On Thursdays I usually participate in the online social media trend of #ThrowbackThursday where you re-post a picture or video memory. These posts can be anything the user wants: good memories, bad memories, recent history or decades-old memories. Today, as I was scrolling through old posts on the blog and was reminded that 9 years ago this week I was working with Mike Nantais (who was teaching at BU) and Tyler Letkeman (fellow B.Ed student at the time) on our contribution to the #ETMOOC Lipdub. This project saw participants from around the world work collaboratively to divide up a song,… Read More
Digital Identity: The Big Bad Web & Why It Needs You
*This blog post is the second portion of a two-part collaborative post between myself and Mary Bertram. Head over to her blog, Prairie Inspiration, to see the first portion of this post on digital identity, online presence and reasons to join the online education community. _________________________________________________________ When you Google yourself are you happy with what you find?* Does the search bring up pages that reflect you as a professional or are the pages not even about you? Perhaps your search for “Jane Doe” brings up “Jane Doe” from Tennessee who has unprofessional taste in life choices… how do… Read More
#ETMOOC Digital Storytelling
The #ETMOOC community is currently discussing Digital Storytelling and I couldn’t be more pleased because I recently attended a PD session on Digital Storytelling and also have a university assignment due this week in which I have to create a digital story! Perfect? I think so 🙂 Don’t You Love It When Things Work Out?? There was several different projects to undertake in this topic depending on your familiarity with digital stories, your interests and your time commitment! There included reflective blogging about digital storytelling, creating animated GIFS, creating a digital story, creating a 6-word story,… Read More
#ETMOOC Lip Dub Completed Project
Last week I posted about the Lip Dub project being completed by the #ETMOOC community and it is now finished! There were three people at our university participating in this part of #ETMOOC so we decided to do a clip together to showcase our university’s group. We are officially featured at 1:05 in the bottom right hand corner 🙂 Great job everyone!
Connected Learning
This week’s topic for #ETMOOC has been Connected Learning: Tools/Processes/Pedagogy, which I think is perfect because our Internet for Educators class has also been discussing Connected Learning as well! For me Connected Learning definitely included my PLN, so I’ve created a “Visualization of my PLN” below. Connected Learning doesn’t just personally apply to me as a teacher, however, it also applies to my students and how we set up our classroom activities. I can honestly say that our classroom wouldn’t be the same if it wasn’t for technology and the ability to network with other people… Read More
#ETMOOC Lip Dub
One of the projects the participants of #ETMOOC are completing is a collaborative “Lip Dub” of a well known song! If you aren’t familiar with this type of project, here is an example that I LOVED! I can’t imagine how much work would have had to go into creating a live presentation like that! Since the participants of #ETMOOC are located all around the world, however, we will be creating a video comprised of several individual clips. The example that was shared with us was: This is actually a Lip Dub project organized by Dean Shareski… Read More
#ETMOOC Intro
It took some peer pressure but I have decided to take the plunge and participate in #ETMOOC, a massive open online course on Educational Technology & Media. Here is the description provided on the course webpage, #etmooc is a ‘Connectivist’ MOOC (‘cMOOC) this is designed around a few key principles: – The course is developed with a weak ‘centre’. While etmooc-org will provide a level of aggregation, detail, and dirction, the majority of interactions are likely to occur within groups & networks, facilitated through various online spaces… Read More