Archiving the Feed: August 2009 Twitter Posts by wisepedagogy

Posted in Uncategorized on February 2nd, 2010 by Anne McKinney – Be the first to comment
cc-licensed photo, end of summer, via Flickr by NicDC

cc-licensed photo, end of summer, via Flickr by NicDC

I am in the process of archiving the wisepedagogy Twitter announcements from past months. Links have been expanded to show the entire URL rather than bit.ly shorthand. Since these tweets began in August, this brings us up to date for 2009. Hooray!

August 2009 Twitter Posts by wisepedagogy:

Archiving the Feed: September 2009 Twitter Posts by wisepedagogy

Posted in Articles, Collaboration, Course Activities, Fun Miscellany, Learning Aids, Library & Info Science, News in Online Education, Pedagogical Theory, Podcasting, Social Networking, Synchronous Learning, Time Management, Video, Visual Aids, Web Tools on February 2nd, 2010 by Anne McKinney – Be the first to comment
cc-licensed photo, Sprinkles, M&Ms and Chocolate Crunch, via Flickr by Sister72

cc-licensed photo, Sprinkles, M&Ms and Chocolate Crunch, via Flickr by Sister72

I am in the process of archiving the wisepedagogy Twitter announcements from past months. Links have been expanded to show the entire URL rather than bit.ly shorthand.

September 2009 Twitter Posts by wisepedagogy:

I have left out a few tweets that related to dated events, such as webinars and calls for participation. I’m guessing that the people who would read this archive would be most interested in resources that still have a chance of being available.

Archiving the Feed: October 2009 Twitter Posts by wisepedagogy

Posted in Articles, Collaboration, Course Activities, Fun Miscellany, Learning Aids, Library & Info Science, News in Online Education, Pedagogical Theory, Podcasting, Social Networking, Synchronous Learning, Time Management, Video, Visual Aids, Web Tools on February 1st, 2010 by Anne McKinney – Be the first to comment
cc-licensed photo, P1060127, via Flickr by jessicareeder

cc-licensed photo, P1060127, via Flickr by jessicareeder

I am in the process of archiving the wisepedagogy Twitter announcements from past months. Links have been expanded to show the entire URL rather than bit.ly shorthand.

October 2009 Twitter Posts by wisepedagogy:

Archiving the Feed: November 2009 Twitter Posts by wisepedagogy

Posted in Articles, Collaboration, Course Activities, Fun Miscellany, Learning Aids, Library & Info Science, News in Online Education, Pedagogical Theory, Podcasting, Social Networking, Synchronous Learning, Time Management, Video, Visual Aids, Web Tools on February 1st, 2010 by Anne McKinney – Be the first to comment
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cc-licensed photo, DSC00948, via Flickr by godutchbaby

I am in the process of archiving the wisepedagogy Twitter announcements from past months. Links have been expanded to show the entire URL rather than bit.ly shorthand.

November 2009 Twitter Posts by wisepedagogy:

Archiving the Feed: December 2009 Twitter Posts by wisepedagogy

Posted in Articles, Collaboration, Course Activities, Fun Miscellany, Learning Aids, Library & Info Science, News in Online Education, Pedagogical Theory, Podcasting, Social Networking, Synchronous Learning, Time Management, Uncategorized, Video, Visual Aids, Web Tools on February 1st, 2010 by Anne McKinney – Be the first to comment
cc-licensed photo, Lunch Time! via Flickr by AR Nature Gal

cc-licensed photo, Lunch Time! via Flickr by AR Nature Gal

I am in the process of archiving the wisepedagogy Twitter announcements from past months. Links have been expanded to show the entire URL rather than bit.ly shorthand.

December 2009 Twitter Posts by wisepedagogy:

Archiving the Feed: January 2010 Twitter posts by wisepedagogy

Posted in Articles, Collaboration, Course Activities, Learning Aids, Library & Info Science, News in Online Education, Pedagogical Theory, Social Networking, Synchronous Learning, Time Management, Uncategorized, Video, Visual Aids, Web Tools on February 1st, 2010 by Anne McKinney – Be the first to comment
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cc-licensed photo, Freezer Meals, via Flickr by armigeress

Thanks to Twitter I’ve been able to share a plethora of announcements about new e-learning technologies and pedagogical research studies, all in a very quick, easy manner. No thanks to Twitter, however, I’ve been announcing fewer of these announcements on this blog.

