Yes, I appreciate that it’s probably not a word, but for some of you out there in the ether, it’s probably summing up how you feel right now.
Welcome to day two. The tasks for this week are intended to get us linked up and established. You’re going to use all these very simple tools to experience an online course in ways that do not mimic the classroom. There’s a method in my madness.
For a run down on the tools, see “Eating the Elephant.”
One of the recurring themes in our discussions over the last few weeks is an expressed need for better/more professional development. Check this out and remember that you’re all 21st Century Learners.
One of the great things about being a teacher today is the wealth of resources available. A great thing about RSS is that, by picking a few good voices to listen to, you can get a really good network of resources. You may not link directly to the interesting thing, but somebody you’re listening to might. Vicki Davis is one of those voices. In Online Connections Course gets a Cool Cat Teacher Award Cool Cat points us to an excellent exemplar of the use of some of these tools in an actual class.
There’s good stuff here. Lots of it.
Toynbee is famously credited with the statement “Those who forget the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.” Where does distance education begin and how do we define it? How has it changed over time?
As you examine the history of the field notice how the definition is almost always tied to some mediating technology. Here are two places to start:
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It’s been so long since I’ve posted, you probably think I’ve given up.
Wrong! Check out the links in this post over at the Shifted Librarian.
I like to take one day a week and look back at where we’ve come.
This time last week, many of you were getting emails from me even before the course was underway, to urge you to start getting connected. I’ll confess it was with some trepidation that I laid out the list of communications tools that I wanted to use for the basic tool set for the course. Most of you have discovered that Blackboard holds almost no content — only that which we need to get going and to satisfy the university. Since last Sunday, almost all of you have created blogs and established a network of information with your aggregators, subscribed to the list, set up your accounts on TappedIn, and — for most of you — that was in the first couple of days. You guys have done great work and we’re going to use this nice foundation to build on.
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Sorry, I meant to release this sooner, because they were having one of their events this week and I left it too long.
Innovate Online is an online journal of distance education. It’s peer reviewed like any other journal and edited by James L. Morrison. I have some problems with the journal in that it’s not *really* what an online journal should be, but it does have some nice features. You can comment on the articles, and often the discussion is at least as interesting as the articles. They also have webcasts featuring many of the authors. I’ve posted a link on bB’s external links page along with a schedule. You’ll need to go thru the free registration process in order to participate.
See InnovateOnline at http://innovateonline.info
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