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Recognizing Many Networks Loosely Joined at #MozAloha

Yesterday I got the chance to catch up with the Participation Team as we continue our development of the Leadership Toolkit . Everyone is off at all-hands in Hawaii. I joined remotely from Connecticut to hack away at some work. It was great to catch up with Mikko, Verena, and Emma. When it comes to developing resources for open pedagogy on a global scale I c

Exploring Open Pedagogy with @wiobyrne

The past few years at LRA @wiobyrne and I have been exploring Open Pedagogy. We started the Alt. Pub study group trying to push open research and publication. We have developed and pushed a research agenda around open pedagogy. The two of us have decided its time to get all our ideas together and focus them on a book. We are going to try and make the entire

Doing School an #edchat poem

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Its Not Social Media or Branding: Its Just You

EDU106 is a great class. I work with students on recognizing how literacy shapes our lives. In this week's maker party, which is really a drop in design studio time, I had a wonderful discussion with Joe Freer about personal brand and identiy . What I want students to realize: It is isn't about social media marketing or branding its really about living and l

Hiring with no Resume and Cover Level

In our recent conversations around credentialing and the workforce. Bryan Mathhers recently brought up how the cover letter and the resume reinforce privledge and do little to show what you can do. I thought about this in terms of my ideas around presence rather than simply portfolio assessments. I thought I would give it a try...It is also for an undergradu

Excited for #HipHopEd Tonight

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/BKBr_DiD79l/ I am looking forward to lurking on #HipHopEd tonight. I learn a lot on this chat as I listen. I am drawn to spaces of literacy scholars where words and meaning are seen first as tools of both agency and oppression. Tonight I will be looking forward to curating inspirational quotes. Our GearUp work with student

Had our first Maker Party in #EDU106

Announcement: Due to Labor Holiday We Will Move Mandatory Class to Wednesday Every Wednesday in #EDU106 we throw a maker party. Today marked the first event for this semesters class. EDU106 New Literacies: Digital Texts and Tools is set up for hybrid delivery. It succeeeds when a community emerges to support each other no matter where we gather. We meet for

Choosing Course Delivery #OpenEd #EdChat #HigherEd #Literacies #Edtechchat

Over the last few years I have explored a variety of tools for open course development. Asa refresher I design my online learing space with three elements: a hub with materials, an individual site for each learner, and a class stream. I am debating how I want to present my hubs. I orginally created a Wordpress site with multiple courses. Last year I tried bu

Some recent work on teacher preparation and cooperating teachers/supervisors

I asked AERA Division K for help lookign for research. We really cannot dismiss the social when discussin locating on the web. Its a go to: Haigh, M., & Ell, F. (2014). Consensus and dissensus in mentor teachers' judgments of readiness to teach. Teaching and Teacher Education, 40, 10-21. Haigh, M., Ell, F., & Mackisack, V. (2013). Judging teacher candidates'

What Should @Mozilla Work on Next?

flickr photo shared by carolinazuarq under a Creative Commons ( BY-NC ) We were asked in an email newsletter, on a GitHub issue, or a Discourse thread (can't remember), "What Mozilla should work on next." With the sunsetting of Snag-It for Chrome . I realized something. Firefox needs to have a feature like Snag-It for Chrome built in...or Nimbus the screen-c

Taken Down By the Smallest Bugs

flickr photo shared by John Tann under a Creative Commons ( BY ) license I had big plans for these last two days. I was going to catch up on reading and posting to student blogs. More importantly I have blocked out large swaths of time to spend with my family. They deserve a break from 70 hour work weeks as much as me, probably more. Yet now I find myself ut

In order to close the budget gap for the Connecticut State College System CSCU president Mark E. Ojakian asked staff to voluntarily use unpaid leave a

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In order to close the budget gap for the Connecticut State College System CSCU president Mark E. Ojakian asked staff to voluntarily use unpaid leave as a kind of a "furlough day." It is awesome when some who gets: -335,000 a year in salary -A free car -car insurance -free vehicle repairs asks someone who makes under 70,000 a year in state salary, has 500 a m

Disney: Don't Kill your Chance at a Female Yoda

Ahsoka Tano, until Rey appeared, fought as the only female Jedi in the official Star Wars canon. Disney now has the chance in Star Wars "Rebels" to finally answer the question, "Who is the female Yoda?" The Female Yoda Yes I know the prequels and the Clone Wars have many female Jedi. Yet look at the make-up of the Council in Attack of the Clones. Looks like

Republicans, Hate Trump? Blame your Party

Last night Trump trounced the Republican party. A brand mogul whose bravado lead this bashing Trump will either be the Republican nominee or see the party ingore the will of the people at a brokered convention I see Trump's rise as a direct result of gerrymandering after the 2010 mid-term elections. Obama was cast as a socialist boogeyman. Republicans ignore

Racialization in 10+ Tweets with @whimsylibrarian @patriciae1 and @Ebonyteach

So the notification went off. I pulled down the shade to take a look. @Ebonyteach @jgmac1106 @mmanderino Just might use this conversation in the LRA Presidential talk. Condenses racialization to 10+ tweets! — patricia enciso (@patriciae1) March 1, 2016 I looked at the previous Tweet and my interest grew. . @patriciae1 Twitter's been powerful for advocacy bc

How the @GitHub Update Could Be a Game Changer For #GAFE Teachers

GitHub made a recent update to their web interface that now makes me believe it is a place every educator belongs. flickr photo shared by Bernie Goldbach under a Creative Commons ( BY-NC-ND ) license You can now create and drag and drop files into your repos. Think of a repo as a cabinet,that holds both files and folders. Attached to your "cabinet" is a clip

Great post on OER @audreywatters #oer In the end there has to be some kind of platform or if we are going platformless with OER some kind of standard

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Great post on OER @audreywatters #oer In the end there has to be some kind of platform or if we are going platformless with OER some kind of standard that allows resources to have tagged metadata. Do you know how good people are at when it comes to tagging? I agree OER needs something such as GitHub. So I have a challenge to everyone go get three teachers. T

I broke one of the most important promises I heve made to myself

Not one minute. Not one dime. I made that promise May 19th, 1999 when I woke my brother Perez up from his slumber at the midngith release of Phantom Menace. I would never watch the first prequeln or give George Lucas any of my money for the movie. For sixteen years I kept that promise. Last night the credo blew up as predictably as some planet size laser. My

I get to teach High School classes!! #GearUpWorks #NHV #connectedlearning

flickr photo shared by Hldrmn under a Creative Commons ( BY-ND ) license We held our first session of Power and Passion-Writing for Change as part of #GearUpNH. I am always inspired by the scholars who join us. This semester Gear Up New Haven is offering after school academic programs on our main campus. New Haven Public Schools has donated the transportatio

@slamteacher @mcjsa @KrisGiere @Bali_Maha @edtechinsight #moocmooc Or do we need to cause some disruption and be empathetic to struggle? My students d

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@slamteacher @mcjsa @KrisGiere @Bali_Maha @edtechinsight #moocmooc Or do we need to cause some disruption and be empathetic to struggle? My students demand rubricized and structured online learning modules. They want step by step walk-throughs of every task. Is it more empathetic to build the learning space that gaurantees success or do we just provide suppo