I’m hoping to reverse this trend by posting summaries of my Twitter updates at least on a monthly basis, if not more frequently. In the meantime, I’ll archive what I can in a few posts, beginning with January. Links have been expanded to show the entire URL rather than bit.ly shorthand.

January Twitter Posts by wisepedagogy:

Schedule for this year’s WISE Pedagogy Workshop at ALISE: Keys to Successful Online Collaboration

Posted in Collaboration, Library & Info Science, News in Online Education, Pedagogical Theory, Social Networking, Time Management, Web Tools on December 22nd, 2009 by Anne McKinney – Be the first to comment
CC licensed photo, Digitage Web 2.0 via Flickr by ocean.flynn

CC licensed photo, "Digitage Web 2.0" via Flickr by ocean.flynn

Will you be in Boston next month at the annual conference for the Association for Library & Information Science Education (ALISE)? We will explore practices for online collaborative learning through presentations and breakout discussions on Tuesday, January 12, 2010, 9:00 am – 12:30 pm. Here’s the schedule:


Tuesday, January 12, 2010 – Stanbro Room, Boston Park Plaza Hotel

9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Keys to Successful Online Collaboration: WISE Pedagogy Workshop

WISE (Web-Based Information Science Education) Consortium and ALISE Distance Education SIG

This workshop is open to all interested conference attendees, especially doctoral students. Activities will address effective practices for collaboration in LIS online education through a participatory series of rotating stations, discussing topics in breakout sessions and interacting directly with presenters.

9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.

Welcome and Overview of Best Practices in Online Education

This introduction to the workshop will recognize ALISE Award recipients for WISE Faculty of the Year 2009 and discussion of their best practices. Bruce Kingma (Syracuse University); Linda C. Smith and Anne McKinney (University of Illinois)


9:30 a.m. – 11:20 a.m.

Presentations and Breakout Groups

Presenters and breakout leaders will be stationed around the room. Workshop participants may plan to spend 15-20 minutes at each station. There will be a ten-minute break from 10:10 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.

Station #1: Teaching Collaboratively Online through the Prism of Course Content

Presentation provides an overview of LIS online collaborative teaching: theoretical, conceptual, technical, procedural, and literary strategies. Carol Gordon and Sung Un Kim (Rutgers University)

Station #2: Best Practices in the Pedagogical Design and Development of Full-Credit Short Courses

Presentation offers a process-oriented approach to collaborative teaching of a full-credit short course, Online Graphic Novels and Comics, from development to evaluation. Elizabeth Figa and Janet R. Macpherson (University of North Texas)

Station #3: Team Teaching as Online Collaboration

Presentation on co-teaching at a distance: How instructors communicate for development and teaching of online courses when they are not co-located. Lisa Hinchliffe and Melissa Wong (University of Illinois)

Station #4: Fitting Collaborative Activities Into the LIS Curriculum

Breakout discussion on implementation of student collaborative projects in LIS courses. When is collaboration a more effective learning method than individual assignments? Facilitator: Debbie Faires (San Jose State University)

Station #5: Working the Group Work

Breakout discussion of successful strategies for managing student group project assignments. Facilitator: Chip Bruce (University of Illinois)

11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Conclusion

Discussion of the presentations and breakout sessions and general closure of the workshop: what is the future of online collaboration? Facilitator: Rae-Anne Montague (University of Illinois)

See you in January! In the meantime, have a happy new year!

Cloud Computing for Online Instructors

Posted in Collaboration, Pedagogical Theory, Web Tools on November 20th, 2009 by Anne McKinney – Be the first to comment

This week I attended an online conference, Clouds on the Horizon, devoted to the subject of cloud computing for online teaching and learning. If you are unfamiliar with the concept of cloud computing, Common Craft has recently produced a new video on the topic for their Plain English series.

Thanks to cloud computing, online learners have a wide variety of web 2.0 tools they can use to learn, create, collaborate, and share their work with others. This often goes beyond the limitations of learning management systems, because learning is extended beyond the traditional scope of the classroom: they can use media not supported by the learning management system, work faster or slower than the average course schedule, and interact with an audience much larger than any course could support.

