Category Archives: Learning Communities
Who Needs Gamification?! Student-Centered Lesson Design Using Just Your LMS
2011 brought us the buzzword craze of “gamification” in education, or the quest to make learning online more like a video game. Inspired by FourSquare‘s achievement badges as a way of motivating users to check in to location-based services and … Continue reading
Commons in a Box: Open Academic Collaboration for Higher Ed.
As long as I’ve been interested in WordPress for Education, CUNY Commons has stood as the example of what’s possible when you mash up WordPress, WPMU, BuddyPress, and MediaWiki with some special, custom goodness. Built on open source tools, it … Continue reading
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50 Great Ways to Grow Your Personal Learning Network
This is a great article from OnlineCollege.org that gives detailed directions on how to start a Personal Learning Network. Since my own posts on PLNs resonated with so many, I wanted to pass this on: Through social networks, email, video, … Continue reading
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Google Plus Puts the Social in Learning with Google Apps for Education
With the news that Google Apps for Education will be integrated with Google+ in a few days, it’s time to start thinking about how social media and collaboration can be a reality for schools.
Posted in EdTech, Featured, Free Apps, Learning Communities, TeacherHax
Tagged classroom 2.0, Edmodo, edtech, education, facebook, google, Google App, Learning, Schoology, social learning, Social media, SocialCast, teaching, Yammer
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Secure Your Social Identity Across All Sites with NameChk.com
If you are trying to create a branded online identity, it helps to have a consistent username across all of the major sites. With NameChk.com, you can search once and see if your favorite username is available on 159 different … Continue reading
Cultivate Your Personal Learning Network Part II: Showing What You Know
In Cultivate Your Personal Learning Network Part I, you learned to find and organize information that will teach you, challenge your ideas, and help you stay on top of interesting new developments in your areas of interest. The second part of … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Featured, Learning Communities, TeacherHax
Tagged Diigo, education, Electronic portfolio, eportfolio, facebook, Google Reader, Learning, LinkedIn, Personal Learning Network, teaching
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The ‘Angry Birds’ Guide to Online Lesson Design
(This post is part of a series called “The Connected Class Community”). A popular reason for exploring gamification in online learning is because we want to increase student engagement with the content. Games are nothing if not engaging, and the … Continue reading
"The Golden Apple": Showing Students that Their Learning Matters
(This post is part of a series called “The Connected Class Community”). The Golden Apple is the most cryptic and strange of all of these ingredients. Not surprisingly, it’s also difficult to explain. I think the idea will make sense … Continue reading
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Tagged Apple, blackboard, canvas, edtech, education, Educators, Golden apple, high school, instructional design, instructure, iPad, lms, Middle school, moodle, online, online learning, Student
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"The Commons": The Importance of Talking Out of Turn
(This post is part of a series called “The Connected Class Community”). One essential part of human communities has always been a central meeting place– a location where the community comes to engage in conversations that are bigger than one-on-one … Continue reading
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Tagged Edmodo, facebook, Facebook features, Salesforce Chatter, Social network, Social network service, teacher, twitter
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"The Library": Surrounding Students with a Wealth of Information
(This post is part of a series on online learning communities called “The Connected Class Community”). The purpose of these posts is to explore the vital components of an online learning community using abstract, timeless qualities. For most of human … Continue reading
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Tagged google notebook, Knowledge base, Library, Multimedia
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