This week, we as a class, have been working with a voice thread. I found this to be an extremely good educational tool. This allowed the learners to participate in forming the meaning around the subject mater. This is very powerful. The most important step in any educational process is the critical reflection piece. By allowing the students to be part of the creation of the message by sharing their personal thoughts they would actually take the time to properly reflect. Most students would not want to post something that others will see that is poor so they will put in a better effort into the reflection of the subject. Students can participate in two ways. They could watch the entire thread and see what their classmates are saying or stop the feed, which is what I did, and then think about it personally and then make my comment. Once I made mine without influence from others, I then listened to the other comments. If I wished, I could add more after.
As an educator I see this as a great tool. I could post a difficult lecture or subject with my explanation added and then have the students work through the slides and add comments as well to help clarify for their classmates. This takes the concept of a flipped classroom to an entirely different level by allowing interaction by students. As a student this can become a huge advantage for working on a collaborative project over a distance. I feel it would be much easier to create this type of voice thread so that a person could be looking at a screen shoot of the project while listening to an explanation and then of course add their comments as well. It would help with reducing the number of text messages and e-mails while working on a project.
Jeff
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Sunday, 17 November 2013
Friday, 8 November 2013
Digital Citizenship - Week eight
As I come off a week of vacation, or disconnecting to connect, I have really enjoyed this session. I have been reading everyone's blogs to try and catch up as well as get some ideas to determine who they are tracking on their feeders. I have again made adjustments to mine as I fine tune it so that I am getting the information I want and need while not having to wade through stuff that is just not interesting or relevant. I think that this tool will always be part of my learning. I have also enjoyed examining the different styles of writing. It has all been very interesting. This I believe should be a key piece to the reflective process as we look back at our own blogs.
The past couple of weeks have been very interesting as we have started to work on projects and collaborate online. Some of these have been very interesting. I unfortunately missed the hangout session with the group but believe it would be very similar to the one I did a few years ago on Skype, which was very cool. I look forward to making the next one. I see so much value in this from an educational point of view in the post secondary world. The professor could set up a weekly time when they are available, just like office hours, and answer questions, help work through problems with assignments or just check in. Then by exposing the students to this, I can see them creating study groups to work together. No more booking a room and trying to get people together face to face.
This week we looked at wikis and I must say that I was a disappointed with them as I was with description given in the text. As an educational tool on the surface they seem fine but I think that it would allow more students to ride the coat tails of others. My initial thought was that an instructor could put a set of problems or questions up for the class to work on but all that would happen is the students who want to learn would log on and actually work together to solve the problem or get the answer while others would just stop by after to see the finished result. It may afford greater opportunities for learning for a few but then remove them for rest. Even those students who wished to jump in have actually work through the problem but showed up after it was solved would not have had the opportunity. The other piece is that these sites are not secure so anyone could access them if they happened upon them. I am always aware of what information I want to share and I think that this bothers me as well. I do not think that a wiki will be part of my PLE.
I have however totally enjoyed working through both the todaysmeet and with Google Docs. I actually found that they were very simple to use and that I did connect online to connect with a project partner a few hundred kilometers away. Last week I disconnected to connect but this week I connected to connect. The balance in life is so very important. I enjoyed them so much that I have actually set up a couple of similar shared documents at work in very secure locations that at least two of us are working on. With out the need for so many e-mails with so many copies of just a slightly different document floating around it has been great. A quick communication about updates and suggestions and it has been very effective. I know that Google Docs will be part of my PLE and I will introduce my faculty to them as well in the hope that they use them with their students.
This week started for me with a presentation at Lambton College by a professor from Ottawa University on data collected around student retention. Now most of you might be thinking what has this student retention piece have to do with the last two weeks in which we examined ways to collaborate online. Well it really did. In part of the information it showed the first year retention rates of those who lived at home, to those who were out of town and not living at residence and those who were living at residence. Those who lived in residence had the highest retention of the three groups. Now I was shocked by this data as I thought that they only thing going on at residence was extra curricular activities. It occurred to me that the reason why was the connection with other students and the learning institution. this connection is a face to face interactions. One of the leading factors was how a student preformed in the first term. If you are always interacting with class mates you are going to be reminded about the quiz or assignment. When you are prepared, you will do better.This makes it so important for students who are not on campus 24/7 to have access to online types of collaborative and interactive spaces so they can connect with the learning institution and other students after the lights have gone out in the lecture hall. Most of the true learning happens after the lights are out anyway as students reflect on what was taught.
