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@Ignatia Webs: free eBook with 61 tips for #mLearning from eLearning Guild

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So What Happened to Learning?

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I sift through reams of words and worlds of pedagogy. I blink through bytes of pedagogy and educational concerns. May 2013 and still the drums beat on about 21st Century Learning. May 2013, and one...
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The Top Ten Reasons I Love Scrivener

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April Aasheim shares her top ten reasons why she wouldn't start her next novel without Scrivener.
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Paperless Admin for Teachers – Some Tips and Tricks to Get You Started

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Aside from having a somewhat tidier desk, going paperless has been enormously beneficial. I can now access student information anywhere and at any time.
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12 Types of Blog Posts You Need to Stop Writing

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There are some good points here.

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Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org: Flat and Connected Learning: A Recipe for Success

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Is training really the answer? Ask the flowchart.

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Surviving the reading marathon - Reading Advice for PhD Students

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Recently @indecisionpersonified asked me a question in the Thesis Whisperer feedback forum: "... I have just moved continents and been accepted into a PhD program and have six free months before I ...
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Ditch the A4 mentality – seriously.

Look, I get that paper is a nice format to read. Portable and easy to mark up. I agree that there is nothing quite as satisfying as scribbling “WHAT??!!” and “WRONG!!” in the margins of a paper you dislike, but people – it’s time to face facts: A4 thinking’, as Chris Bigum puts it, will hold you back as a scholar. Reading electronically allows you to, as I put it earlier, “read like a mongrel”. Mongrel reading means scanning to ascertain if you need to bother reading more deeply.

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From Abigail Adams to Anne Sexton to Maya Angelou, History’s Finest Letters of Motherly Advice

From Abigail Adams to Anne Sexton to Maya Angelou, History’s Finest Letters of Motherly Advice | Voices in the Feminine - Digital Delights | Scoop.it
"Live to the HILT!"

Last year, we celebrated Father's Day with an omnibus of history's finest letters of fatherly advice, including F. Sc
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In Letter to My Daughter (public library), which also gave us her beautiful meditation on home and belonging, beloved author and reconstructionist Maya Angelou writes to the daughter she never had:


You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud. Do not complain. Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.


Never whine. Whining lets a brute know that a victim is in the neighborhood.


Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.

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Why Online Courses [Really] Need an Instructional Design Strategy

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In this post I examine and define instructional design, and share why it’s essential to the development of online courses. "Design brings forth what would not come naturally"  Klaus Krippendorff De...
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How to Integrate Technology

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This guide is organized into six sections:

Introduction
Why Integrate Tech?
What Is Tech Integration?
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This article contains the following sections:

Ivon Prefontaine's curator insight, May 11, 12:46 PM

If we integrate technology effectively, the questions should be much clearer. We can have mindful practices

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If You Use the Web, You Are a 'Curator'

If You Use the Web, You Are a 'Curator' | Voices in the Feminine - Digital Delights | Scoop.it
A curator ingests, analyzes and contextualizes web content. Whether you like it or not, you've curated and will continue to do so as long as you're online.
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A curator ingests, analyzes and contextualizes web content and information of a particular nature onto a platform or into a format we can understand. In other words, a curator is like that person at the beach with the metal detector, surfacing items and relics of perceived value. Only, a web curator shares those gems of content with their online audiences.


And since people create 571 new websites every minute, tweet 175 million times per day and upload 48 hours of new video each minute, a curator's work is never done.

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The thorny issue of MOOCs and OER

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Along with the news that GCU and the Scottish College Development Network are developing guidelines for the creation and use of open educational resources, another Scottish news item caught my attention this week.
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Digital literacies -Teens & social networks

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Photo by Nico Cavallotto   A few years back my daughter (then aged 14) told me she was going out. To meet a friend at lunchtime. I asked who. A
Ivon Prefontaine's curator insight, May 10, 7:07 PM

I agree. The bad things are not the norm, but I do not want things to happen to any child. The rest of the article suggests positive ways for adults to help children navigate the web.

