xMOOC: of participation and offline apps
Fri, Oct 26 2012 15:00
| #CFHE12, apps, assessment, cMOOC, instructionalDesign, iOS, participation, xMOOC
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**sigh**The mobile client ate my post! I will try to reconstitute as much of it as I remember ;-)In this blog post I am continuing the train of though started by thinking about different levels of participation, and my blog post on MOOC registration. Since MOOCs are generally not taken for credit, and since they generally don't need to conform to some sort of departmental outcomes standard (i.e.
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Campus Tech 2012 wrap up
Fri, Jul 20 2012 18:00
| Campus Technology, Conference, iOS, LMS, mLearning, mobile, MOOC, SloanC, tablet, technology
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Well, one more campus technology conference and expo is done!The Campus Technology annual summer conference is the nation’s premier higher education technology conference, where leading innovators and experts in technology for higher education guide faculty, instructional designers, eLearning program managers, information technologists, and campus administrators into the new realm of teaching and
DS106 - hmmm...to participate or not?
Tue, Jan 3 2012 17:18
| ds106, iOS, MOOC, programming, Storytelling
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The other day I was talking about digital storytelling with some colleagues and I decided to recommend Ds106, the digital storytelling MOOC that ran last year. The material is still all out there, so people could still take it as OER and just self-pace through the material. Last year I was in a bit of MOOC overload, with LAK11, CCK11, MobiMOOC, eduMOOC and Change that I didn't have much time
Use your medium appropriately
Mon, Dec 19 2011 05:42
| Campus Technology, educationTechnology, iOS
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I was reading an article on tablet computing that @rjhogue had emailed me and it brought to mind (again) the need to be able to rethink your processes and your affordances when working with a new medium. For example, looking at eBooks, most eBooks are just text - which is fine, but it doesn't utilize the medium (iPad) very well. Now take a look at Operation Ajax, a graphic novel on the iPad,
My own grand experiment...
Thu, Sep 29 2011 17:30
| #change11, #change11digschol, ChangeMOOC, iOS, mobiMOOC, MOOC, tablet
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Despite the fact that I am technically a digital native (BS and meaningless as this term might be) I still cling to paper - perhaps because it's cheap and (up until recently) freely available. With a plethora of academic articles piling up, and eBooks to read (granted, most are public domain like the Divine Comedy and The Prince), I thought I would shed my reliance on paper this semester and
iPhone app dev workshop
Tue, Jul 19 2011 20:23
| development, iOS, programming, workshop
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Well, the first workshop was today and it was quite interesting. As I suspected there were quite a few K-12 teachers there interested in getting started with iOS app development so this can trickle down into the high school computer science curriculum; there were some higher education folks there as well.Even though the workshop was all day, you can't really get that deep into app development