While looking through the information on my feeder I did come across a good blog on ways students can learn from others. I found it very interesting as it speaks to the way these students connect so effortlessly online. When I reflect on this I think that without being shown or taught younger students have figured out that if they can connect with me digitally, when I am responding it will be directly to them. In some cases, the student can actually have captured my full attention. Something that will rarely happen in the class room.
As I start to reflect and actually become a digital citizen I think I am going to have to figure this out. At Disney World I will not only be enjoying the hand in hand discoveries and interactions but also the ones that involve capturing something in a photo and sharing it with my grandchildren as well. They would not even actually have to be there with me.
Have a great week.
Jeff
The past couple of weeks have been very interesting as we have started to work on projects and collaborate online. Some of these have been very interesting. I unfortunately missed the hangout session with the group but believe it would be very similar to the one I did a few years ago on Skype, which was very cool. I look forward to making the next one. I see so much value in this from an educational point of view in the post secondary world. The professor could set up a weekly time when they are available, just like office hours, and answer questions, help work through problems with assignments or just check in. Then by exposing the students to this, I can see them creating study groups to work together. No more booking a room and trying to get people together face to face.
This week we looked at wikis and I must say that I was a disappointed with them as I was with description given in the text. As an educational tool on the surface they seem fine but I think that it would allow more students to ride the coat tails of others. My initial thought was that an instructor could put a set of problems or questions up for the class to work on but all that would happen is the students who want to learn would log on and actually work together to solve the problem or get the answer while others would just stop by after to see the finished result. It may afford greater opportunities for learning for a few but then remove them for rest. Even those students who wished to jump in have actually work through the problem but showed up after it was solved would not have had the opportunity. The other piece is that these sites are not secure so anyone could access them if they happened upon them. I am always aware of what information I want to share and I think that this bothers me as well. I do not think that a wiki will be part of my PLE.
I have however totally enjoyed working through both the todaysmeet and with Google Docs. I actually found that they were very simple to use and that I did connect online to connect with a project partner a few hundred kilometers away. Last week I disconnected to connect but this week I connected to connect. The balance in life is so very important. I enjoyed them so much that I have actually set up a couple of similar shared documents at work in very secure locations that at least two of us are working on. With out the need for so many e-mails with so many copies of just a slightly different document floating around it has been great. A quick communication about updates and suggestions and it has been very effective. I know that Google Docs will be part of my PLE and I will introduce my faculty to them as well in the hope that they use them with their students.
This week started for me with a presentation at Lambton College by a professor from Ottawa University on data collected around student retention. Now most of you might be thinking what has this student retention piece have to do with the last two weeks in which we examined ways to collaborate online. Well it really did. In part of the information it showed the first year retention rates of those who lived at home, to those who were out of town and not living at residence and those who were living at residence. Those who lived in residence had the highest retention of the three groups. Now I was shocked by this data as I thought that they only thing going on at residence was extra curricular activities. It occurred to me that the reason why was the connection with other students and the learning institution. this connection is a face to face interactions. One of the leading factors was how a student preformed in the first term. If you are always interacting with class mates you are going to be reminded about the quiz or assignment. When you are prepared, you will do better.This makes it so important for students who are not on campus 24/7 to have access to online types of collaborative and interactive spaces so they can connect with the learning institution and other students after the lights have gone out in the lecture hall. Most of the true learning happens after the lights are out anyway as students reflect on what was taught.
While looking through the information on my feeder I did come across a good blog on ways students can learn from others. I found it very interesting as it speaks to the way these students connect so effortlessly online. When I reflect on this I think that without being shown or taught younger students have figured out that if they can connect with me digitally, when I am responding it will be directly to them. In some cases, the student can actually have captured my full attention. Something that will rarely happen in the class room.
As I start to reflect and actually become a digital citizen I think I am going to have to figure this out. At Disney World I will not only be enjoying the hand in hand discoveries and interactions but also the ones that involve capturing something in a photo and sharing it with my grandchildren as well. They would not even actually have to be there with me.
Have a great week.
