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Sunset

By Barbara on 10/30/2014

I think I’m just going to let higher ed be higher ed—whatever that is these days and for however long it lasts. It’s not that I couldn’t continue to write about it, as many outsiders still do, but I am… Read More ›

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Lurking in MOOCs

By Barbara on 09/30/2014

That’s what I’m currently doing, lurking and being a bad student. Skipping class for weeks and then maybe showing up to have a look around. Not doing the assigned work, although this is so expected that the instructor tells the… Read More ›
In the meantime…read these

By Barbara on 08/21/2014

Lately, every time I have an idea about teaching or technology, I start a draft post and then abandon it before trashing it completely. Obviously that feeling of being irrelevant in retirement came on faster than I thought it would,… Read More ›
Blogging and Other Forms of Writing

By Barbara on 06/19/2014 • ( 1 )

[Featured image from Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano @langwitches] Everybody in education is retweeting a version of this tweet for the obvious reasons that the graphic is both engaging and right on target for those of us who want to promote purposeful… Read More ›
Getting my content out of your vault

By Barbara on 06/08/2014

I care less about the walls of an LMS than I do about schools that keep my course content locked up on their servers. At first, you think it’s a nice service to you, but when you’re thinking of leaving… Read More ›
Adventures in a Pop Art MOOC

By Barbara on 06/02/2014

I finished the Warhol MOOC in Coursera, which unfortunately ended with me having to evaluate three student essays, a job I detested for pay, so was not happy about doing for free. Well, not totally unhappy either, since they use… Read More ›
You and Your Blog: A Love Story

By Barbara on 05/23/2014 • ( 1 )

I dressed the site in creamsicle for the summer. Education is a making endeavor and that’s the fun of it. Whether we’re making valentines in kindergarten, musical plays in grade school, or robots for the science fair in high school,… Read More ›
LMS support fills the day

By Barbara on 05/21/2014

I have to say that my current job, from which I retire soon, is only sporadically rewarding. Far too few are the conversations with faculty about translating a face-to-face course for an online presentation, or about how to use specific… Read More ›
Understanding and learning outcomes | Gardner Writes

By Barbara on 04/21/2014

Read the interesting post from Gardner Campbell here: http://www.gardnercampbell.net/blog1/?p=2239&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=understanding-and-learning-outcomes Yet something is deeply amiss, in my view. As we seek to perfect the language and institutionalization of a culture of “learning outcomes,” it seems we are necessarily moving toward a… Read More ›
and some learning

By Barbara on 04/10/2014

Update 5/5/14: I dropped the course today and took a raincheck on taking it the next time it’s offered. Yes, I was paying for the certificate and they will let you try again later. I could not keep up with… Read More ›
or put your audio file here

By Barbara on 03/25/2014

Following my Audacity workshop, I offer one of those and-here’s-another-place-you-can-put-your-audio-files workshops: Prezi with Audio. Especially as an alternative to those Flash Adobe Presenter presentations that you can’t make on a Mac—probably because of some weird Microsoft deal where we can… Read More ›
audio: the forgotten media?

By Barbara on 03/20/2014 • ( 1 )

Today I do my Audacity and SoundCloud workshop, which in the last year has become my most popular workshop. Who knew when I resurrected it last spring that audio could spark interest in a world overflowing with selfies and YouTubes… Read More ›