As I posted a little over two weeks ago, I just finished my first MOOC. No sooner after I finished the open educational resource did I start to think about edits and revisions that needed to be made to streamline learning for participants. My plan is to build address the “Next Steps” I detail at…
TL;DR version: The ORMS class is an open, online class which provides educators with an understanding of a research-tested way to embed new literacies in the CCSS. To take the course, please click here. It’s finally complete. I finished my first “MOOC.” In the traditional sense it is not a MOOC as currently understood in…
Over the past couple of months I’ve been trying to help out on the community calls for Mozilla as they develop new Web Literacies and learning standards. To follow these developments and join in you can either view the archive of the meetings here, or the latest versions on Doug Belshaw’s blog. The structure and alignment…
I’ll be presenting the friday keynote at the Literacy & Learning Conference on May 24th, 2013. The keynote and associated breakout session will focus on the Common Core State Standards and possible uses of new and digital literacies in instruction. Specifically, I’ll be focusing on the Online Research and Media Skills Curriculum that I developed…
Today we celebrate Digital Learning Day in a number of celebrations online and offline. The focus is on the authentic and effective use of technology in our classrooms. As always, the focus should be on using digital texts and tools to positively affect student learning objectives in our classrooms. Don’t get me wrong, I’m as excited as…
I have the privilege of speaking to a class of teachers from Argentina tomorrow about possible effective and authentic uses of technology in the classroom. I was invited in by Carolina Orgnero who taught me my first class on qualitative research and methods while at UConn. I’ll be sharing some ideas I’ve fleshed out over the years with my…
After the completion of the MA New Literacies Institute, I spent a good amount of time reflecting of the week of work. I considered the implications of the work we’ve conducted so far in trumpeting the need for authentic and effective use of technology in the classroom. I considered my own responsibilities and the responsibilities of teachers as these technologies are (could be)…
I’ve been meaning to test out Storify for some time now. I finally took the time to sign up two days ago, feel free to check me out here. Storify will pull info from various social network feeds and compile a “story” from all of this. I also plugged Storify up to my account on IFTTT so all…
We’ve had iPads here in the Education Department for a little over a month now. The University and the College of Arts and Sciences graciously agreed to supply the tools to everyone for administrative and instructional use. Now that we’ve gotten over the initial distribution, I’d like to share some of what we’ve learned so…
As we continue to unpack how to teach our elementary students how to effectively read online, tonight in class we examine several techniques we can use in our classrooms. The first of these techniques would include identifying specific types of online information our students may come into contact with as they read online. At this…