This raises a question about the way we are thinking education: are universities still serving students in this era to take advantage of changes to the educational matrix? Alan Collins and Richard Halverson, in a lecture last month at the University of Illinois, argued that schools are fighting a losing battle because of incompatibilities between the educational system as it was designed in the 1800s and today’s technology:  people are taking education out of schools and using online resources and forums to advance their passions and career goals (Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology). In other words, students can often learn more, and faster, from participating in web forums with an international community of career professionals than they have been learning from one instructor at their school.

We are currently living in an age when our sociocultural network is changing and adapting, not just because people are using the internet but because of the way they are using the internet. Anyone and everyone is potentially an audience and a collaborator. Knowledge is being shared faster with the entire world as its audience. Traditional online courses, however, are restricted to a small number of people who are paying to learn from one instructor behind a password-protected wall. Open-source education, on the other hand, advocates sharing information with all the world. One of the concepts Curtis Bonk hammers out in The World is Open is that when education is made available to everyone, “WE-ALL-LEARN” (Bonk).

This can sound terrifically inspiring (and as I write about it for a publicly viewable blog in “the cloud”). Coming down from the cloud, however, one might wonder how so much free knowledge can maintain its educational integrity and, simultaneously, financial sustainability. What about the instructors who have been sharing their knowledge for a living, or anyone else employed by a university, for that matter?

Richard Katz, VP of Educause, argued in his keynote presentation for Clouds on the Horizon that universities can’t completely advocate learning entirely from the cloud because there is too much “truthiness” masquerading as factual information; the wider audience of web 2.0, in other words, makes it harder for students to separate sources with academic integrity from just anyone who feels like writing whatever and posting it online.

How, then, can instructors best make use of cloud computing? By all means, it can’t be a bad idea for instructors to make use of web 2.0 resources when they can help students learn the course topic and prepare for their lives beyond the classroom. And, as most of them are already using many of these technologies, their use in online teaching can help increase communication and participation among those students. One of the other points Katz stressed in his keynote, however, is that instructors should not “confuse a tool with a goal”: i.e., getting students to use technology is not the same as getting them to learn with technology; exercises still need to be structured around solid pedagogical concepts and learning objectives.

The relationship between cloud computing and education remains an issue that may need to be considered over time as technology continues to grow and evolve. As online instructors, are we making the best use of the technology at our disposal, and is it helping our students prepare for their futures as well as we could hope? How does it compare with any learning (or erroneous learning) they may be picking up outside of class from other web 2.0 sources? Will universities need to change the way we present and teach information, and if so, how?

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Free Webinars During National Distance Learning Week: November 9-13

Posted in News in Online Education, Synchronous Learning on November 6th, 2009 by Anne McKinney – Be the first to comment

Beginning Monday, online programs and schools across the United States will celebrate National Distance Learning Week. The United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA), which is sponsoring this celebration, will host several free webinars on e-learning topics throughout the week.

Some of the topics will include:

  • Blended Learning
  • Military/Government
  • Public Policy
  • Mobile Learning
  • Global Education
  • Game-based Learning

To sign up for a webinar, or for more information, go to http://www.ndlw.org/.

WISE Pedagogy Workshop 2010: Keys to Successful Online Collaboration

Posted in Collaboration, Library & Info Science, News in Online Education, Synchronous Learning on November 5th, 2009 by Anne McKinney – Be the first to comment

The WISE (Web-Based Information Science Education) Consortium will offer its sixth annual pre-conference workshop addressing best practices in distance education at the January 2010 conference for the Association for Library & Information Science Education (ALISE) in Boston.

This workshop will be open to all interested conference attendees, especially doctoral students and new online instructors. All attendees will have an opportunity to learn more about the pedagogy of online collaboration in the context of library and information science education.

Keys to Successful Online Collaboration will be highly participatory and feature rotating stations of presentations and breakout discussion groups. Workshop topics will address pedagogical issues in the use of collaborative learning activities in online courses:

  1. Demonstration of specific collaborative technological tools (i.e., wikis, blogs, social media networks, synchronous communication software, file sharing tools, etc.)
  2. Presentation of effective pedagogical practices for facilitating online collaborative activities
  3. Breakout discussion on implementation of collaborative learning goals

Workshop attendees will be able to select the topics of particular interest and move from one station to the next at regular intervals. The workshop will conclude with a full-group discussion of the topics presented, and also the future of collaboration in online library and information science education.

Call for Presenters (it’s not too late to submit a proposal!)

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