thoughts about learning and making
For the second round of #DigPINS, an online faculty development course, I made a few changes. I decided to have our course base in Slack instead of our LMS. I found that during the first round the discussion felt like we were sitting in a rigid classroom environment, orange chairs and all, and there wasn’t…
image: Taken at the Art Institute Chicago on July 17, 2016 – Conversation in Studio, 1943 by Milton Avery There are many things happening in the world right now that cause deep heartbreak. There are systematic, deep rooted problems that are hitting a great many people directly and violently and I struggle to express my care, do…
Should we all be activists? I remember when I went to college in 1995, like many others, I searched for a cause. I was searching for something to care about. I had this image of college as the place where you become active and responsible, but at the same time I was figuring out who…
In January of 2016 I did an experimental online faculty development course with six faculty members at St. Norbert College. Here is the original course outline. I’m very excited to start the course with a second group of participants. I learned a lot from the last go around and I have changed some of the…
I’m working on a presentation that I proposed for Social Media: Connected Culture in May titled “on being and becoming responsible & caring digital citizens”. My initial idea was that I would talk about my experience with a pilot course I did with faculty on Digital Pedagogy, Identity, Networks, and Scholarship (#digpins) as a way…
DIGITAL PEDAGOGY IDENTITY NETWORKS AND SCHOLARSHIP This is a pilot 4-week online course I ran for faculty at St. Norbert College exploring digital pedagogy, identity, networks, & scholarship. The course content and some of the discussion was in our LMS, but much of the course happened in the open as participants posted on their blogs,…
@sundilu @mark_mcguire @Dan_Blick Maybe next time we could try a slow chat over the day… dip in 10min here and there. #DigCiz — Autumm Caines (@Autumm) February 16, 2016 This is the fifth week of #digciz chats, chats about digital citizenship specifically in higher ed. If you have not been following, (wait have you not…
Photo by Malcolm Brown (https://twitter.com/mbbrown/status/695024821378248704) This week had a lot of great firsts for me, it was my first time going to ELI, my first time meeting a lot of the people attending whose work I have been interested in and following online, and the first time for me to participate in VConnecting as an…
The human of #humanmooc rang out and held true for me during the month of December. I didn’t finish assignments, but I found the ways in which my learning could happen and that was through conversations and getting past the fear of being in the middle of the conversation, instead of comfortably lurking. This was…
I started an online course with a group of faculty at St. Norbert College this week. The idea of the course is for the group to explore their digital literacies and digital identity to develop and inform their digital pedagogy. Here is the course methodology. Since we are doing part of the course in our institution’s…
