A Bloggers Doubt Regarding Their Value
I’ve written before (Is blogging self-serving? & Turning others on to blogging) of my friend Kathy and of her starting up her own blog. Initially she was very excited and enthusiastic about writing about her upcoming journey (by herself) to India to do some volunteer work. She set up a beautiful looking blog and began […]
Microsoft Surface
Dear Santa: I’ve been very good this year (so far). For christmas could you please bring me a Microsoft Surface. I think I may need one really badly. If not could you at least send me to a conference or hotel lobby where I could play with one. Thank you,Tracyps. say hi to the reindeer
Another Plain English Video, Just in Time
“Wiki in Plain English” Yeah!!! Just in time for a presentation I’m making this Friday to an OD Network about all these tools we already know about, Lee Lefever does it again. Just released is a simple and straight forward explanation of a wiki. His unique presentations are broadcasts over the web but use a […]
The Power and Expanse of Internet Video
I remember seeing this RSS in Plain English Video in a posting a while ago and thinking how great. I definitely need to share this with my colleagues who just don’t quite get why I’m reading so much on the Internet lately. Now the reason I can’t remember which posting it was on has become […]
My Wiki as of Today
Well so far about 12 of 50 invited people have signed up for my first wiki, however no one has added and new information to the site. I set up lots of templates, suggestion pages, and ideas of where to begin, but nothing. I can’t actually add any content myself as I am unfamiliar with […]
My first wiki is created
One of the ideas I had after going to the eLearning Guild conference this year was to create a wiki. This wiki would be for new nursing staff hires at our hospital and would be a common place where they could comment on what it’s like to be a new nurse. They could write about […]
Legal Liability when Posting to a Blog from Online Courses
I was a little taken back by an email sent to myself from my instructor regarding my recent posts for my online course submissions. I was told it was in appropriate of me to place on a public blog any discussion which may have occured within the classroom environment without written permission from the fellow […]
Best Practices in Online Learning
My final submission for the current portion of my course required a brief summary of one of the chapters of our course text book. We are utilizing Palloff & Pratt’s (2003) “The Virtual Student”. I chose to go straight to the last chapter, “Becoming Truly Learner Focused – Best Practices in Online Learning,” hoping to […]
Recent posts
My last 3 posts, if it wasn’t completely apparent already, were assignment submissions for my current online course. If you have any comments on them it would be greatly appreciated. I do keep looking to the same blogs at the moment and referencing them quite frequently. I’m not trying to be biased and I’m sure […]
Relating Valuable Experiences through Social Book Marking
Personal Learning for Learning Professionals – Using Web 2.0 Tools to Make Reading & Research More Effective : eLearning Technology A recent quoted added to a discussion thread in my online course mentioned “Van Manen (2003, p.53) says “When someone has related a valuable experience to me then I have indeed gained something, even though […]