It’s May. The birds are singing, the flowers are blooming, the sun is shining and I have begun my third MET course. The first week is ending and I am again struggling with the work load of full time school leadership and personal learning time. I am easing into the familiar schedule of early morning […]
For four days, I felt I was an online course designer. I was online, immersed in the topic, and focused on designing a course. With Jonassen, Anderson, and Bates & Poole at my side, and Wellman and Bloom as my guides, I was creating an online learning environment to support mentors do their work. During […]
This week’s module focused on gaming. The challenge was to try gaming in two selected online educational games. The conversations in the discussion forums connected to personal gaming experiences, gaming history, the highs and lows of gaming and how it all connects to educational endeavours. As I sit here and write this reflection my son […]
Hypertext is something most people don’t even think about. It is just there. Those little blue letters are an invitation to click. The pointer moves over them and instantly turns into a hand that says, “Come see where I’ll take you.” And then the learning adventure begins. The conventions for using and creating hypertext goes […]
The course, Design of Technology Learning Environments has begun. It started with a sampling of Last.fm music. Choices, likes, dislikes and new music evolved as music samples were input, new tunes discovered and old favourites were enjoyed. I learned that there are many music genres that I enjoy and new tunes that I designated with […]
My last reflection mentioned this quote: We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. T.S. Elliott Now at the end of this course, I look back to the beginning and see the journey I have […]
Teilhard de Chardin wrote “You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.” It is with this in mind that I write my reflection for this week’s culminating task. This week, as part of our culminating activity we have been asked to “reflect […]
There have been so many new ways to communicate and share ideas introduced throughout this course. Some of the ones that I have experimented with are posted here. My hope is to use some of these within my work as a teacher and leader. Wordle: Wordle for Psychology of Educational Technology Prezi: Presentation for DLG […]
The module on the Spirituality of Educational Technology will challenged us to examine our beliefs, in general and in specifics in relation to technology. Our first task was to share our beliefs. Here is my first ever Scrapblog creation. I have had some challenges to share this creation so I will also share each page […]
DLG – discussion, leadership, group….. I have recently completed my work with leading a module discussion relating to the Economics of Educational Technology. This module leadership was done with a group of diverse educators from many parts of the world. Our challenge was to work together to build a discussion on this topic and find […]