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Greg McVerry / Writing & conversations
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Dear Student, Do you plan to be a teacher? Do you identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or intersex (lgbtqi)? Are you interested in talking more about how your sexual orientation and your professional life may intersect? As a former lesbian teacher, the wife of a lesbian high school teacher, and a professor who works with future teachers, I
Greg McVerryList servs work, and work well. That's there major drawback. It is hard to move academics off of a tool that has functioned long before the Web. Yes it comes with the baggage of bad email practices we suffer through at work: Unecessary reply-alls, threads being hijacked, threads getting too long and complex, people replying to older threads with totally new
Greg McVerry@jgmac1106 Looking forward to hearing more in the context of the design research course! Stories from the field are welcome! #dmlcommons — Rafi Santo (@Empathetics) March 24, 2015 @linlouj #dmlcommons ohh its ancient 2008. More a thought piece exploring how to fit formative design into constraints of IES. — Greg McVerry (@jgmac1106) March 24, 2015 @jgmac1106
Greg McVerryHello #QuestionTheWeb I hope you enjoyed hacking the news. I fell a little behind this week and did not get to edit the raw video feed down. Did anyone try the Hack the News activity? Did anyone try the hack website credibility? If so I would love feedback. This Week We are moving on to think alouds. We will have our hangout on Air and our Twitter chat (thou
Greg McVerryI don't know the history of modern design but it fascinates me. It is as if Design is becoming more of a standard rather than a trend. The rise of minimal, flat, material (not sure what its called) design happened so fast. I don't know what drove it. Was it Apple turning away from skeumorphic design; Medium ushering in an era of large header images, line spa
Greg McVerryThis is my collection of posts that were supposed to go out as a Live Tweet Chat last night. I was accidently replying to my own post so nothing was syndicated to Twitter. I will be spending today taking the screenshots and the video and parsing them down into something that is more useful than my stream on incoherent thoughts. Okay huge PITA. I was trying t
Greg McVerryTeach w/ Twitter? Do networks look like this? privileged inner circle #mandatedtweets on outside? #ccourses pic.twitter.com/tApMEx8FYb — Greg McVerry (@jgmac1106) March 16, 2015 I also wonder if the death star effect only occurs when introducing social media rather than teaching #ccourses with already connected — Greg McVerry (@jgmac1106) March 16, 2015 "The
Greg McVerryHello #QuestionTheWeb, Due to a change in schedule the third #QuestionTheWeb show will be scheduled with Dr. Ian O'Byrne @wiobyrne tomorrow. We will be discussin how remix culture empowers students. I will host the Twitter Chat tonight. I will be live tweeting as I complete the two activities. The first activity: Hack the news introduces X-Ray Goggles. The s
Greg McVerryI get this question a lot, "How can I share photos on a classroom set of iPads." Before you say just go to flickr or some other site these are usually students under 13 and there are very few options for photosharing. Yes they can use Google Drive (if they are GAFE otherwise same <13 rule applies) or the teacher can set up shared folders. The problem is teac
Greg McVerryInteresting tid bit. I am working on a contract to support iPad roll out with a local district. As part of my research I went back and checked with every district I have supported in their iOS rollout. This includes some of the largest urban districts in the country to some of the smallest rural districts. Every single one. I mean each district abandoned iOS
Greg McVerryI know I may sound like a broken record (is missing packets the mp3 equivalent?) but we need to stress stories of the different Mozilla Web Clubs. Can we let folks tell their story as a form of assessment? We are looking for friction-free assessment so why not bake it into the workflow of the club leaders. We are already stressing that Mozilla Web Club mento
Greg McVerryMichelle Thorne posted a great round up of curriculum testing . Friction Free Assessment She asked about friction-free assessment. They don't exist. We would be chasing a unicorn named oxymoron if we spent too much time looking for friction free assessments, As Dan Hickey likes to remind us the introduction of assessments fundamentally alters the motivation
Greg McVerryI learn so much being part of co-learning in spaces like #questiontheweb. The act of teaching is the act of learning. This week we are focusing how you can annotate the web for critical evaluation. Dr Julie Coiro pointed out you can not separate argumentation and credibility. As a reminder though if you have not added your blog or rss url please use this for
Greg McVerryUpdated with correct times of Monday's Hack Session This is a very incoherent rough draft written on a day when there was no time to write. Therefore it is full of grammar mistakes, broken code and inappropriate snark. On this week community call we were making the final push to finish the skills under the competencies of version 1.5 of the Web Literacy Map.
Greg McVerryI enjoy the club calls as much as the web literacy calls. Whereas the web lit calls invogorate my mind the club calls spark my passion for teaching. Today was no different. We had a lot of fun taking stock of where the curriculum has come. The Mozilla Learning team does fantastic work at a tough pace. It helps when you draw on the experience of MOUSE and oth
Greg McVerryThese are just quick unorganized thoughts as my reaction to the webmaker club roll out plan If you asked the next billion web users who come online do you want them to say, "I am a webmaker" or "I am a Mozillian?" Both goals are fine, both are united by the same values, but the latter pushes a brand before learning. If that is the goal then the new name Mozi
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