Podcasts are becoming very popular as a new storytelling medium to spread ideas and your message online. In this series of posts, I’ll detail everything that you’ll need to know as you get started in the world of podcasting. We spent some time in our first post understanding, subscribing, and listening to podcasts. This post…
On March 22nd, 2016, I presented on the Open Badges in Higher Ed working group call. The purpose of the call was to speak about some of my thinking about blockchain technologies and potential futures in research and development. In the discussion I defined blockchain and related technologies. I also discussed the work conducted up…
Pecha Kucha (PK) is Japanese (ペチャクチャ) for “chit-chat” and is a presentation style in which 20 slides are shown for 20 seconds each (6 minutes and 40 seconds in total). The format keeps presentations concise and fast-paced. This in turn powers multiple-speaker events, while keeping the interest level up. The short format gives more people the…
I presented an institute on Online and Blended Learning at SCSU that focused on the theory and “nuts & bolts” of building online learning environments to support learners in higher education. In this post I am openly sharing my materials for the session. These materials include my three presentations decks, one for each of the three…
We love in a multimodal world where our students are inundated with a steady stream of media and digital content. ICT tools have the ability to reach certain students that would usually have troubles with the traditional forms of “text” that we privilege in our classrooms. But, with all of the advantages and excitement surrounding…
As I research and develop digital badges, I’m thoughtful about aspects of value, credibility, and “sincerity” of design in the badging infrastructure. Put simply, I believe that people will make judgments about the believability, credibility, and relevance of the digital badges based on elements of the metadata, the images used, and where the badge is hosted.…
In our discussions over the past couple of months about what would ultimately become BadgeChain, we’ve been trying to unpack what would happen if we injected blockchain technologies into an open badges framework. Keep in mind that we started with an examination of blockchain and open badges, but we’re exploring and not entirely sure where…
In a post I discussed how (and why) to start reading in Medium. I then moved to writing and publishing in Medium. The last post shared some tips and tricks for long form and advanced writing on the platform. In this post I’ll share how and why you should syndicate your posts to Medium. Why…
Over the last couple of years I’ve been involved in different initiatives. Some of these have been working for pay, and some have been working as a member of the community to advance a project or the field. What has troubled me as of late is that in much of this work, there are supervisors, superiors,…
Over the last couple of years I’ve been working with a great series of colleagues in literacy research and education to develop a podcasting series. In the Research to Practice (R2P) series of shows (available on the YouTube channel for now), we bring on literacy scholars and classroom teachers/students to discuss current research in the…