Posted by Kristin Payne on 5/22/2009 9:42 AM
Here's an interesting post on a blog I've recently discovered, called
Monday Dots
. The guy (
Jeff Monday
) responsible for the blog believes that anything can be explained by
using dots
. He also is interested in educational technology and has created a video (using dots, of course) about a new learning paradigm — student generated content.
The jist of the video (it's a bit of a long one — just over eleven minutes) is that it's easy for professors to feel overwhelmed by the
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Posted by druth001 on 5/21/2009 12:45 PM
Next week the three of us (Ryan, Kristin, and myself) go to JAM - the Jenzabar Annual Meeting. Jenzabar is the company who makes the software that runs MyLutherNet (MLN). We're hoping that in this conference will give us great insight into how we can make MLN more usable and friendly for students, faculty and staff.
So, in the spirit of collaboration, tell us what you would like to see happen with MLN! What is confusing about it? How do you use it? How would you like to use it?
Posted by Mary Hess on 5/21/2009 11:40 AM
Threshold Magazine (which is part of
Cable in the Classroom) has a recent issue out that is devoted to
new media literacies and learning in a participatory culture. Much of it was written in conjunction with the
New Media Literacies Project at MIT, which is
Henry Jenkins' old haunt. While the articles are focused primarily on the K-12 context, they're pertinent to higher ed as well.
A previous issue of this same journal has a number of interesting pieces related to learning online.
Posted by ldt on 5/20/2009 1:11 PM
If you are thinking of being a guest author for our blog,
Free Range Learning
, here are a few submission guidelines to help you with your writing.
What's the Blog's Purpose?
To share ideas about design and technology for learning
Who's My Audience?
The blog aims to serve anyone interested in learning and technology — this includes faculty and students, as well as staff. Depending on the growth of the blog, this may also include people outside the Luther Seminary community.
What Should I Write
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Posted by Ryan Torma on 5/20/2009 10:51 AM
I've been playing around with
Skimmer
- a free desktop application that collects the activity of your, facebook, twitter, flickr, youTube, and blogger accounts and lets you both read and post to each of them from one handy location.
Skimmer was developed by a Minneapolis ad agency,
Fallon
with the help of
Sierra-Bravo
, a Twin Cities web development company. Fallon wanted a way to share what their employees were thinking about, so they developed skimmer, which in Fallon's case allows their
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Posted by Ryan Torma on 5/14/2009 2:17 PM
We are excited to announce the creation of Free Range Learning a blog which explores ideas around design and technology for use in learning.
Wait a minute, you might say, if this blog is new, how come there are posts that go back months? Free Range Learning is a relaunch of an earlier blog The Learning Professor. While many good things were happening before, we wanted to expand the conversation to include students, staff, faculty, and anyone else who might be interested, so we needed a new name and
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Posted by druth001 on 5/14/2009 7:58 AM
Storytelling, the backbone of so many world cultures (as well as Scripture), is alive and well thanks to new technology: the internet.
The internet, and more specifically Web 2.0 technologies, has opened up collaborative storytelling that is limited only by the number of collaborators. In
Educause Review
, Bryan Alexander and Alan Levine discuss how
Web 2.0 technologies make it easy and accessible
for nearly anyone to blog, comment, review, teach and learn together. The stories that are told are
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Posted by ldt on 5/13/2009 1:38 PM
The
Free Range Learning
blog welcomes contributions, posts, and feedback on topics related to design and technology for learning. It is hosted by Learning Design & Technology at
Luther Seminary
.
If you have questions or ideas, please contact
online@luthersem.edu
.
Author Bios
Ryan Torma
- Before joining Luther Seminary in 2008, Ryan spent more than 10 years working (at times simultaneously) in congregations, multi-media curriculum design, and photography. He is active in the international
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Posted by Mary Hess on 5/1/2009 11:59 AM
Here's
a really interesting study
that compared teaching practices across three fields: clergy preparation, clinical psychology, and education. The authors write, in particular, about practices of representation, decomposition, and approximation.
Although we have presented them separately, the concepts in this framework—representation, decomposition, and approximation—clearly overlap and underscore each other. For example, every approximation engages students in some element or version
…
Posted by Mary Hess on 4/22/2009 6:38 AM
Here's a great, brief, look at
how to teach writing in courses of any size and content.
