Archive for March, 2010
What makes for effective learning & teaching?
Mar 25th
I have a very definitive view of what constitutes effective learning and teaching.
Effective learning and teaching experiences typically are:
- Active: Learners may, by design, cognitively influence the learning process.
- Collaborative: Learners are interdependent and reciprocally influence learning activities and outcomes.
- Authentic: Learners exhibit knowledge or perform a skill in a naturally occurring environment as possible.
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Loading ...Don’t Buy HP! A rant…
Mar 25th
I could rant for days, but I’ll leave most of it in this one post (which is likely to be longer).
About a year ago, my three daughters and I got my wife a new HP laptop for Mother’s Day. We needed another computer. I had second thoughts about buying HP based on a bad experience in 1992. But, it seemed like time to give the company another chance; it had been 18 years. Turns out… that was a mistake, and one that I will *never* make again. More >
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Mar 23rd
I don’t know how I have missed #edchat via Twitter since last July, but it’s an incredibly valuable resource and opportunity in my opinion. If you’re not familiar with Twitter…. In short, at any given time, there’s a variety of education topics being discussed by educators via Twitter posts; the “hash tag” #edchat is included in each post, so it makes it possible to search for and find any posts included in the larger discussion.
Shelly Terrell (@shellterrell) posted a more lengthy description of #edchat on her blog.
More information is also available at an EdChat Wiki.
The video below by Shelly also describes #edchat.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Texas Distance Learning Association, 2010
Mar 23rd
The TxDLA Conference is currently being held in Houston, Texas. Unfortunately, for a variety of reasons, I’ve not been able to attend this year; however, I’m hoping to track the conference online in real time and within an archive. I’m trying a couple of things to do that.
To the right is an embedded widget from Twubs.com for the conference. This allows tracking the conference hashtag #txdla in real time, but it does so a little more dynamically than the simple twitter search does: #txdla.
To archive the conference tweets, I’m looking at the TwapperKeeper.com notebook for the #txdla tweets; though it’s performance thus far has not been all that great. I’ve also used Google Reader to subscribe to the RSS feed for the #txdla Twitter Search. While Twitter search doesn’t go back past 30 days, Google Reader does capture and store those tweets in its own RSS feed which I’ve shared.
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