writers make with activities that talk explicitly about community.
  • Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
     
    How do you take a group of individual, unrelated people and connect them in a supportive community quickly? … Here are some answers.
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