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Keith Hamon

Embedding Stuff in #Moodle or Anywhere - 1 views

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Miguel Guhlin embedding moodle elearning Web 2.0 Education 2.0 teachers

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  • Keith Hamon on 26 Jun 10
     
    Here are 48+ neat providers of content that you can embed--or place--on a web page. This is content that can easily be "embedded" in blogs, wikis, and/or Moodle. Some of it you can make yourself, while others comes from other sources.
Keith Hamon

I AM A LIAR!: Recap - 1 views

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elearning PLN connectivism blogging Web 2.0 Education 2.0 writing

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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

Communities of practice - 0 views

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Etienne Wenger communities of practice education

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  • Keith Hamon on 22 Jun 10
     
    Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.
Keith Hamon

Week3_Networks - 1 views

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George Siemens connectivism rhizome networks

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  • Keith Hamon on 22 Jun 10
     
    Siemens provides an overview of networks and outlines the implications for Connectivism.
Keith Hamon

10 Google Forms for the Classroom | edte.ch - 1 views

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Tom Barrett google googledocs GoogleForms googleapps Education 2.0 Web 2.0

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  • Keith Hamon on 22 Jun 10
     
    I thought I would share 10 ideas for using Forms in the classroom.
Keith Hamon

Connectivism & Connective Knowledge » Narratives of coherence - 1 views

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George Siemens connectivism narrative PLN elearning

shared by Keith Hamon on 21 Jun 10 - Cached
  • narrative of coherence
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 21 Jun 10
       
      I really like this phrase - narrative of coherence. I think it captures nicely one of the main techniques of all successful learners: they are able to build a narrative of coherence that connects new knowledge to their existing knowledge base and makes it all coherent.
  • Keith Hamon on 21 Jun 10
     
    In a traditional course, the educator hacks the trails to complex information landscapes. The educator's bias influences what is included and excluded. What we're talking about here is the ability for each learner to create their own narrative of coherence.
Keith Hamon

eLearn: Feature Article - E-learning 2.0 - 1 views

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Stephen Downes elearning connectivism PLN

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  • Sharing content is not considered unethical; indeed, the hoarding of content is viewed as antisocial [9]. And open content is viewed not merely as nice to have but essential for the creation of the sort of learning network described by Siemens [10].
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 21 Jun 10
       
      Open content is one reason we prefer Google tools over Blackboard or Moodle, both of which are closed systems that restrict access to content.
  • In a nutshell, what was happening was that the Web was shifting from being a medium, in which information was transmitted and consumed, into being a platform, in which content was created, shared, remixed, repurposed, and passed along. And what people were doing with the Web was not merely reading books, listening to the radio or watching TV, but having a conversation, with a vocabulary consisting not just of words but of images, video, multimedia and whatever they could get their hands on. And this became, and looked like, and behaved like, a network.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 21 Jun 10
       
      QEP wants to join this network, adding its smaller class networks to the larger network, thereby enriching both.
  • Blogging is very different from traditionally assigned learning content. It is much less formal. It is written from a personal point of view, in a personal voice. Students' blog posts are often about something from their own range of interests, rather than on a course topic or assigned project. More importantly, what happens when students blog, and read reach others' blogs, is that a network of interactions forms-much like a social network, and much like Wenger's community of practice.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 21 Jun 10
       
      Student blogging is still one of the more significant strategies for encouraging students to use writing as a tool for learning and communicating.
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  • What happens when online learning ceases to be like a medium, and becomes more like a platform? What happens when online learning software ceases to be a type of content-consumption tool, where learning is "delivered," and becomes more like a content-authoring tool, where learning is created? The model of e-learning as being a type of content, produced by publishers, organized and structured into courses, and consumed by students, is turned on its head. Insofar as there is content, it is used rather than read— and is, in any case, more likely to be produced by students than courseware authors. And insofar as there is structure, it is more likely to resemble a language or a conversation rather than a book or a manual.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 21 Jun 10
       
      This shift from medium to platform is key to understanding writing in Web 2.0 as opposed to writing in print for it radically shifts the relationships between writer and subject and writer and reader.
  • learning comes not from the design of learning content but in how it is used
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 21 Jun 10
       
      This is a radical shift away from the activity of the teacher to the activity of the students.
  • Keith Hamon on 21 Jun 10
     
    E-learning has been around for ten years or so. During that time, it has emerged from being a radical idea-the effectiveness of which was yet to be proven-to something that is widely regarded as mainstream. And now, e-learning is evolving with the World Wide Web as a whole and it's changing to a degree significant enough to warrant a new name: E-learning 2.0.
Keith Hamon

Critical Thinking: What Is It, Anyway? - 1 views

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critical thinking writing

shared by Keith Hamon on 17 Jun 10 - Cached
  • The ability to think critically is arguably the most important skill for the 21st century person.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 17 Jun 10
       
      Well, critical thinking is one of five writing literacies taught in QEP classes. Is it the most important?
  • Instead of using the Five W’s for developing content (they’re the basics for writing a successful news piece), use the Five W’s to analyze any post/piece of writing.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 17 Jun 10
       
      This is a nice technique to add to the QEP toolbox, and has a dual use for both writing and reading. Keep in mind that QEP should also address reading, as Tom points out to us.
  • Keith Hamon on 17 Jun 10
     
    critical thinking demands objective examination of a topic and then a conscious response to that examination.
Keith Hamon

