Keynote presentation for Keene State College Faculty Technology Showcase (Feb 19, 2011).
Join the Revolution! http://secretrevolution.us/
Audio available at
http://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/audio/keene-state-2011.mp3
41. “Ah the syllabus… that sacred document that serves as a
path, a beacon, a contract between student and teacher for
the upcoming 16 weeks of the course…. or that thing your
department chair asks you to hand in or put in a three ring
binder so when the evaluators come (once every 5 yrs) they
can see what you have done. Oh yeah, that…”
Barbara Sawhill, Oberlin College, http://languagelabunleashed.org/2011/01/23/syllabus-hacking-with-bryan-and-the-bava/
54. “I’m a one man army, like many of you. This project
wasn’t the result of the effort of a team of a dozen
people over 6 months. It was me, a couple weeks, and a
lot of lost sleep. To do this, I committed to the idea that it
would be a pet project...
Part of me feels that you have to be willing to take those
risks though when you’re in web development. Playing it
safe means you’ll only ever be average.”
Michael Fienen, Pittsburg State University
http://doteduguru.com/id5292-mobile-pittstate-how-we-did-it-with-no-money-or-resources.html
57. “In literally seconds, the document began to fill out as people
arrived to collaborate or observe. On many occasions, people
were booted out as the maximum number of editors had been
reached (a number that seems to be around 50 simultaneous
users). It was interesting to watch the information emerge. As
well, I was fascinated to see others who focused on the
formatting and readability of the document. Individuals decided
what they could contribute, and worked together for a common
goal.”
Crowdsourcing Solutions
Alec Couros, http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/1904
59. “I set up a Google Doc that everyone in class can edit before I lecture or lead a
discussion on material they will refer to all semester. I fill in the major topic
headings in an outline format.
When they all have it open on screen I tell them to collaboratively take notes as
we go over the material. I set them up with a goal - example: "you need to
understand these terms well enough to use them correctly in class discussions
and written critique papers assigned throughout the term. If one person's notes
don't help you enough, add your own underneath. We want a collection of
explanations of these concepts that we can all refer back to later."
Written critiques using the terms discussed were due last week and I have to say
these are the best first-time critiques I've seen from a class ever.”
Cheryl Colan, http://digitalart.me/
63. They Stole OUr Learning Environment - Now We're Stealing It Back
http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/blogarchive/007429.html
64. “Moodle VLE is generally locked down, the wiki
scrapes every flavour of embed, script and embed are
not allowed in resource pages... but - if all you put in
an HTML resource page is a single iframe, it seems to
get through...
So I can actually embed whatever I want in an inframe
container within the VLE...”
The Amazing Tony Hirst, Open University, http://ouseful.info
They Stole OUr Learning Environment - Now We're Stealing It Back
http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/blogarchive/007429.html
66. “Although the organisation I work for supported and
paid me to develop a project using Second Life, we
weren't able to install the software on our organisation's
computers (not approved - it takes 10 months for
software to be approved!) so we used USB sticks and
software called 'mojopac' to circumvent the system and
we were able to do demos to teachers without the
organisation ever knowing”
http://www.mojopac.com/
http://www.slideshare.net/Aliandrews/second-life-in-your-pocket-presentation
71. Robert Rios http://www.youtube.com/user/profribas
73. “My school blocks everything. The filters are terrible and
when I complain to the district I get ignored or yelled at.
I went out and got a MIFI (2nd line on my Verizon acct with a
free Palm Pre Plus that comes with FREE mifi). I now jack that
into my laptop, plug the schools projector into my laptop, and
now my students can present from any site they want!
(YouTube, Facebook, etc!) ”
Devon, un-named school in un-disclosed city
76. “In addition to this activity being fun, I also noticed that
there was a lot of higher-order thinking going on.
Students were having to synthesize passages, evaluate
which scenes most accurately characterized their
passage, narrow them down to 5 images, decide how to
physically portray those 5 essential scenes and
ultimately create them. One reason the students loved
this activity was because it was challenging, but the
kind of challenging that is so much fun you don't realize
how much work it actually is.”
Curby Alexander, http://www.curbyalexander.net/blog/2011/02/using-posterous-as-a-class-photo-archive/
77. Homework / Lecture Flip
Donna Gaudet, Scottsdale Community College http://sccmath.wordpress.com/
79. “Sometimes I wonder what visitors expect to find in this
blog for First Certificate. I imagine them googling and
landing here in search of learning, tips and practice.
Just think. All of those students alone with a computer
searching for exercises to improve their English. Just
like you. Now, isn't it a pity we don't share our findings?
This morning I woke up with world domination plans
and thought it would be fantastic to pull the results of
those searches and share them.”
Claudia Cersa, Buenos Aires, http://fceblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/grammar-exercises.html
http://fceblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/grammar-exercises.html
88. Must be open and shared... cc licensed flickr photos by
Ryan Wolf and ryancr
http://flickr.com/photos/re_wolf/3615800599/
http://flickr.com/photos/ryanr/142455033/
89. Tag the
Revolution
Share anything revolutionary by
tagging in delicious as
secretrevolution
http://delicious.com/tag/
secretrevolution
flickr photo by Laurie | Liquid Paper
http://flickr.com/photos/96221617@N00/121545675/
90. Tag the
Revolutionaries
And also tag local Keene State
examples with the “secret” tag
ksc
http://www.delicious.com/tag/
secretrevolution+ksc
flickr photo by Laurie | Liquid Paper
http://flickr.com/photos/96221617@N00/121545675/
91. cc licensed flickr photo by David M* cc licensed flickr photo by doug88888
http://flickr.com/photos/d_a_v_i_d_m_/102953776/ http://flickr.com/people/doug88888/