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Keith Hamon

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

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Sue Waters Twitter elearning social networking PLN writing connectivism Web 2.0

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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

Why Online Education Needs to Get Social - 0 views

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Marco Masoni elearning socialnetworking Education 2.0 Web 2.0

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  • Keith Hamon on 13 Sep 10
     
    Education is the second largest industry in America behind health care, and it too is experiencing a similar shift as it struggles to adapt traditional design and delivery models to the demands of modern audiences who are accustomed to digital interactivity. The challenge to transition successfully is especially pressing for online higher education. The Sloan Consortium reports that two-thirds of post-secondary educational institutions are seeing an increase in online courses and programs, so it's a market that education providers simply cannot afford to ignore.
Keith Hamon

10 Tips for Successful Online Research in Adult Education - 0 views

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David R. Wetzel research elearning writing

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  • Keith Hamon on 13 Sep 10
     
    The online world is vast, often making such research a time consuming drain on valuable study time. So what do you do? The following top 10 tips for successful online research below will help make time dedicated for research more efficient.
Thomas Clancy

U.S. Plans Major Changes in How Students Are Tested - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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elearning critical thinking

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  • Thomas Clancy on 13 Sep 10
     
    New testing rationale -- in line with QEP.
Keith Hamon

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

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Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach elearning social networking PLN connectivism Web 2.0 Education 2.0

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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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diigo research writing bookmarking elearning Web 2.0 PLN

shared by Keith Hamon on 02 Sep 10 - Cached
  • 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

Harvard Study Finds Teens Online Lack Ethics - 0 views

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Carrie James ethics education elearning social networking PLN Education 2.0 Web 2.0 critical thinking

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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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blogging writing Silvia Tolisano elearning social networking PLN Education 2.0 Web 2.0 critical thinking

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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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Katie Ash education hybrid elearning social networking PLN Education 2.0 Web 2.0

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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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Elaine Chapman engagement writing elearning social networking PLN Web 2.0 Education 2.0 connectivism

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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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Traci Gardner elearning social networking PLN writing connectivism

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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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Traci Gardner elearning social networking writing PLN connectivism rhizome education constructivism

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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.
Keith Hamon

What's the Trick to Building Community in the Classroom? | p e d a b l o g i c a l - 0 views

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Traci Gardner elearning social networking writing PLN rhizome connectivism Web 2.0 Education 2.0

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  • the key to a successful community is “connecting a group of people online and making them feel a part of something special.” Students aren’t going to launch into discussion just because we throw them together. We have to give them reasons to connect.
  • Give students time to bond and make connections.
  • the class needs to do things together.
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  • community challenges can also be effective.
  • Consider community participation projects as well.
  • do all you can to encourage authentic conversation. Allow students to discuss topics freely and without fear of criticism.
  • Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
     
    Online or off, getting students to talk to each other is a tricky task. … The FeverBee Primer About Successful Online Communities can help. While meant more for corporate and public community building, the lessons apply to the classroom just as well.
Keith Hamon

Usual Visual Thinking in the Classroom - Derek Bruff - 0 views

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Derek Bruff visual data visualization elearning writing Education 2.0 Web 2.0

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  • Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
     
    I recently put together a workshop on using visual thinking techniques in the classroom for a group of graduate students at my teaching center.
Keith Hamon

The Wild World of Massively Open Online Courses « Unlimited Magazine - 1 views

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Emily Senger elearning social networking PLN Education 2.0 Web 2.0 connectivism rhizome

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  • “There’s this notion that technology is networked and social. It does alter the power relationship between the educator and the learner, a learner has more autonomy, they have more control. The expectation that you wait on the teacher to create everything for you and to tell you what to do is false.”
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 02 Sep 10
       
      This is perhaps the practical heart of Connectivism: that the world is networked and that the learner is at the center of their own personal learning network.
  • “At the beginning, we had quite a number of students feeling quite overwhelmed because you would get 200 or 300 posts going into a discussion forum per day and that’s just about impossible to follow,” Siemens says.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 02 Sep 10
       
      PLNs must have filters and aggregators to help us manage the massive flow of information in MOOCs.
  • Even if students in massively open online courses master the technology and overcome their virtual stage fright, a third problem remains: how to recognize the value of a learning experience that isn’t for credit.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 02 Sep 10
       
      Validation remains a very sticky issue for online learning and for PLNs. However, I'm not sure the resolution will be to find a method for online validation, redefinition of validation, or a mixture of both.
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  • It’s a question that proponents of online education continue to grapple with. Even if a student in an open course gains from their experience, there is no guarantee that the boss, or a potential employer, will recognize their learning without a certificate or other official, institution-approved record to prove it.
  • Keith Hamon on 02 Sep 10
     
    With advancing online tools innovative educators are examining new ways to break out of this one-to-many model of education, through a concept called massively open online courses. The idea is to use open-source learning tools to make courses transparent and open to all, harnessing the knowledge of anyone who is interested in a topic.
Keith Hamon

Using Google Docs for Peer Editing « Epic Epoch - 0 views

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David Freeburg writing elearning social networking PLN Education 2.0 Web 2.0 critical thinking

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  • Keith Hamon on 21 Sep 10
     
    Over time, I'd like my students to become purveyors of their own work more and more.  The idea (and I'm sure it's not mine) is for the students to be able to critically analyze what each other written work to improve their own writing.
Keith Hamon

Building an Online Presence More Important Than Ever - 0 views

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Colleen Brondou social networking writing PLN Education 2.0 Web 2.0 critical thinking connectivism elearning

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  • For older students, Silvia Tolisano, a technology and 21st-century learning specialist, offers a comprehensive blog post on helping students take their blog skills to the next level. She focuses on the ability of blogs to help students become better writers, and be part of a network and contribute to a larger community.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 21 Sep 10
       
      This is close to the heart of what we are doing in ASU's QEP.
  • Keith Hamon on 21 Sep 10
     
    Educators have long cautioned students about posting damaging information online, but now it's also becoming important to build a positive digital footprint. When should students start building their online persona? The earlier, the better.
Keith Hamon

YouTube - Scott Moore : Using Technology and Collaboration to Engage Students (Part 1) - 1 views

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Scott Moore PLN collaboration writing critical thinking elearning Web 2.0

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  • Keith Hamon on 01 Oct 10
     
    Nice video that explores many of the techniques we use in QEP to promote student connectivity, PLNs, and collaboration.
Keith Hamon

The 3 Things Members Want From Your Online Community - FeverBee - The Online Community ... - 0 views

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Richard Millington social networking elearning writing PLN Education 2.0 Web 2.0 connectivism

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  • Keith Hamon on 13 Sep 10
     
    Members want 3 things from any online community. These three things shape your actions in the following ways:
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