Collaborative Knowledge Develoment
May 12, 2008
Two, they develop collaboration skills and technology skills that are current at this time in our society. They learn to use online, shared document services. They learn to communicate in synchronous and asynchronous ways with a variety of students (I suggest you not let them self-select groups). This can be very frustrating for them… just like their jobs will be once they graduate (committee work anyone?).
Suggested guidelines for use in class:
- As a group, pick the 5 most confusing topics from the material for your designated exam.
- Share media in the Google document that will aid all of our understanding about the material.
- Pick websites that have simple explanations (and detailed explanations).
- Try to find material that is both verbal and visual and…
- If applicable, find a simulation or material that will allow us to have a phenomenological experience with the construct/theory/idea/task/etc…
- Organize the material so that it is easy to read and easy to use as a study aid. Usability is important! Remember that this is a public document and a variety of individuals may come to the site looking for knowledge.
- When you remix information from another site (words, images, simulations, etc.) you have an ethical responsibility to cite and credit the creator of the content. It will be much better for you to paraphrase how the material on a website can aid our understanding and then provide a link, than to copy the material.
- Plagiarism will result in a failing grade for the entire group, so monitor the groups work and help each other with APA style citations.
- Pre-Test Review! The last class period before the exam I want each group to share what you have done with us as a serious and engaged study session. You might want to create a presentation document to aid in this endeavor. I will be happy to help you copy handouts to aid any simulations (for example, you might want to recreate a classic experiment in class). Each document and presentation should improve over the semester as we learn from the previous groups mistakes.
How Tos and other stuff to make you a Google Doc expert.
- Videos to grow your expertise!
- The famous Google docs in plain English video (watch me first for inspiration)
- A very well organized series of how to videos from expert village (RSS )
- Google doc videos on YouTube… select from a variety of channels
- Text based help to make you an expert!
Chili Cookoff for Cancer — Relay 4 life
April 9, 2008
I totally need to leave town tomorrow for a conference and I’m making chili for the annual cookoff.
Can anyone help cure cancer by serving my chili up. Of course, there’s always a pirate theme and you’ll get to talk smack about the chili Dr. Lloyd an Dr. Smith serve up.
I’ll have everything ready for you… just look pretty and lick your fingers and go “yummy” put your vote in the skull.
PRIZESAre you a genius at sexual and gender differences? Do you like to laugh? Do you want to help animals?
Then you need to get a team together for the Battle of the Sexes! The winner gets a cash prize of $100.
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Thursday March 13th, 7 p.m. in Hoag
You can have 2-6 people on your team ($10 entry fee per team)
All of our profits will go toward building a cat house at PAWS. We want to build a structure so the cats and kittens can get outside and be adopted.
cartoon from the blog: Evolution… not just a theory anymore
How do you guys stream music? Anyone going 2 SXSW
March 3, 2008
Does anyone use twitter… follow me and I’ll do the same
January 28, 2008
MacWorld Keynote
January 15, 2008
It’s like Xmas with fireworks…. We live in very exciting times…. long live the apple!
I don’t know that I will use the movie rental… but at least this gets us started…
must save up for ipod touch and airport extreme with a 1TB hard-drive
so so silent
January 14, 2008
It is so much easier to consume and not share… much less create.I guess I could blame my job… but I think it’s me :-(
NGCSU FALL COMMENCEMENT 2007
December 14, 2007
I have no idea why… but I am giving the fall commencement address at NGCSU.
It’s really hard to decide what to say so I fell back on what comes naturally. I’ve stolen remixed almost everything in my speech from the Internet (YouTube, websites devoted to commencements, site that collect quotes…etc.) and I’ve remixed them for me and my audience. I’ve tagged many of them on delicious with the tag, commencement.
I also created a website on my University space for this graduating class (and anyone else that needs it). It’s full of classic stuff to entertain and inspire. Check it out here. I hope to put a copy of my speech there too, It’s still in rough shape right now, as a Google document of course.
The speech will mostly be about collaboration, networking, and the future of communication. I’ve borrowed liberally from the educational technology blogs that I aggregate. Thanks! I hope to give everyone credit during the speech. I got a great lead on a futurist article in the Guardian from Derek’s Blog. I am greatly impressed and inspired by Demo Girl… I can’t get enough of what she has to share.
Mad references go out to Barry Vercoe, Maurice Lévy, Biz Stone, Peter Norvig, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
RSS Workshop Today and Wednesday @ CTLE
November 13, 2007
- Get a Google Reader Account (if you don’t have one)
- Set Firefox Preferences to add RSS feeds to Google Reader
- Let’s add some different types of feeds:
- Google news search
- eBay search (help Santa find you a good deal)
- find a conference website or journal/find your association
- add a blog
- add the NGCSU info page (does anyone read it?)
- free time to add your stuff and get organized
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Now playing: Neil Young - Dirty Old Man
via FoxyTunes
Pavlov’s dogg has a mint reflex…
November 8, 2007
just for fun… a little classical conditioning film…
http://www.snotr.com/embed/183
