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Stephanie Cooper

Effective Assignments Using Library and Internet Resources-The Library-University of Ca... - 1 views

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  • A well-designed assignment can teach students valuable research skills and improve the quality of their papers. Unfortunately, assignments also have the potential to confuse and frustrate students, leading to a poorly-written product.
Keith Hamon

Google Forms: how to create a quiz or a test that automatically grades itself in Google... - 0 views

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Google Forms docs

shared by Keith Hamon on 12 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Keith Hamon on 12 Jun 10
     
    Using forms in Google docs lets anyone create forms quickly and share those forms via email, embed them into a webpage or blog. If you are a teacher, you can create formulas that allow you to have these forms graded in minutes.
Keith Hamon

Marc My Words: Thinking About Mobile Learning in the Age of iPad by Marc J. Rosenberg :... - 2 views

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Marc J. Rosenberg elearning PLN Education 2.0 Web 2.0 connectivism

shared by Keith Hamon on 26 Jun 10 - Cached
  • We focused on providing just-in-time resources, in the context of work situations not easily predicted, rather than longer duration, more tightly targeted and structured instructional programs.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 26 Jun 10
       
      We see again the shift from just-in-case learning to just-in-time. Anybody want to do a cartoon strip with me, starring Justin Case and Justin Thyme?
  • the screen is bigger, which makes a huge difference in how we can display informational and instructional content.
  • the most important game-changer is that the iPad, and other devices to follow, are designed to be “always on,” or “always connected;” the intent being that you always have access to the Internet (of course this may not be practically true yet, but it certainly is the goal).
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  • the use of organization-based social networking as a mobile learning strategy.
  • the idea of downloading starts to seem antiquated.
  • Clearly, the platforms and devices becoming available are more flexible, more powerful, more portable, and more user-friendly. 24x7 access to content makes mLearning more convenient and valuable. New communication channels open up new opportunities to connect with coworkers and experts, anytime and anywhere. And the use of cloud computing makes virtually limitless amounts of content instantly available to virtually limitless numbers of users.
  • Keith Hamon on 26 Jun 10
     
    Clearly, the platforms and devices becoming available are more flexible, more powerful, more portable, and more user-friendly. 24x7 access to content makes mLearning more convenient and valuable. New communication channels open up new opportunities to connect with coworkers and experts, anytime and anywhere. And the use of cloud computing makes virtually limitless amounts of content instantly available to virtually limitless numbers of users.
Keith Hamon

Personal Learning Network - 2 views

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Daniel Tobin PLN learning education social networking connectivism Education 2.0 rhizome

shared by Keith Hamon on 23 Jul 10 - Cached
  • An important part of learning is to build your own personal learning network -- a group of people who can guide your learning, point you to learning opportunities, answer your questions, and give you the benefit of their own knowledge and experience.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 23 Jul 10
       
      Okay, so PLNs as an educational concept have been around for a while, at least since 1998. And not just in education, but in the "real world." The significant change today is that we cannot speak of PLNs without talking about online networks.
  • we are all inundated with data (Stage 1) -- all those manuals, brochures, memos, letters, reports, and other printed material that cross our field of vision every day, not to mention all that we receive electronically
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 23 Jul 10
       
      Data overload has simply been complicated and exacerbated by the Internet. We have WAY more data than we can possibly deal with. We have moved from an age of information scarcity to information glut.
  • when you take data and give it relevance and purpose, you create information. Information (Stage 2) is the minimum we should be seeking for all of our learning activities.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 23 Jul 10
       
      This is a key component of QEP: to find ways to make the class data relevant and purposeful information-purposeful beyond simply making a good grade. We suspect that most students never move beyond memorizing the class data so that they can repeat it on the test and then forget it. They never turn the data into useful and purposeful information, much less turn the data into knowledge or wisdom.
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  • Even when we have information, we must use that information by applying it to our work before we can say we "know it." Until we use it, it remains information. Knowledge (Stage 3) comes from applying information to our work. This is the stage at which most company training programs fail -- too often the content of company training programs never gets applied to the employee's work. To me, this means that the investment in that training is totally wasted.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 23 Jul 10
       
