It’s about the storytelling and the personal connections that we should all be trying to make, and letting technology amplify what we do as educators, not serve as an extra barrier between us and students.
Math Rap Battle Royale | The Tech Savvy Educator
Not that I would ever think of rapping(read the post), but this last paragraph has been ringing in my head.
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Create an introductory post, video, podcast, slideshow, etc., of yourself. Tell us a little bit about yourself – perhaps, where you’re from, what you do, or what you want to be when you grow up – and let us know what you’d like to gain from #etmooc? A few paragraphs of text, or preferably, a form of visual or auditory media lasting between 30 seconds and 2 minutes is ideal. These are very rough guidelines – feel free to break every one of them if you wish.
from: #ETMOOC | A MOOC about educational technology & media – Coming January 2013
I recorded this with Quicktime thinking I could just trim without any edits, turned out I wanted to edit a wee bit so opened in in Screenflow to do a zoom or two. Would have just recorded into screenflow if I had known.
MOOC! by AJC1 Attribution-ShareAlike License
A bit before Christmas I signed up for #ETMOOC:
#etmooc, an open, online experience that is designed to facilitate & nurture conversations around the thoughtful integration of educational technology & media in teaching and learning.
from: Introduction to #etmooc | #ETMOOC
A massive open online course (MOOC) is a type of online course aimed at large-scale participation and open access via the web. MOOCs are a recent development in the area of distance education, and a progression of the kind of open education ideals suggested by open educational resources.
Though the design of and participation in a MOOC may be similar to college or university courses, MOOCs typically do not offer credits awarded to paying students at schools. However, assessment of learning may be done for certification.
from: Massive open online course – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I at least started a few mooc-like and other online learning things last year:
I found it quite difficult to stick to these ‘courses. ds106 and edtechcc being the easiest to hang in due to the social elements. The MechanicalMooc did have social stuff hooked up but just keeping up with the lectures and exercises took up more time than I had.
I was releaved to see this tweet from the course organiser:
@camaxwell @johnjohnston There are different ways to participate – even if you want to dip in once in a while, feel free to register.
—Alec Couros (@courosa) December 17, 2012
Apart from the Topics & Schedule it looks like #etmooc with have a few valuable experiences:
Hopefully I’ve fill in the form correctly and this post will get pulled into the ETMOOC Blog Hub | everything everyone publishes about ETMOOC. Next up is creating an introduction post:
Create an introductory post, video, podcast, slideshow, etc., of yourself. Tell us a little bit about yourself – perhaps, where you’re from, what you do, or what you want to be when you grow up – and let us know what you’d like to gain from #etmooc?
and the first #etmooc T0S1: Welcome & Orientation on Blackboard Collaborate. Not sure how that is going to work in with my time and work schedule, I hope they are recorded.
Eslabones / Links — [EXPLORE] by Juan R. Martos
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Recent spotted mostly from google reader:
making it possible to execute javascript code at the in-game command prompt and load and run player-written scripts. It strikes me that making Minecraft scriptable (via javascript) could only be a good thing because it opens up modding and scripting to a whole bunch of kids who already know javascript but who find the existing modding cycle of editing/compiling/reobfuscating/rejarring downright daunting – writing a minecraft mod is still something of a black art. Anything that makes modding easier can only be good
stuff. It also might be a way to getting Minecraft loving pupils thinking about coding. I wonder if Alan O’Donohoe knows about this.
Traffic, ship horns and fireworks
Broomhill, Glasgow, Scotland
This audio file was orginally posted to AudioBoo(m) with the mobile app. It has been downloaded and posted here since audioboom no longer supports free accounts.
I’ve not posted much here recently, I have made a few posts over at my DS106 blog including in December:
Mostly playing around with gifs for the ds106 GIFfest which leads to messing about with JavaScript, flickr & freesound.org.
I had a way of generation a list of images and audio found with the same search word. I’ve now improved this to make a image/audio slide show like the one below. The new interface is rough as I’ve just added a button to get an iframe code that produces something like the one below.
Getting all the audio to play has been a bit messy, but it works for me in Safari, FF & Chrome on my mac and FF and IE9 on windows. Probably of little use to most folk as wordpress blogs, for one, usually do not allow iFrames.
Private by kh1234567890
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In 1999, Scott McNealy, then the CEO of Sun Microsystems, famously observed that consumer privacy issues were a “red herring”. “You have zero privacy anyway,” he said. “Get over it.”
and
…so perhaps the rule to live by is this: don’t put anything in an email that you wouldn’t put on a postcard.
from: Lessons the tech world learned in 2012 | Technology | The Observer
In 1999!
Pretty much what I usually tell pupils: If you would not have it on your t-shirt don’t put it online.
As i was browsing my feeds this morning I read a post on the register that was over my head, AWS’ gift to sysadmins: a cloudy command line • The Register at the end of the article I notice a link to In the Beginning was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson. I’d read this a few years ago but thought I’d like another look so followed the link only to find:
The article, a plain text file was zipped. I am using an iPad, I didn’t want to read it enough to move to a computer so this is what I did.
In the Beginning was the Command Line is an interesting read although it was written in 1999, an update/responce by Garrett Birke The Command Line In 2004 is good too, I guess another update in light of mobile computing would further explore Mr. Birke’s final question:
So I bought a Powerbook with OS X on it. And while an excellent solution, this is certainly not the only solution. A Windows 2000 setup on a Dell Inspiron laptop would be a fine second choice. And though there are many out there who have developed a comfortable Linux system for themselves, I believe that we should all be judged by the truest measure of the value of any personal computer: How much does it help us accomplish our tasks?
This post was written on an iPad in Texttastic, using a bookmarklet to grab links from Safari, native iOS screengrabbing, images cropped in the Photos app, resize and uploade with Pythonista. The post will be saved to dropbox when it syncs with my mac it will be posted to the blog via AppleScript. Most of this stuff helps get things done but some is just fun;)
1Well it seems that I was quite mistaken about the need for iCab. not that it is not a useful app. I switched to it when assumed that I could not open zip or sit files in Safari. I should have clicked the link:
That would have saved a step.
It looks like the new Flickr app arrived at the right time, I’ve just read New Instagram Terms of Service on Daring Fireball.
I’ve always been happy paying for Flickr and other services. Obviously we like free services but if someone is making that service they deserved to get paid in some way. I’d prefer to pay them directly rather than pay by reading adverts most of the time.
A walk on a busy Glasgow.
Central, Glasgow, Scotland
This audio file was orginally posted to AudioBoo(m) with the mobile app. It has been downloaded and posted here since audioboom no longer supports free accounts.
