Showing posts with label blc10. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blc10. Show all posts
Friday, July 16, 2010
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Dean Shareski - What Can You Do With 4 Billion Photos?
Here is the handout rom Dean Shareski's AWESOME session on using Flickr today: http://bit.ly/flickrblc10 -- below are his slides from the presentation.
I'm already a big fan of Flickr, but he gave lots of great ideas about ways to use it with students. He also made a big pitch for signing up for Flickr Pro, which at $24.95/year seems like money well spent.
I'm already a big fan of Flickr, but he gave lots of great ideas about ways to use it with students. He also made a big pitch for signing up for Flickr Pro, which at $24.95/year seems like money well spent.
Jeff Utecht - Blended Learning Environments
Rachel and I attended Jeff Utecht's session on Blended Classrooms this afternoon. Jeff is at the American School in Bankok, Thailand. Here's a link to his handouts: http://wiki.thethinkingstick.com/page/Blended+Classrooms
Jeff shared the video below to illustrate how education will be shifting to include online education, and that many of our students (and children) will attend part or all of their college courses online!
A highlight of the session was when he broke us into groups of 4 and gave us 10 minutes to complete an assignment based on one of 4 scenarios. Here was ours:
Assistant to CEO: You are an assistant for a CEO of a large company. She has just approached you with the following task. “I have a meeting in 15 minutes with a perspective new client named Mint.com. I know nothing about them! I need you to research the company for me and have an e-mail in my inbox in 10 minutes with the run down of who this company is and what they do, and the potential for growth in the market in which they operate.”
Rachel and I worked with 2 other BLC participants from Arkansas and within 10 minutes we came up with a rather thorough run-down of the product, which we were then instructed to email to Jeff. It was amazing how much we were able to collaborate and accomplish and learn in the 10 short minutes! This would be an easy assignment to adapt.
He also discussed how his students in Bankok each have a blog that follows them as a digital portfolio throughout their years at the school. He wrote a post about overcoming our fears about students publishing online here: http://www.thethinkingstick.com/overcoming-our-fears
Jeff shared the video below to illustrate how education will be shifting to include online education, and that many of our students (and children) will attend part or all of their college courses online!
A highlight of the session was when he broke us into groups of 4 and gave us 10 minutes to complete an assignment based on one of 4 scenarios. Here was ours:
Assistant to CEO: You are an assistant for a CEO of a large company. She has just approached you with the following task. “I have a meeting in 15 minutes with a perspective new client named Mint.com. I know nothing about them! I need you to research the company for me and have an e-mail in my inbox in 10 minutes with the run down of who this company is and what they do, and the potential for growth in the market in which they operate.”
Rachel and I worked with 2 other BLC participants from Arkansas and within 10 minutes we came up with a rather thorough run-down of the product, which we were then instructed to email to Jeff. It was amazing how much we were able to collaborate and accomplish and learn in the 10 short minutes! This would be an easy assignment to adapt.
He also discussed how his students in Bankok each have a blog that follows them as a digital portfolio throughout their years at the school. He wrote a post about overcoming our fears about students publishing online here: http://www.thethinkingstick.com/overcoming-our-fears
Sunday, June 27, 2010
EIGHT MCDS Faculty to Attend BLC 2010!!
We are thrilled to be sending so many faculty members to Boston in mid-July! This will be a space for all of us to contribute our thoughts, notes and experiences from the conference. Here is a link to the conference page: http://novemberlearning.com/blc/
Saturday, June 26, 2010
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