      Applying information to our work is the tricky part for students: as most of them do not yet sense that they have any real work. QEP is looking for ways to turn their data processing into knowledge management.
  • Wisdom (Stage 4), that most precious possession, comes from adding intuition and experience to knowledge.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 23 Jul 10
       
      I think that many believe wisdom is beyond the reach of most classrooms, but I'm not willing to give up on it. However, it means that we must provide real, relevant experiences in class through which the student can develop wisdom.
  • This is why having a personal learning network is so important -- to provide us not only with pointers to sources of information, but to answer questions, to coach us, to reinforce our learning when we try to apply it to our work.
  • First, we must sort through all of the available data to find only that information that is relevant to our learning needs and for which we have a purpose.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 23 Jul 10
       
      Too often missing from our classes, which too seldom address a common question among students: how will I use this in the future?
  • Once we have gathered and learned the needed information, we need to apply it to our work in order to transform it into our personal knowledge.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 23 Jul 10
       
      Applying new data to our own work to transform it into personal knowledge. This is as fine a statement of the aims of QEP as I can think of: we use online writing to help students create PLNs as engines for churning the data they are exposed to in their classes into personal knowledge.
  • Who should be in your personal learning network? The members of your network do not need to be people with whom you work directly. In fact, you do not even need to know the people personally. The members of your network should be people, both inside and outside of your work group and your company, who have the knowledge that you are trying to master and who are willing to share their knowledge and experience with you.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 23 Jul 10
       
      A student's PLN should, of course, include fellow class students and the teacher, but also students, teachers, experts, friends, and others outside the class. We do that online.
  • To establish a learning network, you can ask other people in your group, or with whom you have gone through a training program, to participate in periodic discussions as you all try to implement a new way of working, to support each other and share experiences with each other. Most people are happy to help -- people generally like to talk about their own work and are honored to be asked to share their knowledge and wisdom.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 23 Jul 10
       
      This is a key to social networks: most people LIKE getting together, talking about common interests, and sharing what they know. We need to connect our students to such networks-connectivity, connectivism.
  • the value of knowledge increases when you share it with others.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 23 Jul 10
       
      We need to explore when knowledge is best considered a cooperative, connect-and-collaborate property and when it is best considered a competitive, command-and-control property. When should knowledge be part of the Commons and when should it be proprietary? What about on a test? What about in an essay or research document?
  • Building a personal learning network is requires that you not only seek to learn from others, but also that you also help others in the network learn.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 23 Jul 10
       
      The principle of reciprocity is a key element in building PLNs, and one that most students never learn in grade school, where they are kept in their seats, eyes on their own work, hands to themselves, and forbidden to talk to their colleagues. Who could possibly run a real organization with those rules? It's a model of behavior for an assembly line worker, but not a knowledge worker. Why do our schools have this mismatch?
  • A personal learning network can be your most powerful learning tool no matter what the subject.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 23 Jul 10
       
      This one sentence should be in all correspondence, advertisements, and discussions about QEP.
  • Keith Hamon on 23 Jul 10
     
    An important part of learning is to build your own personal learning network -- a group of people who can guide your learning, point you to learning opportunities, answer your questions, and give you the benefit of their own knowledge and experience.
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

The eXtended Web and the Personal Learning Environment « Plearn Blog - 0 views

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Rita Kop Web 3.0 PLN

shared by Keith Hamon on 28 Sep 10 - Cached
  • 1. A personal profiler that would collect and store personal information. 2. An information and resource aggregator to collect information and resources. 3. Editors and publishers enabling people to produce and publish artifacts to aid the learning and interest of others. 4. Helper applications that would provide the pedagogical backbone of the PLE and make connections with other internet services to help the learner make sense of information, applications and resources. 5. Services of the learners choice. 6. Recommenders of information and resources.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 28 Sep 10
       
