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…
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…
This trimester students in our IT&DML program will begin building and refining their digital learning hub. As I detailed in a previous post, the digital learning hub is viewed as the teaching space, or the teacher website for each individual. The “hub” as it is affectionately referred to is a sister-site to the blog that…
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…
This afternoon I have the privilege of attending and presenting at the Treasure Mountain Research Retreat. According to their website, Treasure Mountain is a group of school library researchers and practitioners that initially met in conjunction with the AASL National Conference in 1989. In a round-table session today I’ll be presenting on the work that…
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…
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…
I learned a tough lesson yesterday. As I’ve detailed here on this blog, I’ve been involved in developing an open badge initiative to partner up with my ORMS model and MOOC. Over the past couple of months we’ve developed a series of open badges and uploaded them into badges.mozilla.org. Yesterday I went to my MOOC…
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…
This morning I’ll have the opportunity to address educators at the 2013 PIER Summer Institute at Yale University. The theme of this year’s Institute is Global Youth in the Digital Age. One of the key components in the materials and threads I’ve seen coming out of the Institute includes an understanding of the term “engagement.” I…