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Greg McVerry

Planning the first #edu106 module

#edu106 Tell Your Story 2019-09-04-2019 until 2019-10-02 Goal Build a website to share media you create to tell your story. Objectives: Examine the selfie as an artifact of identity Explore learner identities and the impact this has on learning. Explore the impact learning and education have on identitied. Annotate a research article for descriptive statisti

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Planning #EDU106 with my students

As part of my redesign of #edu106 I started by surveying the students. I want to design the class around their desire and needs. I first started asking about the technology they use. Instagram is still the most popular. Nobody used facebook anymore. Students have Twitter accounts but say they are more for reading, following celebrities or asking about custom

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#QuestionTheWeb

#QuestionTheWeb is a two phase intervention that recognizes agrumentation as a discourse. We first teach students to own their truth from their own domain and then understand how perspectives shape truth through the use of biased avatar based read alouds.

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Trying to Define Digital #literacies on wikipedia

I am trying to fix the digital literacy article on Wikipedia. Here is the current definition: Digital literacy refers to an individual's ability to find, evaluate, and compose clear information through writing and other mediums on various digital platforms. Digital literacy is evaluated by an individual's grammar, composition, typing skills and ability to pr

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Agency, Argumentation, and Blogging

Calls to bridge cognitive and social practices when teaching Argumentation. (Reznitskaya & Anderson, 2002) developed Argument Schema Theory. Beach and What's their name (year) called for an integration (cite that). We continue this effort by building our theory of change on the concept of argumentation as discourse. Argumentation as Discourse Teaching studen

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My First Review of @Shindigevents #digped

Since I get to work with so many wonderful volunteers in different open source communities I am always on the look out for a good event platform. As someone also trying to bring remote parity to open source events video platforms intrigue me. Both together and I am quite curios. I had to learn more about Shindig Looking at the features page Shindig checked o

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My Strategy of Instructional Design for #DigPed

Module One, “Tell Your Truth”-Every participating group and member will develop a personal website, blog, and shape their identity . Module Two, “Learn Something” Every participating group and member will document how they learn knowledge or skill within their chosen passion. Module T hree , “ Teach Something” Every participating group and member will teach

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To Dream Big, Think Small #IndieWeb

I am tired hearing about scale. In such a short time we have warped success to think it means millions overnight and billions in a year or two.... Because the web and local media will be saved doing the exact same thing again.... I want to dream big. So I think small. 大阪府立中之島図書館 flickr photo by m-louis shared under a Creative Commons (BY-SA) license A server

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What Makes A Good Lesson Plan?

Criteria for A Strong Lesson An assessment that would measure knowledge growth on a measurable objective derived from a national standard A series of scaffolded learning activities that would lead to mastery of the stated objective Differentiation based on content standards and atypical student development A Self Checklist Is my objective something I can mea

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Questioning Techniques

Resources From around the web on using #questions in the classroom The Chalkboard Splash: This TPT requires that students respond to a prompt and then find any open spot on the chalkboard or whiteboard where they can record their responses. In order to make this activity run smoothly, where students aren't needing to wait for each other, students should be a

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