Welcome to week five of the Online Research and Media Skills (ORMS) Mentored Open Online Community (MOOC). The ORMS MOOC has existed in different iterations over the last two years. This current version is developed as an open learning experience for students in ED 6671 (syllabus here). ED 6671 examines opportunities for the use of instructional technologies in…
Welcome to week four of the Online Research and Media Skills (ORMS) Mentored Open Online Community (MOOC). The ORMS MOOC has existed in different iterations over the last two years. This current version is developed as an open learning experience for students in ED 6671 (syllabus here). ED 6671 examines opportunities for the use of instructional…
Welcome to week three of the Online Research and Media Skills (ORMS) Mentored Open Online Community (MOOC). The ORMS MOOC has existed in different iterations over the last two years. This current version is developed as an open learning experience for students in ED 6671 (syllabus here). ED 6671 examines opportunities for the use of instructional technologies in…
Hello all, welcome to the latest version of the Online Research and Media Skills (ORMS) Mentored Open Online Community (MOOC). The ORMS MOOC has run in different iterations over the past two years since the development of the ORMS model and the MOOC. You can check on the development of the community by following this tag. The purpose…
TL;DR Version: Come join, lurk, connect, share, and learn in the Online Research & Media Skills MOOC. We’ll be discussing ways to integrate the Mozilla Web Literacy Map into our classroom. And…yeap…we’ve got badges. Join here. Come join us for the first official running of the Online Research & Media Skills (ORMS) moderated, open, online…
I had the opportunity this morning to “speak” to a great group of students in the Two Summers Program at UConn. I previously taught in the program and like to maintain connections with the faculty and students in the program. For this talk I video conferenced in using a Google Hangout on Air, and used…
I put together a video overview in which I talk through some of the elements of the Online Research and Media Skills (ORMS) Mentored Open, Online Community (MOOC). The ORMS MOOC examines opportunities for the use of instructional technologies in an educational context. We’ll not only discuss what to use in your classroom…but also how to…
TL;DR version: An update in my continued exploration and development of a digital badging system. At this point…it’s good news. Scroll to the bottom to review the relaunch of the badges. It has been awhile, but throughout this blog I’ve had a thread that documents my trials and tribulations as I build, and rebuild my…
I’ve been teaching a class called New Literacies Research and Practice (or some variant of that title) for about eight years now. Searching through my emails to get prepared for this post I found copies of the syllabi I produced for the class throughout time. I recently threw most of the syllabus and the course in…
I recently had the privelege of presenting a two day session to the participants of the Keystone State Reading Association‘s Leadership Workshop. Under the direction of KSRA President Julie Wise, the organization is thoughtfully investigating ways to integrate digital texts and tools into their organizational work flow. As part of this initiative, they have a year long series…