McCarthey Dressman Learning Network

McCarthey Dressman Learning Network, a group on Flickr.

Disrupting College webinar today 11 am MT #educause #yam

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Reminder to Tune In As a reminder, you're invited to join your colleagues and Next Generation Learning Challenges today for "Disrupting College: How Disruptive Innovation Can Deliver Quality and Affordability to Postsecondary Education," a free web seminar as part of the NGLC "Summer Learning Series." Topic: Disrupting College: How Disruptive Innovation Can Deliver Quality and Affordability to Postsecondary Education Speaker: Louis Soares, Director, Postsecondary Education Program, Center for American Progress Date: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 Time: 1:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT, 11:00 a.m. MT, 10:00 a.m. PT) In today's web seminar, Soares will share key insights and observations from a recent report co-authored by Clayton Christensen, Michael Horn, and Louis Caldera that examines higher education through a lens of disruptive innovation. Rather than offering answers, Soares will challenge participants to consider new strategies for an educational system focused on success. How to Join The web seminar will be hosted inside the NGLC Adobe Connect webconferencing room. To join, simply enter the URL and select "Enter as a Guest," type in your name and affiliation (e.g., John Doe, American High School), and click "Enter Room." Once inside the room, audio will be provided through your computer speakers and presentation slides will advance on your screen. You can interact with fellow attendees and presenters using the chat feature inside the room. Today's web seminar is free and open to all, but virtual seats are limited. Attendance is first come, first served. Each session will be recorded and archived for later viewing. Technical Requirements Whether you've participated in an NGLC online event before or you're joining us for the first time, please run the Adobe Acrobat Connect Connection Test before the event. View the Adobe Connect technical requirements. Note: If you experience difficulties during the web seminar, you can listen to the audio via a toll-free conference call line at: 1-877-944-2300, access code 99290#. More Information For more information, including a complete listing of upcoming web seminars, visit the NGLC Upcoming Events page. Read more at educause.informz.net

 

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Bipartisan Bill Seeks to Remake Teacher Training Programs via @politicsk12

Should teacher training programs be accountable for student success?

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master microsharing, tame the FB monster

In my spare time I get the chance to work with the amazing community at Sloan Consortium. Hope you can join us the Facebook Intensive!

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cxn btwn instructional method & success

Are whole-class modes of instruction linked with increased problems of achievement motivation and disengagement for low-achieving students? Recent report from Teacher's College Record.

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blended instruction webinar 4pm MT today

..with the 'boldest' educators in New Mexico!!

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About my amazing Aunt Barb

"She dedicated her life to making those in it happy. She had a laugh that made everyone around her laugh along with her. Barb wasn't afraid to laugh at herself."

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have you had your neolibral arts today?

Clipped from www.wired.com

7 Essential Skills You Didn't Learn in College

Statistical Literacy Making sense of today’s data-driven world. 2. Post-State Diplomacy Power and politics, sans government. 3. Remix Culture Samples, mashups, and mixes. 4. Applied Cognition The neuroscience you need. 5. Writing for New Forms Self-expression in 140 characters. 6. Waste Studies Understanding end-to-end economics. 7. Domestic Tech How to use the world as your lab.

It’s the 21st century. Knowing how to read a novel, craft an essay, and derive the slope of a tangent isn’t enough anymore. You need to know how to swim through the data deluge, optimize your prose for Twitter, and expose statistics that lie. In the following pages, you’ll find our updated core curriculum, which fills in the gaps of your 20th-century education with the tools you need now. Call it the neoliberal arts: higher learning for highly evolved humans.

It’s the 21st century. Knowing how to read a novel, craft an essay, and derive the slope of a tangent isn’t enough anymore. You need to know how to swim through the data deluge, optimize your prose for Twitter, and expose statistics that lie. In the following pages, you’ll find our updated core curriculum, which fills in the gaps of your 20th-century education with the tools you need now. Call it the neoliberal arts: higher learning for highly evolved humans.Read more at www.wired.com

 

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@squirrellearns So I attempted your very clever #jbotl collaborative whiteboarding strategy with Google Drawings tonight in our Adobe Connect classroom. Students in labs had trouble with browsers allowing the sidebar chat and drawing tools. Sent 4 teams off to their own boards.. we ended up with a nice list of 'challenges to synchronous collaboration' I learned to scale back number of boards (made sharing more complicated) and plan around browser issues. Students were engaged by the experiment. Will definitely try again ~ kudos for your inspiration! http://amplify.com/u/e1cl

Hope you can join @desertjul and I Friday to talk about @Yammer and PLCs :) #nmedtech

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Yay! RETA/NMSU included @edutopia resources for developing online teaching practice! #yam

Our very own @retazens were found by @tektrekker in GLEF's @edutopia! Just in time to promote RETA short courses for online teaching! :) http://reta.nmsu.edu/

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Lifehacker tips for establishing and maintaining your online identity

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Duke uses Ustream + Facebook to 'build community and allow distant family & friends to partake in ed milestones'

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from @tomkrieglstein's Increased Engagement Through Bizarre College Club on 'the long tail of student interests'

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Google Sites and Amplify fill important toolkit functions for online UNIV 150

When I started planning to teach 150 online, I immediately started thinking about my teaching toolkit. It was a very easy decision to use Google Apps for our collaboration suite (and IM tool) but I struggled for a while to determine what my aggregators would be. Needs included wiki and blog which could be shared in the easiest way possible (not requiring another account) RSS out and awesome clipping abilities. And so I'm using Google Sites and Amplify. So far, so good. :)

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New college students face new credit rules, tips from Tulsa World for talking to your kids about credit

Read more from this Tulsa World article at http://www.tulsaworld.com

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Massive privacy settings overhaul leads to amazing discoveries and a feeling of personal/professional grokdom. http://amplify.com/u/8xyv

Ultimate Times Square 4

Ultimate Times Square 4
Originally uploaded by Tony Shi, NY-NJ

Just feeling the Flickr love this morning.

Excitement about #nmste10

Just came home from the Tech Happy Hour of the #nmste10 virtual conference.

Great stuff!

Course Hero update

Regarding my last post - I wanted to report that after I filed my copyright infringement request on Nov. 11 to Course Hero (using the instructions provided on their site) they took down my paper.

Yay!

I have communicated this to people at my institution who are working on the work of others affected. :)

Now, go find something you have online that you haven't licensed through Creative Commons and go license it!