Jeff
Sunday, 3 November 2013
Digital Citizenship - Week Seven
Last week in my blog I stated how I disliked the reading week as I felt that I was disconnected form the world of education. I had noted that I found myself spending time investigating the many new ideas and concepts coming at me from twitter or my feeder and just how exciting this was for me. This week it was very different. I was on vacation with my Daughter and her family in Disney World. I had every intent on staying connected and carried with me both a laptop and my Ipad for this purpose. I carried both back without ever turning either of them on. I disconnected to be connected. Funny how many people do not even understand the concept of disconnecting to connect. The face to face interaction with my two grandchildren that was occurring moment to moment was the single most important connection at that time. While they were experiencing the sights, sounds and wonders that are Disney, I needed to have one hand in theirs with full focus on each experience instead of both hands on a device, nose down, reading the latest tweet, while life's moments passed by. There was a great interaction between me and them and I enjoyed learning with them and experiencing things with them. I found the proper use of the off button. My biggest lesson this week is balance. Unfortunately I saw way to many parents who do not understand this and wasted great opportunities to spend time with their children.
I did really enjoy playing with Google documents. I found that it did not work exactly like the Microsoft applications that we are all so familiar with but was close enough that it was very simple to figure out. As an educator this tool would be great for sharing with students. As an administrator I see many applications for working with faculty to develop a new policy or plan as well as then communicating the final document. Finally, I also work on many projects that require a few hands working on the same document and I can not wait to try this out as we build our collaboration project. As an experienced trades person I have made the connection between the new style of learning and apprenticeship years ago. This week feels very much like an apprenticeship. We read and explore a little to guide and then we go and do it. Learning more from the doing and less form the reading.
I found a couple of interesting articles in my feeder this week. The first was on learning as an apprenticeship. It was very interesting how they indicated that people should be shown how to learn by their parents. The very interesting piece for me is that the parents of most individuals who are very successful do just that. They disconnect to connect with their children and interact with them so that they learn and grow. Does not matter whether that disconnection was from a news paper, the telephone (the ones that hung on the wall), the television, our jobs or any of the new ways that we interact on the net, they still disconnected so they can totally connect. The second was on time management. A very important subject for everyone, not just students. We always tend to build our lives on the small things and then try to squeeze in the important ones. Kind of neat way to look at this with some good ideas to explain to students. It does go back to the disconnect to connect idea in that we push out spending time with kids floating on lazy river laughing to answer some text. The one is a small item that can be handled later, the one will only happen now. I guess it is for each person to decide which one is which.
Jeff
I did really enjoy playing with Google documents. I found that it did not work exactly like the Microsoft applications that we are all so familiar with but was close enough that it was very simple to figure out. As an educator this tool would be great for sharing with students. As an administrator I see many applications for working with faculty to develop a new policy or plan as well as then communicating the final document. Finally, I also work on many projects that require a few hands working on the same document and I can not wait to try this out as we build our collaboration project. As an experienced trades person I have made the connection between the new style of learning and apprenticeship years ago. This week feels very much like an apprenticeship. We read and explore a little to guide and then we go and do it. Learning more from the doing and less form the reading.
I found a couple of interesting articles in my feeder this week. The first was on learning as an apprenticeship. It was very interesting how they indicated that people should be shown how to learn by their parents. The very interesting piece for me is that the parents of most individuals who are very successful do just that. They disconnect to connect with their children and interact with them so that they learn and grow. Does not matter whether that disconnection was from a news paper, the telephone (the ones that hung on the wall), the television, our jobs or any of the new ways that we interact on the net, they still disconnected so they can totally connect. The second was on time management. A very important subject for everyone, not just students. We always tend to build our lives on the small things and then try to squeeze in the important ones. Kind of neat way to look at this with some good ideas to explain to students. It does go back to the disconnect to connect idea in that we push out spending time with kids floating on lazy river laughing to answer some text. The one is a small item that can be handled later, the one will only happen now. I guess it is for each person to decide which one is which.
Jeff
Wednesday, 23 October 2013
Digital Citizenship - Week Six
Week six is finally here. I struggled a bit last week. Not due to the hardships of trying to get Evernote to work, which were many, but because it was reading week at Brock. I found it funny that I felt disconnected form what was happening in the wide world of education as I was not spending as much time interacting on line at the beginning of the week. Reading week, I was only exploring these cool tools for grades. As the week progressed I did change this and started to explore. Critically reflecting on how I felt and my actions through the week has given me the sense of clearly where this path is leading and the changes that have and will occur in me. I can now spend hours just reading the vast number of twitter posts that have links to blogs or web sites and then just explore each one of those and the time just slips away. The new ideas and concepts are so vast that at times it becomes tough to decide which ones to share and explore further. Each one in its own way exciting and intoxicating as my mind races to determine how or what can be tried in my classrooms or implemented at Lambton College. The interaction of all the tools has actually helped the process. It has now become clear how I can use this technology to help me collect information that is on a particular topic and the many ways in which it can be shared.
