A poster on CLMOOC 2015 made with free tool canva.com
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A poster on CLMOOC 2015 made with free tool canva.com
It is the map of Twitter community, created using social network analysis. Created with NodeXL
What’s the first thing you usually do when you enter a room of folks with some familiar and unfamiliar faces—you introduce yourself, right? So let’s unravel “the introduction” to dive into the Connected Learning principle of equity. The theme this week is Unmaking Introductions. Let’s consider the ways we name, present, and represent ourselves and the boundaries or memberships those introductions create. How do we name ourselves in different contexts—personally? professionally? online? What happens when those contexts converge? How might we take apart our introductions to answer some of these questions? What will happen when we put them back together… Read more »
I’ve been using free CMap tools (http://cmap.ihmc.us/) for nearly 10 years to communicate strategies for helping kids in high poverty areas get extra help to move through school and into jobs and careers. CMaps are one of a growing number of free concept mapping platforms, so don’t be limited by this. A CMap has layers of information. So while the first layer might have a simple diagram.The maps each node points to may get more and more complex as people dig deeper. This spring, to help people see the variety of maps I’ve created, I launched a web page, showing… Read more »
Knights Code of Honor You are a knight, a warrior. You are a defender and a protector of your community members and yourself. Knights have a system of values that include traits of honor, loyalty, respect, courtesy, and courage. It is time for you to define your own CODE OF HONOR. How will you conduct yourself in the online communities of the world? 1. Create a Google doc that is YOUR personal code of honor for digital life. 2. Write it from your perspective (“I will…”). 3. Be sure to address: Privacy: Respecting the privacy of others online. Self-Expression and… Read more »
I love the whole maker movement and have been thinking through ways to make it easier for more folks to get involved with it, especially in schools. One idea that’s gotten a lot of traction is maker spaces. There are some great resources for setting up a school maker space like Makerspace Play book from Maker Ed and this article from Edutopia. Maker ed activities vary wildly from digital activities like app creation or video making that require computers to specialized activities like 3D printing or robotics to more everyday making such as crafts, cooking, or design. While some environments… Read more »
I created this graphic to show students my thinking when I created a Zeega. They can use it to then plan their own digital story using any digital storytelling tool.
I have created this Blendspace ‘lesson plan’ as a suggestion for those in #CLMOOC right now to collaborating on whatever they wish to feedforward into the near, mid, and far term. Embedded here are directions and resources for creating Zeegas. Even better I have also made this a collaborative space. Very recently, Blendspace was bought and folded into Wikispaces and TES. Part of that deal made the collaborative part of Blendspace free! Now you can edit and fix and renew and remix and add to the Zeega project below by using this link: https://www.blendspace.com/lessons/VdVdQa4Uu95epg/collab/TYAEmuVwjcMVctXxvoJSlTpknmiBhREs/register What the addition of Blendspace and… Read more »
If you were to look closely around your classroom, we suspect you’d find more than a few budding graphic novelist hard at work on a comic strip. Why not think of comics as a literary experience? There are plenty of online webcomic makers (see one list below under Tutorials), emerging apps for mobile devices, and the old-fashioned but tried-and-true technology of paper and pencil. The beauty of comic making is that it combines the power of the narrative with the impact of the visual. Inference is a key component to composing a comic, as well. Scott McCloud’s work on comics… Read more »
Use this site to generate your own “error message” image. Discovered this via @sensor63 and Victoria Siemer’s work here: http://t.co/rqgDdEZH0n. I would recommend that you 1. Go to Google and search images for “Error messages”. 2. Go to Atom Smasher here: http://atom.smasher.org/error/ 3. Find a worthwhile error message and adapt it on Atom Smasher’s site. 4. Save the image by right clicking and “Save Image As”. Give it a name, save it, and then use it in blog posts, G+ posts, twitter pix, or create your very own badge of error. 5. Also look at Victoria Siemer’s work to get… Read more »