Click to find out why you need a how-to video…
Front Page Slider
Vintage PinUp Cothing Holiday Wish List 2011
Looking around for some vintage pinup clothing I started to pull together some ideas for the upcoming holidays and then created this Wish List. I hope you enjoy turning the pages and exploring some fashionable ideas as much as I did creating this magazine.
MassCUE 2011: Presentation
Meg Robbins and I are presenting an hour-long, hands-on workshop at MassCUE 2011, Wednesday, October 26. entitled: Motivating students to become self-directed learners. If you want to learn more about understanding “how-to” motivate your students in their journey to becoming self-directed learners, this is for you.
- Learn what self-directed learning skills are.
- Understand what is critical you teach and how.
- Gain tips you can immediately implement into your classroom.
Come join us at the 2011 Technology Conference in the Gillette Stadium, Foxborough, Massachusetts. This year’s theme: Today’s Global Learners = Tomorrow’s Global Leaders = TGL2: What Next?
Self-directed Learning Skills
How do teachers, parents, paraprofessionals and other working with children help those students develop self-directed learning [SDL] skills? How can we help students plan for and reach their potential? I built and co-facilitate this course [within Moodle] to teach the skills necessary for developing 21st century habits of mind.
Participants learn to:
- Negotiate student learning contracts
- Teach independent thinking skills
- Motivate and empower students
- Become fabulous coaches
- Build an ePortfolio
There is so much more to learn by participating in this course. Come hear me and Meg Robbins give a one-hour presentation: Motivating students to becoming self-directed learners. MassCUE 2011.
How-To Make Time
A short how-to video explaining how-to use The Emergent Task Planner to be more productive.
Open Conversations
When working with faculty [or others] who already have an online course/classroom, one of the first questions might be to ask, “How can I help you?”
Starting the conversation this way leads no where. The client I am working with can just say, “I think everything is OK” or “I just don’t know what to do.”
Instead I try to open the conversation with something like: “This is a [insert adjective and noun] here on this page and in this area. How did you come about deciding to add this to your course?
Bam…now, I have paid attention to the professor/client and a rapport can be built. They can talk about their online classroom/situation and we can both discuss what’s working and what might need some tweaking.
When working with professors/clients/whomever, I always listen first and then ask open-ended questions to generate empathy, trust, and most of all, learning…for both sides.