The Evernote piece was a tiny struggle for me for a couple of reasons. First getting the clipper to perform correctly was a bit of a learning curve that I have now mastered. Nothing wrong with the tool, the issue was all in the student. I still could not get an academic Article from a Library uploaded. I have not given up, just have not yet been successful. The other issue was that I wanted to only find things to store in Evernote through twitter or my feeder. This was turning out to be very time consuming and showing very little results. In the end, I just searched the web to come up with the many "notes" that are going to be required for this research project.
My time looking through my feeder and posts on twitter were not totally wasted as I did find lots of great information. One interesting piece spoke to the increase of social media use in class rooms. There is some statistics that they are using but I wonder what type of social media and just how is it being used. There were also many other links at the bottom of the page that are worth a look. I believe that it is about time and that these numbers are way to low. I think that as social media evolves, great educators will use all these tools to their advantage to guide the students to new concepts and ideas that they will explore themselves. Quality educators, using social media to its fullest, will reach more students at any age, and facilitate learning and real change.
I also found a piece that caused me to laugh aloud as I realized that this was exactly what was occurring in me. Ferriter and Provenzano ( I am following Provenzano on twitter as well) wrote a very good piece on how the use of social media has and well replace the need for professional development. Of course I could not help but see myself as they describe the interaction between like minded educators, sharing and learning from one another using the numerous tools that we have been exploring in this course. Interestingly I feel that this will only be a small number as I only see the truly great educators taking advantage of this now. The revolution has started, just how long will it take before all educators are on board?
I am excited as I grow and learn. I find myself looking forward to the next new bit of the puzzle for my PLE and discovering just how I will make it fit with the others. Thank you reading week for giving me the oppurtunity to critcally reflect and to grow as I am starting to become digitally literate.
Jeff
The Evernote piece was a tiny struggle for me for a couple of reasons. First getting the clipper to perform correctly was a bit of a learning curve that I have now mastered. Nothing wrong with the tool, the issue was all in the student. I still could not get an academic Article from a Library uploaded. I have not given up, just have not yet been successful. The other issue was that I wanted to only find things to store in Evernote through twitter or my feeder. This was turning out to be very time consuming and showing very little results. In the end, I just searched the web to come up with the many "notes" that are going to be required for this research project.
My time looking through my feeder and posts on twitter were not totally wasted as I did find lots of great information. One interesting piece spoke to the increase of social media use in class rooms. There is some statistics that they are using but I wonder what type of social media and just how is it being used. There were also many other links at the bottom of the page that are worth a look. I believe that it is about time and that these numbers are way to low. I think that as social media evolves, great educators will use all these tools to their advantage to guide the students to new concepts and ideas that they will explore themselves. Quality educators, using social media to its fullest, will reach more students at any age, and facilitate learning and real change.
I also found a piece that caused me to laugh aloud as I realized that this was exactly what was occurring in me. Ferriter and Provenzano ( I am following Provenzano on twitter as well) wrote a very good piece on how the use of social media has and well replace the need for professional development. Of course I could not help but see myself as they describe the interaction between like minded educators, sharing and learning from one another using the numerous tools that we have been exploring in this course. Interestingly I feel that this will only be a small number as I only see the truly great educators taking advantage of this now. The revolution has started, just how long will it take before all educators are on board?
I am excited as I grow and learn. I find myself looking forward to the next new bit of the puzzle for my PLE and discovering just how I will make it fit with the others. Thank you reading week for giving me the oppurtunity to critcally reflect and to grow as I am starting to become digitally literate.
Jeff
Thursday, 10 October 2013
Digital Citizenship- Week Five
This week I am very disappointed with the updates in my feeder. I have actually discarded some of the blogs that have not had very much change and replaced them with new blogs that I have found through the educators I am following on Twitter. One such blog from those I added was on a new tool that I am going to try. Kind of a cool concept around sharing files without uploading or downloading. Check it out and give it a try.
