Category: General

  • May 6, 2009

    Tag Cloud Wordle

    world.net/create I was looking at a wordle for Word Weavers and thought about doing a wordle for the TS tag cloud. Here it is below

  • Apr 27, 2009

    SPAM

    Quite a bit of spam over the weekend that people have been sending complaints in about. It is likely a new spam attack vector that our filters didn’t detect. The filter updates each day so hopefully it will subside.

  • Apr 23, 2009

    Digme (digital media)…

    time for some disruptive changes to teaching practice to engage students http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OxIz_3o3O0

  • Apr 23, 2009

    5 challenges and 5 discontinuities

    David Porter How do you harness the disroptive technologies in your classroom? The backchannel is very productive and should be enhanced! Twitter questions? Should we outsource infrastructure to free up people who maintain it? We are with mail! Curric develop should be done by teacher/ professionals/private together www.sfu.ca/~davidp/LNBC.pdf 5 Challenges 1 Reaching and engaging today’s […]

  • Apr 23, 2009

    inspire learning by being technologically adventurous

    There has been an alarming increase in the things I do not know! This statement can make our staff uncomfortable as the traditional sage on the stage role has been to know it all! Time to switch in many cases to guide on the side. Triple bottom line… Employees Students Community Do we look at […]

  • Apr 22, 2009

    Privacy and Disclosure in Online Environments

    Judith Blanchette Privacy in web2.0 What does privacy mean to you? Safety issues for youth as they might not realize what they are doing or where they are releasing their info. Three types 1 informational (psychological) 2 accessibility (Physical) 3 expressive (Interactional) Actual privacy (objective) Perceived privacy (subjective) Photo by bekathwia (sweater) There exists generational […]

  • Apr 22, 2009

    7 principles of online education

    1 contact between students and faculty 2 develop cooperation among students 3encourage active learning 4 give prompt feedback 5 emphasize time on task 6 communicate high expectations 7 respect diverse talents and ways of learning

  • Apr 22, 2009

    lego robotics

    Dereck has create a robotics 9 course using lego mindstorms. Basic kits are around 400 dollars. Need a computer. Uses Spectrum to supply parts. Funded through mitchell odessey. About 6000 for a class lab plus computers. Enhances math, physics, engineering, problem solving etc. Many partners with universities and schools. Could be a great DL course.students […]