About Me
Michael Edwards is an Instructional Designer for the Center for Distance Education at Rhodes State College.This blog contains his thoughts on various elearning resources, pedagogy, technology, and web 2.0 as well as feeds from some of his favorite resources.
Category Archives: elearning
Collaboration 101: 21st Century Learning Management /OETC2010
Kimberly Brueck (Instructional Technologist), Cindy Brown (Associate Principle), and Craig McKendry (Math Teacher) from Green High School presented on using blended learning to encourage professional development and innovative teaching. Although geared towards K-12 I decided to attend anyway in hopes of more universally helpful principles and tips.
(Unfortunately the presentation was much more of a tour [...]
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Dan Pink on human motivation, creativity
Discussion question: How could these ideas about intrinsic motivation vs. extrinsic motivation inform the way we teach courses?
Upcoming Event: Faculty Professional Development
I and a guest, Corinne Hoisington of Central Virginia Community College, are presenting this week to the Rhodes State faculty on technological tools they can use to enhance their classes and engage their students. Details below:
Thursday, Sept 17, 2009
Tech Lab, Rooms 111 & 129
Rhodes State College
Session 1: 9:00AM-NOON
Lunch: Noon-1:00PM (Pizza in TL Lobby)
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Posted in elearning Tagged Blended Learning, online, Presentation, Professional Development, Web 2.0, web20 1 Comment
Google Wave: The Future of Online Collaboration
This is cutting edge, breaking news in web products. Google announced Wave yesterday.
General information
http://wave.google.com/help/wave/about.html
In a way, it’s a combination of several familiar forms of communication, including:
Email
Discussion Boards
Wiki
Instant Messaging
Text Document
Image sharing, files, etc.
You can have interactive conversations, threaded discussion, and “living documents” all at once. It’s a mashup of email, discussions, wiki, blogging, everything in real [...]
Sloan-C: Designing for a Blended Community of Inquiry
Designing for a Blended Community of Inquiry
Karen Swan introduced Norm Vaughan (Mount Royal College) as he delivered an interactive workshop about blended learning across two sessions divided by a break.
Sloan-C: Great Ideas series
Great Ideas series
A series of short (10 minute) presentations of ideas and tools for blended learning.
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Sloan-C: Blending With Purpose
Blending With Purpose
Anthony “Tony” G. Picciano facilitated a panel that included George Otte (City University of New York), Karen Vignare (Michigan State University) and Tony himself.
Before the panel format began, Tony talked a bit about the emergence of blended/hybrid courses over the past 6 or 7 years. Tony had put together a multimodal model of [...]
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Sloan-C: Welcome & Introductions
Sloan-C Blended Workshop
Mary Niemiec kicked things off at the 2009 Sloan-C Blended Workshop by speaking a bit about the evolution of blended learning. “When we first started it was an invited 30 people. Blended learning wasn’t well defined (hybrid? tech-advanced?).”
“It took almost two years to agree on a common definition that seems to be permeating [...]
Attending: Sloan-C Workshop on Blended Learning
I will be attending the Sloan-C Workshop on Blended Learning and Higher Education this weekend hosted by the University of Illinois at Chicago in Lisle, Illinois.
You can find more information on the conference page, but during the event I will be:
Blogging from this elearning blog.
Tweeting from my twitter account, http://twitter.com/medwardsrhodes.
Recording video on my Flip Mino [...]
Attending: Quality Matters training