During this week I am attending the National Council of Deans of Technology in Toronto with representatives from Post Secondary institutions across the country. It was very interesting that one of the topics at this meeting connected nicely to a blog I found from one of the people I am following in Twitter. Basically the issue is the lack of foundational learning in the courses required for technology options. We spoke about how the lack of these courses when students reach the cross roads of deciding what they will do for their future and how this takes many choices away from them. Even with the required courses, we are finding that the students are still not properly prepared to enter College. I totally agree with Noel Hulsmen that these choices in high school, that translate into limited options for post secondary education, will start to have a negative affect on Canada.We need our youth to gain skills required for the workforce of the future.
One of the presentations at the conference was around the lack of IT professionals going forward and the prediction that there will be a shortage of 106 Thousand people to fill positions by 2020. I think their math is off a little but they of course present the information that they want you to see. What interested me is in part of the presentation they were speaking to the need of creating a positive Digital Citizenship for all students. This topic did raise an eyebrow or two and some interesting discussion. It was very apparent that most of these Deans had never even given the subject a second thought. What is funny about this is how much they use digital communication as the number of ipads and cell phones was staggering. No one could go an hour (myself included) with out checking e-mail, twitter, and who knows what else. They all use it without a second thought of what they are sending out to the World.
I am enjoying my new twitter account and find that when I have a thought and I now want to tweet about it. I am struggling a little as I transition from using the tool as an outlet for my ideas and transition so it becomes more of an input for the numerous ideas flowing by. I am following 16 people now and being followed by 8. I laugh at myself when I am excited by an additional follower.
Have a great week and Happy Thanksgiving
Jeff
During this week I am attending the National Council of Deans of Technology in Toronto with representatives from Post Secondary institutions across the country. It was very interesting that one of the topics at this meeting connected nicely to a blog I found from one of the people I am following in Twitter. Basically the issue is the lack of foundational learning in the courses required for technology options. We spoke about how the lack of these courses when students reach the cross roads of deciding what they will do for their future and how this takes many choices away from them. Even with the required courses, we are finding that the students are still not properly prepared to enter College. I totally agree with Noel Hulsmen that these choices in high school, that translate into limited options for post secondary education, will start to have a negative affect on Canada.We need our youth to gain skills required for the workforce of the future.
One of the presentations at the conference was around the lack of IT professionals going forward and the prediction that there will be a shortage of 106 Thousand people to fill positions by 2020. I think their math is off a little but they of course present the information that they want you to see. What interested me is in part of the presentation they were speaking to the need of creating a positive Digital Citizenship for all students. This topic did raise an eyebrow or two and some interesting discussion. It was very apparent that most of these Deans had never even given the subject a second thought. What is funny about this is how much they use digital communication as the number of ipads and cell phones was staggering. No one could go an hour (myself included) with out checking e-mail, twitter, and who knows what else. They all use it without a second thought of what they are sending out to the World.
I am enjoying my new twitter account and find that when I have a thought and I now want to tweet about it. I am struggling a little as I transition from using the tool as an outlet for my ideas and transition so it becomes more of an input for the numerous ideas flowing by. I am following 16 people now and being followed by 8. I laugh at myself when I am excited by an additional follower.
Have a great week and Happy Thanksgiving
Jeff
How to carve a Pumpkin for Halloween
Is he kidding? Everyone knows how to do this. We have been doing it the same way for years. Cut out the top around the steam. This becomes the lid. Reach in and spend the next 15 to 30 minutes scoping out all the seeds. Huge mess. Take a sharp instrument and scrape the bottom of the pumpkin to get a flat spot to set the candle on. Spend the next five minutes washing your hands and arms to get the sticky mess off. Now we carve a face as desired. Take it to the front porch and sometimes shim the bottom so it will sit just right. Put a candle in the pumpkin and struggle to light it without burning yourself. Easy.
We should never think that just because this is the way we have always done it that it is correct. The part in the bottom of the pumpkin that needs to be scraped out to make a flat space for a candle actually has all of the seeds (and mess) connected to it. I cut out the bottom. I very carefully pull out the bottom and most of the seeds and mess come with it. I do need to reach in and get a few but this only takes a minute or two. No need to wash hands and arms. Cut the face as desired. Light a candle and set it down on front porch. Place pumpkin, with its nice flat bottom that I created, over top. Now that really was easy.
