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Greg McVerry / Writing & conversations
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I have searched high and low for the magic sauce. I haven't found it yet. I want the ingredient that makes community flourish in the online classes I teach. I blamed the LMS. Studnets just worked through assignments and if you said post and respond twice. That is exactly what they did. I realized it is in't the LMS that suck it was me. I tried every configur
Greg McVerryI am working on some iPad tutorials (I hope to get to game making) and wanted animated gifs. These are my fav way to do tutorials. My workflow is probably messed up. Here it is: Use reflector to send iPad to Mac. Record to Screencast-o-Matic. Edit with overlays. Upload to Youtube. Make gifs using Imgur. I originally added annotations using Google's new tool
Greg McVerryWhen Arizona passed archaic immigration policies and Indiana passed laws that allowed discrimination every teacher organization I belong to was up in arms. Conferences were cancelled and moved. Future bids were forbidden. No business deals with those States. Why not the same outrage over the Confederate Flag that flies in certain states, license plates embla
Greg McVerry"Pathways" innovation is good, but we also need to inspire students to be pathfinders, trailblazers. #VirginiaQuality #thoughtvectors — Gardner Campbell (@GardnerCampbell) June 9, 2015 @jgmac1106 Here the analogy breaks down a bit.... — Gardner Campbell (@GardnerCampbell) June 9, 2015 @jgmac1106 Too often we turn students' habitat of learning and interests i
Greg McVerrySo we had a #teachtheweb call today (note using hashtag to encapsulate the combined curriculum and teach like @mozilla calls around a shred goal) Here is my brief feedback: We had a new moderator today. It was great to work with Robert Friedman from Hive Chicago. Hope we don't lose the snarky banter, or at least just save it for the chat window, but working
Greg McVerrySo we had our next leadership and learning (formerly Open Fluency Call) yesterday. Don't have time for a a full blog post so wanted to jot down a few thoughts. You can find the etherpad here . Not sure if there is an audio recording. Will post if it happens. Agreements (subject to change often) We will start thinking abut this as Open Web Leadership instead
Greg McVerryHad a great #digped conversation today about evaluating tools. We talked about the primacy of pedagogy and how we evaluate our tool use. Here was my fav exchange How can we ensure the tools we implement benefit students and learning? How can we invite students to help evaluate tools? #digped — Hybrid Pedagogy (@HybridPed) May 1, 2015 @HistoryJack @HybridPed
Greg McVerryThese are the one's I found in the database. If yours is missing let me know and I will add it. [ View the story "#WalkMyWorld" on Storify ] Allee's #walkmyworld project Learning Event 10: # Denouement https://t.co/F9WgSszirm via @teacherallee — Allee Burka (@teacherallee) April 18, 2015 #walkmyworld #ed6627 Learning event 10: Denouement https://t.co/CXriqbC
Greg McVerrySo you want to learn the secret sauce of using memes in education? What makes ideas spreadable? How can you use memes in the classroom for literary analysis? How do we do it, inspire others, and not go crazy? How do we keep kids sharing safe content. There is art to it all. Using memes is more than just throwing a quote on a pic. It is multimodal composition
Greg McVerry@emamjohnson trust me. I like counting things and making things that count. Runs deep in the DNA #AERA15 — Greg McVerry (@jgmac1106) April 18, 2015 Had a wonderful conversation with Emily Johnson about assessment at AERA. I am glad to see Twitter pick up at AERA and want to engage in academic discourse. Twitter at AERA looks more like a broadcast channel and
Greg McVerryLaura Hilliger organized the first Mozilla Learning Networks call around "Open Fluency." This is part of Laura's ongoing charge of Teach Like Mozilla. Here is the pad. Not sure if the call was recorded if was I will add audio later. I am excited for the calls we brought much of the old #webliteracy team back together plus added in Mozilla reps and a more div
Greg McVerryI steal from Alan Levine quite often. I am most prod of hauling away a backstage blog from an open course he co-facilitated as part of #YouShow15 . Then yesterday during #tjc15 folks started asking me about the role of having a back stage blog. So I wanted to show an example. Once again stole from cogdog. He posted a final report from #YouShow15 . I loved th
Greg McVerryWe need to build the Web not use the Web I can't build the crazy stuff yet, but I am getting good at messing up stuff in new ways. The Web is at a crossroad, and open tools are becoming more diverse. It is time to not just understand the open Web but build the open Web Philanthropic Entrepreneurial Activism That pretty much sums up the Mozillian spirit in my
Greg McVerryThinking about liberal licenses and the Mozilla Web Club curriculum. Great discussion on Git about the difference between free and open. Glad to see folks like David Ascher and Atul Varma recognizing the power of entrepreneurail activism.
Greg McVerrySince #dmlcommons is doing the pathways series simultaneously with DBR I thought I would share soemthing I found while pretending I was going to organize my file. This was my original personal statement when I applied to my doctorate program (had to apply a second time but that is another story). Technology has reshaped literacy by creating new means of comm
Greg McVerryThanks a lot @jgmac1106 u gave the power and support for us things should be done wen we do along.. @I day halo @CoderdojoErode @GauthRaj — Udhaya$achin (@udayhalo) April 4, 2015 I consider Mozilla Learning to be the worlds biggest Design Based Research Project. I wish there was a metaphorical equivalent of the Hydra that did not have a negative connotation.
Greg McVerryI used to believe opt-out was a parental right. I now see it as a civic responsibility in New York. What is underway is a direct attack on public education under the guise of raising standards. I have no real problem with the CCSS, especially when states like NY addressed many of the short comings, through customization. It is the destructive effects of acco
Greg McVerryWhat if they weren't MOOCs but live formations of Special Issues in Open journals? Learners make, facilitators lead, everyone learns. The curstion ofartifacts then analyzed in public. Knowledge creation through curation?
Greg McVerryThe school to prison pipeline is a common trope in edreform circles. Both sides, those who favor accountability based reform and those who favor community based reform, use statistics of recidivism and incarceration to their own gain. An often cited symbol is the school security guard. They are described as brooding figures who will themeselves throw student
Greg McVerryClick Here for Directions Directions Search for your tweets: Go to the Twitter Analytics Page Click on the Searchable Twitter Database Enter your twitter handle in the Screen Name Choose A Tweet Navigate to a Tweet you want in your curation Ask is this a product I want to share? Think: What does this say about me Click on the Time Stamo Navigate to the Tweet
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