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d me about lrnchat on twitter you can find transcripts here and i eagerly wanted to check things out what is lrnchat lrnchat is an online chat that happens every thursday night 8 30 10pm est 5 30 7pm pst over the social messaging service twitter participants are people interested in the topic of learning from one another and who want to discuss how to help other people learn i haven t had a chance to participate in a lrnchat session because when it s on i am generally tired the morning following a lrnchat session i feel as though my twitter stream has been spammed and spammed badly i only get one side of the conversation with some quotes that are just like whaaaaaa and others that are awesome pearls of wisdom in an of themselves that can stand without context now i can post a comment read more paying students for academic achievement get link facebook x pinterest email other apps september 18 2009 this months started off with a show me the money theme both for pre college and college level kids first we had a story on nrp asking whether paying for grades cheapens education and then we had a story from indiana university s pressroom on their incentive grants for students who do well in school i fall somewhere in between the two positions of to pay and not to pay when i was in school i did not get money from my parents for bringing home a good report card however i did get certain allowances like being able to play computer games on my 68040 performa no fpu and being in a better bargaining position when it came to buying new video games when i was in college it was expected that i was an adult and i was responsible enough to value the education that i was paying for of course what it comes down to is this whether in k 12 or in college we end up paying for education nothing is free if you want to reward kids for doing well in k 12 post a comment read more what is an instructional designer get link facebook x pinterest email other apps september 16 2009 i was reading inside higher ed earlier this week and there was an interesting list similar to educause s 7 things lists about what define a learning technologists out of this list these three points are quite interesting to me and quite possibly define my weltsanschauung with regard to educational technology and my likes at work we learning technologists share a healthy skepticism towards the dominant commercial cms blackboard put another way our relationship with blackboard is often ambivalent philosophically i think many of us are drawn to open and community source platforms and business models there is an important conversation going on in our profession about the advantages of sticking with blackboard as our campus cms which there are many versus moving in larger numbers to an open source alternative with moodle getting the most traction lately this conversation will continue to dominate our profession personally it s not like i hate blackboard it s 2 comments read more the learning 2 0 strategy get link facebook x pinterest email other apps september 14 2009 i was recently reading a wrap up post on elearningtech which pointed me to an older post that tony karrer had written in this post tony writes about the key aspects of learning 2 0 briefly summarized here start tactical and bottom up avoid the culture question avoid highly regulated content and lawyers learning professionals must lead prepare workers for learning 2 0 technology is tactical not strategic avoid the cio what s interesting about this is that this is the way that i ve started building out the instructional design network of students and alumni and other people involved with the graduate program at umass boston first with ning then adding on a wiki and other services that can help both students and alumni what i find interesting is that all the members of the community are learning professionals or want to be learning professionals anyway but we are still experiencing the same types of issues that any organization faces it s a real culture change post a comment read more barriers to technology accessibility a myth get link facebook x pinterest email other apps september 11 2009 i was reading an article recently on the 5 myths of mobile learning while i somewhat agree with most of what is said i take issue with the accessibility and cost myth this was perhaps one of the stranger myths i encountered that personal mobile computing devices are inaccessible because of the inherent cost barriers looking around me here in india at the amazing rate of adoption of mobile devices see mobile learning in india and the availability of mobile networks capable of data that now range contiguously across india see networks in rural india its obvious cost is hardly a factor in the mobile learning equation phones today cost far less than they ever did do far more and are cheaper to use because network usage charges are dropping consistently these factors contribute to increased technology availability and subsequent adoption i think that it depends on what the meaning of mobile is and even then there are accessibility constraints not everyone carrie post a comment read more missing those firedrills get link facebook x pinterest email other apps september 09 2009 aaaaah first week back to classes after a summer of classes and lots of rain and the beloved fire drills are back of course i won t be participating in te firedrills because we don t have any in the library building i remember that as an undergraduate i loved fire drills because it got me out of class as an employee i hated them because there was always a chance that something would go missing and now that i haven t had a firedrills on five years i strangely find myself missing them odd very odd indeed post from my iphone post a comment read more i am no good at computers get link facebook x pinterest email other apps september 07 2009 well the semester started and i invariably got my first i m sorry i m just no good at computers comment from someone at work this reminded me of a post that i saw on dangerously irrelevant a few weeks back i first started hearing this a couple of years back and ever got it this quote from dangerously irrelevant was really interesting what does this say about us as educators as employees of supposed learning organizations who purportedly are all about life long learning is saying i m not very good at computers the modern counterpart to i m not good at math both typically accompanied by a chuckle and a c est la vie hand wave as if it didn t matter personally i ve never heard of i m just no good at math granted i am not the best at math but i still do try and i do get a correct answer eventually i ve never had a c est la vie attitude about not being able to do math and i post a comment read more post hoc versus post doc get link facebook x pinterest email other apps september 04 2009 a little friday humor for you all post a comment read more media literacy for the 21st century get link facebook x pinterest email other apps september 02 2009 here s a nice little clip of rheingold on media literacy a quick run down of his literacies attention participation collaboration critical consumption aka crap detection omg he said crap personally i would have called it bullshit detector or is that a different category 21st century media literacies from jd lasica on vimeo post a comment read more conversation simulation software get link facebook x pinterest email other apps