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…
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Week Three – Multimodal Tutorials #ORMSMOOC
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…
Week One – Online Research & Media Skills in Today’s Classroom #ORMSMOOC
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…
Come join us for the Online Research and Media Skills (ORMS) MOOC
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…
Why in the world would you want to develop a Massive Open, Online Course (MOOC)?
This post will contain the presentation materials and supplemental links for my session titled “Why in the world would you want to develop a MOOC – Teaching and Learning in Open, Online, Educational Spaces.” This talk was held at the Addlestone Library at the College of Charleston. In this session I’ll discuss my thinking and…
ReMEDIAting My Digital Identity for Make Cycle #2 #CLMOOC
For Make Cycle #2 of the CLMOOC 2015 we were asked to move media, or a message across multiple formats. In this work we were asked to consider how the media that we use to compose influence how we communicate and interpret. This means how do the specific affordances of a tool or medium (i.e.,…
Video Overview of the Online Research & Media Skills MOOC
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…
Create a Game or “Choose Your Own Adventure” Using Google Forms
For the third make of the 2014 Connected Learning MOOC (#CLMOOC) I was tasked with creating a Game. Due to recent events with the Facebook Mood Experiment, I wanted to create a simple game that would allow me to satirize the experiment, while educating users. I also wanted to play a bit with gaming. Initial…
Beta Testing of the Online Research and Media Skills MOOC
Next week we will begin beta testing of the ORMS MOOC. This journey has been a long one that I’ve documented the various developmental changes here on this blog. The beta testing will be conducted by about a dozen educators globally. The purpose of the beta testing is to identify potential issues and errors in…
Why in the World Would You Build an Open Educational MOOC?
TL;DR version: In this blog post I reflect on what I believe to be the most essential question behind development of a MOOC, or an open educational resource – WHY? I’ve been receiving this question a lot lately and wanted to share my thoughts on the work we’ve completed, and where we’re headed. Over the past couple…