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The Comments Are Closed - Audrey Watters

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"I’ve been blogging for a very, very long time now, and in doing so I have found incredible support online — found myself part of many intellectual, personal, and professional communities. But the “community” — that is, the commenters and my interactions with them — on my early personal blogs was quite different than what exists on most the technology blogs I’ve since worked and written for. More often, it’s not “community” at all.

And as Hack Education has gained a larger readership, the commenters have become more like the latter (like tech sites) than the former. Yet, Hack Education remains my personal (albeit education-focused) blog. It’s just me here. No other staff. No “social media editor.” No “community manager.” That makes the comments — particularly the hostile ones — harder to deal with.

It’s become increasingly clear to me that I am not building any sort of community through the comments on this site. If nothing else, I just don’t have the time (or the stomach) to moderate and respond. And moderation of comments is absolutely necessary.

That’s not to say I don’t believe in engaging with my readers and my peers and my friends and my colleagues online. That’s not to say I don’t believe in engaging with my critics. That’s not to say I’m uninterested in hearing feedback (or copy-editing) on my stories. But blog comments just aren’t the place that this is happening."

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Loveless #MOOCs

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Teaching & Learning
Is there a paradigm shift to learning in higher education or are universities going to continue focusing on content delivery and expect teachers to instruct and teach? What do we want our students to be able to do and where do we want them to be once they complete a course? Do we want them to repeat information or use the information to create and become innovators of new information?

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Have we lost the human touch? Are we using technology or is technology using us? Have we lost the human touch in education?

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Connected Learning: A Learning Approach Designed for Our Times

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What does connected learning look like in action? It looks like Charles Raben, a 14-year-old aspiring photographer from a public school in New York City.
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FLAT - What is Flat Learning?

Julie Lindsay ECIS IT 2013 keynote
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Summarizing the Learning Ecosystem

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Who are we now that We're Online? Connected Learners, Connected Edu...

What does it mean to be a networked teacher-learner hybrid?
Ivon Prefontaine's curator insight, May 13, 6:27 PM

Actually, there is no evidence that suggests going on-line moves us away from institutional concepts. That is the critical theorists in me raising up.

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How Can I Coach A Resistant Teacher? (Part 2)

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This week I'm posting a series of responses to the most common question I received: How can I coach a resistant teacher? Let's start with this: Some people are not coachable.
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Does Your eLearning Course Look Good? Ask These 6 Questions

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How do you make sure that your eLearning courses look good? Ask yourself these six questions!
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Does Your eLearning Course Look Good? Ask These 6 Questions | @scoopit via @juandoming http://sco.lt/...

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5 principles for a successful formal online social learning experience – and it’s not about the tools

5 principles for a successful formal online social learning experience – and it’s not about the tools | Voices in the Feminine - Digital Delights | Scoop.it
There has been a lot of talk about the use of social media tools in formal workplace learning; and I am regularly asked to review initiatives of this kind. In many instances, the use of social tool...
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Public speaking for academics – 10 tips

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Experts share rules of thumb from vocabulary and technology to handling difficult questions – and your own first-time nerves
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5 Ways To Innovate By Cross-Pollinating Ideas

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Editors’ note: The following is an adapted excerpt of InGenius (Harper One) by Tina Seelig.What happens when you cross a checkerboard with a midnight snack?
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Wiggio Blog » Blog Archive » Top Reasons to Use an ePortfolio

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Surprise! Facial expressions aren't necessarily universal

Surprise! Facial expressions aren't necessarily universal | Voices in the Feminine - Digital Delights | Scoop.it
You can tell a lot about a person’s emotional state by looking at their face.
donhornsby's curator insight, May 10, 7:16 AM

(From the article): You can tell a lot about a person’s emotional state by looking at their face. A quick glance can give you an idea of whether a person is, say, happy or angry, allowing you to modify your behaviour accordingly.

 

The rapid and accurate recognition of some emotional states – particularly fear or anger – would have been advantageous in our evolutionary history. For instance, being able to determine when someone is angry with you might give you time to run away before they attack.

 

For this reason, you might think the way emotions are expressed on the face would be the same across all races and not substantially influenced by culture.

 

But new research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by psychologist Rachael Jack and colleagues seems to show this isn’t the case.