OLC - Dual Layer MOOCs
Here is the recording of the live session I was in where Matt Crosslin talked about the dual layer MOOC design. I still question the notion of assessments in MOOCs :-)
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RhizoANT and email
The other day Rebecca posted on her blog and asked how we (I think she meant other RhizoANT collaborators) view email . How is email different from other technologies that we use to communicate with one another for various projects. In a previous RhizoANT post I wrote about (what seemed to be) our main vehicle for communication, the Google Doc. Of course, as Rebecca points out we also used email to discuss some topics off the record, sort of like the sidebar that lawyers have with the judge in a court case. Just to kick off I'll start from the stance that I don't hate email. I do my best to be at inbox-zero. It never really happens for me, but I do my best. At any given time I have anywhere from 5-10 email messages that need my attention. As I respond to them, I archive them (no need for filing, just hit archive in gmail!) While I have access to Google Inbox I have opted to not use it. I prefer the look, feel, and functionality of ...
Wave goodbye to Google Wave, say hello to...
OK, this isn't really news, but the news is our all over the interwebs - Google will no longer be developing Wave as a stand-alone product, and will keep the service up and running until the end of the year - it will also provide a way for people to get their data off Google Wave. I have to say that I really enjoyed messing around with Google Wave. I got an early beta invite, I invited some friends, but the mistake was that I invited people that are gadget geeks like me, but we don't normally collaborate! This Wave was really a bit useless for me because the people that I invited were people whose interactions with me would not push me to use the service! Google because open for everyone's use this past spring, but by that time I hadn't really thought of uses for Wave. In a recent comment in InsideHigherEd, I saw that people were using Wave as a replacement for the Bulletin Board System within the LMS (learning management system). What a brilliant idea! I think...