august 31 2009 while i was exploring the options for conversation simulation software i am not that skilled with flash so that would take way too long to accomplish i came across kdsimstudio via elearning learning i was really excited to try it out since it seemed straight forward and easy to use and there was a demo version that i could try the software looks nice but i found out that it only supports roman character sets maybe even just ascii so all my greek looks like gibberish too bad because i thought that this software would have been great for language education post a comment read more google for education get link facebook x pinterest email other apps august 28 2009 i love the phrase collaborating like it s 1999 post a comment read more what does a d stand for get link facebook x pinterest email other apps august 26 2009 earlier this month i was reading the sinkhole ahead blog post on inside higher ed which prompted me to read this little rant on the d written by the same author you know it s funny i ve been a student for quite some time now and i ve never thought of the d much one semester in my undergrad i just wanted to get a d in calculus ii so that i can pass and move on calculus ii wasn t required for any subsequent courses but i had to take it and pass it and quite honestly i felt like i was being dragged behind a bus in any case what is debated is what role does d satisfy i ve always thought about the letter grade system as being things similar to my greek elementary school grading a αριστο excellent b πολύ καλό very good c καλό satisfactory good d μέτριο so so not quite fail not quite satisfactory needs work f 0 zero now one of the blog posts mentions the following d s make some level of sense if you believe the a post a comment read more getting out of grading seriously get link facebook x pinterest email other apps august 24 2009 earlier this month i was reading an article on inside higher ed about about a duke administrator that went back into teaching how she found grading so tiresome that she decided to outsource it to her students yes indeed students in her class also graded each others papers this professor writes i can t think of a more meaningless superficial cynical way to evaluate learning than by assigning a grade it turns learning which should be a deep pleasure setting up for a lifetime of curiosity into a crass competition how do i snag the highest grade for the least amount of work how do i give the prof what she wants so i can get the a that i need for med school that s the opposite of learning and curiosity the opposite of everything i believe as a teacher and is quite frankly a waste of my time and the students time there has to be a better way i honestly fail to see what s superficial about grading it s not a beauty contest among the students e post a comment read more the wrath of khan get link facebook x pinterest email other apps august 21 2009 a little friday phd humor for you i have to say that i ve never been that inventive with my project names i just go off swearing up a storm when something does not work post a comment read more on esl and critical thinking some reactions get link facebook x pinterest email other apps august 18 2009 i was reading a post titled language learning critical thinking and the role of the teacher on the linguist the other day and i was really surprised now granted i am not a member of his list serv perhaps i should be to get the whole story even though esl isn t my immediate field of interest now long story short here it appears that some people have their feathers ruffled because of the belief that critical thinking should or should not be included in the foreign language curriculum personally i think that critical thinking activities should be part of the curriculum in any language learning situation because when you are learning a language you are also learning about many other things that influence a language such as culture history popular sayings predispositions of the natives and so on language is not used in a vacuum and simply learning more vocabulary doesn t mean that you will necessarily be getting more comprehensible input yousef writes in the co post a comment read more should we abolish copyright on academic works get link facebook x pinterest email other apps august 16 2009 my two cents i saw this on techdirt about a month ago and it s been lingering in my google reader starred items ever since i ve made a good faith effort to read the original but my brain is a bit fried from this summer and i would like to save a few braincells for the fall semester here s the abstract for the paper the conventional rationale for copyright of written works that copyright is needed to foster their creation is seemingly of limited applicability to the academic domain for in a world without copyright of academic writing academics would still benefit from publishing in the major way that they do now namely from gaining scholarly esteem yet publishers would presumably have to impose fees on authors because publishers would not be able to profit from reader charges if these publication fees would be borne by academics their incentives to publish would be reduced but if the publication fees would usually be paid by universities or grantors th post a comment read more classes over get link facebook x pinterest email other apps august 14 2009 wow classes are over i suppose i should pop the cork off some wine or something and celebrate then again school starts again in a couple of weeks so it will be a short lived celebration this summer went by quite fast i don t know if it was the crazy weather mostly gray and rainy or the fact that i had homework in the summer oh well i still have at least three weeks of homework free and blackboard free time to enjoy the rest of the summer hopefully this time next year i will be done with my instructional design degree post a comment read more selecting an lms get link facebook x pinterest email other apps august 12 2009 selecting an lms is probably not an easy thing for an organization because many different faculty probably have many different requirements for their classes this exercise in lms selection then becomes a balancing act between cost ease of use and fulfilling as many of the user requirements as possible last summer when i was taking insdsg 619 we spoke about these issues but at a surface level since that wasn t the focus of the course i think it would be great to offer a course on lms selection and administration so that students can get their hands dirty with a few types of lms before graduating this of course would require the 800lb gorilla in the room blackboard to work out a deal with the university department to allow for cheap or free experimentation i came across this small checklist for those who are in the process of thinking of an lms click here in lieu of a full course it s good enough to get you started thinking about the issues post a comment read more depth or breath get link facebook x pinterest email other apps august 10 2009 i was reading this on slashdot the other day about a person going back to school to complete their computer science degree here s a quick quote i recently went back to college to finish my cs degree however this time i moved to a new school my previous school taught only c except for a few higher level electives opengl the school i am now attending teaches what seems like every language in the 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