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Tips, Tricks, and Lifehacks for Online Educators

In Response to Tom Whitby’s The What and Why of a Professional Learning Network, and Paul Moss’ Why Learning Through Social Networks Is The Future.

The great thing about Personal Learning Networks is that you form a breezy, fluid relationship with people you respect and admire, people you...

[Question from a colleague] _It appears that OpenClass has the same mission as Canvas –  OpenClass: “disrupt technology for education”, Canvas:  “disrupting the Learning Management System (LMS) market.” Does this new partnership introduce any concerns about Canvas’ future. Blackboard has to change...

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 the Learning Loop is the “Outputs” stage. Here you will...

John Ward, my High School Math Teacher
John Ward, RIP

 

This post discusses how to build your own Personal (or Professional) Learning Network. Instead of starting by telling you which tools to use, I want to talk about why you would do this in the first place.…

This is a photo of my high school math teacher, Coach John Wa...