We should never think that just because we have been doing something in one way for a long time that it is the only way. The results at the end of both exercises is exactly the same, you have a nice carved pumpkin. The path to get there was very different. As educators we need to keep this in mind and start to embrace the ever changing world. The result of an educated student will be the same, we will just be taking a different, and in some cases, a much better path to get there.
Have a happy Halloween.
Jeff
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We should never think that just because this is the way we have always done it that it is correct. The part in the bottom of the pumpkin that needs to be scraped out to make a flat space for a candle actually has all of the seeds (and mess) connected to it. I cut out the bottom. I very carefully pull out the bottom and most of the seeds and mess come with it. I do need to reach in and get a few but this only takes a minute or two. No need to wash hands and arms. Cut the face as desired. Light a candle and set it down on front porch. Place pumpkin, with its nice flat bottom that I created, over top. Now that really was easy.
We should never think that just because we have been doing something in one way for a long time that it is the only way. The results at the end of both exercises is exactly the same, you have a nice carved pumpkin. The path to get there was very different. As educators we need to keep this in mind and start to embrace the ever changing world. The result of an educated student will be the same, we will just be taking a different, and in some cases, a much better path to get there.
Have a happy Halloween.
Jeff
Jeff's Blog by Jeff Murrell is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Saturday, 5 October 2013
Digital Citizenship - Week Four
I think that I will try and keep this weeks post a little shorter. I might want to think that it is because I have spent so much time this week already but I was just having so much fun exploring. The real reason is that as I continue to expand my knowledge I have come to understand that if I continue to create lengthy blogs with something important at the end, chances are no one will ever read the entire thing.
The bookmarking tool I choose was Diigo. I have actually found the free app and installed it on my ipad. I choose this one because I think it will be the best for our students going forward as our college becomes more mobile. I did some bookmarking already and it can be found at www.diigo.com/user/jrmurrell. In fact, when I was reviewing my feeder I found another blog that I booked marked on apps, which I will totally explore later. This becomes a great interaction of both tools. I find a couple of things that interest me but do not have the time to properly explore at that moment. I bookmark it with Diigo and revisit it later. Very cool.
For my Curating tool I choose Storify. I know that once I get accustomed to searching the internet properly I will be able to utilize this tool very nicely. I created my first attempt on Saturday night but woke on Sunday morning realizing that I had linked not to the stories but to the websites that carried the stories and of course, the stories would change. I think I have the hang of it now. Check it out at http://storify.com/jrmurrell/will-keselowski-spoil-kyles-title-run.
I found another very interesting piece in my feeder and I totally agree with Vickie Davis. As Post Secondary education moves more towards e-learning, or online, or mobile and more and more students are bringing personal devices to school, we are going to need libraries even more. This is so true as we reduce the space for open computer labs we need to ensure that students still have space and access to computers to allow them to do proper research and to study in a quite space while at the school.
What a cool and fun week. I am starting to connect some of the dots and see the relationship of everything in the new PLE. There is no quick answer here but rather the collaboration of using all the tools together to pull in all the knowledge for many sources into a usable space.
Jeff
The bookmarking tool I choose was Diigo. I have actually found the free app and installed it on my ipad. I choose this one because I think it will be the best for our students going forward as our college becomes more mobile. I did some bookmarking already and it can be found at www.diigo.com/user/jrmurrell. In fact, when I was reviewing my feeder I found another blog that I booked marked on apps, which I will totally explore later. This becomes a great interaction of both tools. I find a couple of things that interest me but do not have the time to properly explore at that moment. I bookmark it with Diigo and revisit it later. Very cool.
For my Curating tool I choose Storify. I know that once I get accustomed to searching the internet properly I will be able to utilize this tool very nicely. I created my first attempt on Saturday night but woke on Sunday morning realizing that I had linked not to the stories but to the websites that carried the stories and of course, the stories would change. I think I have the hang of it now. Check it out at http://storify.com/jrmurrell/will-keselowski-spoil-kyles-title-run.
I found another very interesting piece in my feeder and I totally agree with Vickie Davis. As Post Secondary education moves more towards e-learning, or online, or mobile and more and more students are bringing personal devices to school, we are going to need libraries even more. This is so true as we reduce the space for open computer labs we need to ensure that students still have space and access to computers to allow them to do proper research and to study in a quite space while at the school.
What a cool and fun week. I am starting to connect some of the dots and see the relationship of everything in the new PLE. There is no quick answer here but rather the collaboration of using all the tools together to pull in all the knowledge for many sources into a usable space.
Jeff
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