I’m enjoying this chapter introducing “blended learning,” though as with just about everything educational I’ve ever read, parts of it could be condensed and simplified 🙂 It notes that “Although fully online learning has become well established in higher education, many institutions appear to be struggling with conceptualizing and implementing blended learning.”   I’m not […]
February 25, 2015
… not yet. Here’s a “this person might have issues with math” situation: Â We’re supposed to figure out how long it will take Forrest Gump to mow a football field with a 30-inch wide mower; field 120 yards by 160 feet, going 4 mph. Converted 120 yards to 40 feet… fixed that… Draw the field? […]
February 23, 2015
Yes, I’m a glutton for … well, it’s not punishment exactly. Â I was perusing Moodle and Canvas and D2L/Brighspace thinking “what is happening as far as their open courses?” Â Sunday afternoon and bang-0! Â Monday morning this “Blended Courses” course would be happening. Â Welp, I do a whole lot better with structure and deadlines […]
February 22, 2015
People often preach that even if we’re never going to use math in real life, learning it teaches problem solving and analytical thinking. Â HOwever, almost nobody ever goes on to, say, give an example of that thinking that would be useful, which in my mind classifies it as a platitude. I’m going to try […]
February 22, 2015
Not a particularly *focused* day… but I have most of my proposal for the Faculty Summer Institute outlined. Â I’ll flesh out a few things before I send it if I have time. Â My plan is to cram into 50 minutes an overview of OER, some of the places to go to search for […]
February 20, 2015
I suspect this is really a Microsoft issue, since Microsoft doesn’t care for FLash, but Livescribe should understand that. I had this wild fantasy of being able to listen to some of my pencasts of pithy recitations of stuff I want to remember. Forget the first five things I tried, or that no, despite hints […]
February 19, 2015
… doing pushups in the snow. Â Three below this morning so I took the bus, which was not crowded. Â I don’t know; maybe people find rides or don’t go places when it’s this cold? Â Or maybe Thursday just is a lighter travel day (it’s a lighter course day at Parkland). Got this in […]
February 25, 2015
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