Educating in the 21st Century [Shift Happens!]

Useful reference.

Looks very interesting

The challenge is this – How can you effectively teach thousands of students simultaneously? I’m fascinated by the contrast between post-secondary faculty and K-12 teacher contract agreements that limit class size and the current emergent MOOC aim of having as many enrollments as possible. What a dichotomy.

MOOC’s have done a great job at creating courses open to massive enrollments from anywhere around the world. But how well are MOOC’s doing at actually successfully teaching those students? Based on MOOCs equally massive dropout rates having teaching and learning success on a massive scale will require pedagogical innovation. It’s this innovation, more than massive enrollments or free that I think make MOOC’s important. 

A really great introduction to OER from Michael Paskevicius, University of Cape Town. Certainly will prove useful to those on the teaching team who have only recently started to explore the open movement and creative commons in particular.

ReviewStudio is a web-based collaborative app which allows you to upload video clips, PDF and image files that you want to be checked, commented and criticized by other people (teammates, clients, etc.).

ReviewStudio lets you annotate, markup, comment and review/approve any type of visual work, including frame-precise annotation on video footage.

File formats supported:

• Images – PNG, JPEG and GIF
• Single and multipage PDF files
• Video – mp4, mov, ogg, webm, flv, avi, wmv, asf
• MP3 Audio files.

With ReviewStudio it is possible to run live collaborative review sessions and to maintain a complete, searchable record of all content-related communications and activities that take place over the course of a project.

Formerly known as Cozimo, ReviewStudio is a very effective collaborative reviewing tool, providing an good set of markup tools and features that facilitate and speed-up the review and approval task.

Free 15-day trial available.

More info: https://www.reviewstudio.com/

Tutorial videos: https://www.reviewstudio.com/videos.php

FAQ: https://www.reviewstudio.com/help.php

Pricing: https://www.reviewstudio.com/pricing.php

Can never have enough rubrics. ;)

Great tool to use for publishing digitally and making your product interactive.

Awesome!

Up here in the Great Lakes region, we take water for granted.  That's especially true when we consider our food needs.  It's just going to be there.  This quick video reminds us that in many parts of the world (and in parts of the US) water and food issues are intertwined.

A list of some MOOCs you may want to join.

Uma experiência que deve ser estudada.

Thank you for sharing Jim. I have and will continue to promote Evernote to my students.

I love the versitility of this app, allowing students to work on assignment/notes at home on their phone, school on iPad, and anywhere and everywhere in between.

All the right buzzwords and concepts in this slideshow by Zaid Ali Alsagoff

Are you a 21st century educator? 

This is a pretty comprehensive introduction to the Open Education concept.  If you have any questions about the idea of Open Education....this presentation will answer your questions and offers a multitude of resources from around the world.

Umfangreicher Foliensatz (200+ Folien) von Zaid Ali Alsagoff, E-Learning Manager, International Medical University Malaysia

Finding support for talking about teaching and sharing teaching ideas after graduation can take many forms.

Les communautés modifient profondément la façon dont les enseignants développent leurs compétences professionnelles.

This is Awesome.Go to http://www.unn.edu.ng

Bricks and mortar institutions will need to adapt

April-May 2013 .. may be repeated.

I'm a fan of Google Docs. I rely on these tools all the time, and like many great pieces of software, it has many more capabilities and tools than most people know about. This blog post is a good overview of some of the key functions that would be useful to almost any educator trying to do a collaborative project with students - I see Google Docs as a great tool for collaborative and constructivist pedagogies.

Que vous soyez ou non un fan des TIC, essayez Google doc pour gérer vos activités. 

Our school just became a Google Apps for Education school, so this is a must for us!

This is not new - I taught the International Writing Exchange (IWE) from 1993, but technology allows much more nowadays. Go for it and learn whatever your heart desires!  Go for challenging courses though, not a book on the Web!! 

Information and knowledge is there. Only you decide what to make of it.

Sharing knowledge will always give you back more than what you give.

I have participated in one...have you? Try them out. Check out www.coursera.org for courses!

The clever bit is that as you click on previous notes you’ve made, the video will jump to that point, making this a really useful tool for navigating documentaries, study guides and other long, involved videos.

This is progressing fast

Useful concept map of Bloom's Taxonomy with a digital flavour on a great wiki --> Educational Origami http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Bloom's+Digital+Taxonomy

The beauty of this concept map lies in the addition of Creativity at the high order thinking level. How do you design learning so that students are enabled to creatively evidence their learning using digital media?

Two other useful posts on this include: http://www.onlineuniversities.com/blog/2012/06/flipping-expanding-blooms-taxonomy/ by Dr Justin W Marquis

and Bloom's Taxonomy Q&A Design Wheel http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/04/dont-miss-this-awesome-blooms-taxonomy.html

This is a nice infographic!

Videos used effectively can bring new life into your teaching arena!