Half an Hour: Connectivism and Transculturality - 1 views

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network connectivism Stephen Downes social networking elearning PLN Education 2.0 rhizome

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  • you need a mixture of materials, you need a collection of different perspectives, different points of view, in order to come to any new understanding.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 15 Jun 10
       
      Do teachers approach any class with the ambitions of gaining new understanding? Why not? What would change about a class if they did?
  • Communities have to be open, they have to have some source of new material coming in, whether its raw material, resources, ideas, etc., and then they have to have some place where they can send their creative product, the things that they make, the ideas that they have.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 15 Jun 10
       
      How in QEP do we overcome the static curriculum closed to any new information?
  • A third criterion that distinguishes a community defines as a network from a community defined as a group is autonomy. And what that means is that each of the members of that community are working toward their own sense of values, their own sense of purpose, their own goals or endeavours.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 15 Jun 10
       
      College classes too seldom incorporate the value of the student into the mix, ignoring the purposes, goals, and experiences of the student and delivering a plain vanilla product, one-size-fits-all.
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  • When I say 'interactivity' I say the knowledge in the community is created by the interaction of the members of the community rather than created in one person and then spread through the community.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 15 Jun 10
       
      This is a key to connectivism: that learning emerges, either in our minds or in our communities, from the patterns and interactions of individual people or neurons.
  • Keith Hamon on 15 Jun 10
     
    Our knowledge, our intelligence, must be based on something emergent from the connective activity of many individual neurons, can't be based on the content of a neuron, has to be based on the pattern of connectivity of these neurons. We replicate that in connectivist teaching.
Keith Hamon

The Logical Fallacies: Welcome - 1 views

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Stephen Downes logical fallacies writing education

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  • Keith Hamon on 15 Jun 10
     
    The point of an argument is to give reasons in support of some conclusion. An argument commits a fallacy when the reasons offered do not support the conclusion. These pages describe the known logical fallacies.
Keith Hamon

5 Things Old Media Still Doesn't Get About The Web | The Best Article Every day - 2 views

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media social networking Web 2.0

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  • Keith Hamon on 15 Jun 10
     
    Established old media entities are struggling to understand the web. Time and time again, it feels as if old media companies, rather than embracing the massive potential of the web, seem to shoot themselves in the foot. So consider this a public service. For all those people out there working in established media, here are five things you still don't seem to get about the web:
Keith Hamon

How To Permanently Delete Your Account on Popular Websites | The Best Article Every day - 0 views

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social networking teachers connectivism

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  • Keith Hamon on 15 Jun 10
     
    What we often don't realize when signing up for all these accounts, though, is how difficult it can be to permanently delete our accounts when we've had enough. Some require complicated, multi-step processes that can stretch over the course of days (or weeks).
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

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  • 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

Open for Learning: The CMS and the Open Learning Network | in education - 1 views

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Jon Mott David Wiley CMS PLN open education

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  • Keith Hamon on 10 Jun 10
     
    The course management system (CMS) reinforces the status quo and hinders substantial teaching and learning innovation in higher education. It does so by imposing artificial time limits on learner access to course content and other learners, privileging the role of the instructor at the expense of the learner, and limiting the power of the network effect in the learning process. The open learning network (OLN)-a hybrid of 1 the CMS and the personal learning environment (PLE)-is proposed as an alternative learning technology environment with the potential to leverage the affordances of the Web to dramatically improve learning.
Keith Hamon

Tom March :: Thesis Builder - The Original Persuasive Essay Maker - 1 views

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writing edTech

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  • Keith Hamon on 10 Jun 10
     
    ElectraGuide is a tool that wants to help high school students: find a topic, create a good thesis statement, and generate an outline.
Keith Hamon

EduDemic » The Ultimate Teacher's Guide To Social Media - 1 views

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Michael Zimmer social networking PLN

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  • Keith Hamon on 10 Jun 10
     
    Yet another guide to social networking tools for use in education.
Keith Hamon

connectivistlearning [licensed for non-commercial use only] / Home - 1 views

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Web 2.0 connectivism PLN

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  • Keith Hamon on 06 Jun 10
     
    Web 2.0 & Connectivist Learning will focus on utilizing new technologies to connect, collaborate, create, and share.  The primary focus will be on teacher professional learning and building a Personal Learning Network.  We will explore in depth how web 2.0 tools like blogs, wikis, podcasts, vodcasts, social bookmarking, social networking, microblogging, and others can be utilized both for personal professional growth and how these tools might be used in the classroom.
Keith Hamon

How To Use Google Wave for Live Blogging - 1 views

www.readwriteweb.com/...gle_wave_for_live_blogging.php

Frederic Lardinois Google Wave social networking social learning PLN

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  • Keith Hamon on 06 Jun 10
     
    The title says it all
Keith Hamon

Guidelines for Engaging in Generative Dialogue (a.k.a. The Conversation) « em... - 0 views

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Venessa Miemis Jorge Jaime social networking communication

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  • Keith Hamon on 01 Jun 10
     
    The Internet is the ultimate human communication tool, yet communication needs certain guidelines to be really effective.
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