      These may be the key technological features of the next generation PLN.
  • Keith Hamon on 28 Sep 10
     
    Thoughts about how Web 3.0, the eXtended Web, might affect PLNs.
Stephanie Cooper

CRASH COURSE IN COPYRIGHT - 0 views

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  • Crash Course Tutorial The Crash Course Tutorial is available for faculty to use to learn Copyright basics, especially in the distance learning context.
Keith Hamon

Teaching Internet Research Skills: Introduction - 1 views

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shared by Keith Hamon on 27 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • This workshop examines what constitutes searching for information and what comprises research.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 27 Jan 11
       
      This is a very good point.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 27 Jan 11
       
      This is my comment about this point.
Stephanie Cooper

Six Trends That Will Change Workplace Learning Forever - 2010 - ASTD - 1 views

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  • “Historically, the learning community has stayed away from informal learning and social learning, and that is where most of the learning is taking place,” ASTD CEO Tony Bingham said during an interview promoting his new book, The New Social Learning, with co-author Marcia Conner. “We now have the tools, and the catalysts, to engage [employees] with that kind of learning. I think that is going to help the learning community take it to the next level.”  
  • An ASTD and Institute for Corporate Productivity study made a strong business case for using social media to enhance productivity. Millennials found social media tools more helpful in terms of learning and getting work done than Generation X workers or Baby Boomers. More organizations dabbled in social media during 2010, using shared workspaces, social networks, and wikis to deliver learning and development.   “The next generation of workers coming into organizations will demand the ability to work in ways they’ve already found to enable success,” wrote Jeanne Meister and Karie Willyerd in a July 2010 T+D article. “If the learning function does not step up to the task, some other department in the organization will, and the learning function will become irrelevant.”
  • As Daniel Pink wrote in The New Social Learning foreword, social learning will not replace training and employee development, “but it can accomplish what traditional approaches often cannot … [It] can supplement instruction with collaboration and co-creation, and in doing so, blur the boundary between the instructor and the instructed. … It can bring far-flung employees together into new communities in which they can not only learn from one another, but also fashion new offerings for customers. In short, social media can change the way your company works.”  
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  • The greatest technology growth of 2010 came with mobile devices, and thus, one of the biggest changes in workplace learning came via smartphones. Mobile phones have become an extension of the workplace and have made the world of work a 24/7 reality, but how have they changed learning?  
  • An IBM study, published in the January 2010 issue of T+D, highlighted two main purposes for mobile phone use: in-field performance support and access to current, just-in-time information that is relevant to a specific project or task. But an even more important reason to venture into the world of mobile learning is that newer workers in the workforce, the Millennials, are demanding it.  
  • The need to make social media and mobile learning a part of the workplace to attract, engage, and retain the younger generations is forcing learning professionals to explore new and innovative ways to deliver learning on these inexpensive devices, anytime and anywhere.  
    • Stephanie Cooper
      Stephanie Cooper on 25 Apr 11
       
      This also applies to professors.  Since mobile learning is becoming a reality in the workplace, students need to be prepared for it.  
  • Morgan Stanley estimates that by 2015, more users will connect to the Internet via mobile devices than by desktop PC. “Our world,” Jeanne Meister and Karie Willyerd wrote in a July T+D article, “will turn into three-minute learning vignettes.” GPS sensitivity, according to Meister and Willyerd, will help new hires find checkpoints so they can learn the company and its history, and could alert us when we are near an expert in a topic of our choice. “Perhaps the future role of learning is to find, organize, and enable the experts,” Meister and Willyerd wrote.   Learning is trending toward the user and the moment of need. Workplace learning and performance professionals need to redefine the role that mobile learning will play in their learning initiatives because if they don’t, they risk being left behind in this new workplace paradigm.  
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