October 2011

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpbkdeyFxZw] More on Connectivism from George Siemens -Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age

Personal Development

SMART Goal-setting for the 21st Century

nancyrubinOctober 12, 2011October 12, 2011

I was doing some research today on goal-setting. Many people use the SMART acronym to help define the goal-setting process. It helps to develop goals that are: Specific - significant,...

Ed Tech Education Learning

Writing Across the Curriculum: Classroom Activities

nancyrubinOctober 11, 2011September 13, 2015

Effective writing activities can help students learn any type of content better. I found a great list of resources from Ohio State University on incorporating writing into lesson plans. I...

Education Literacy

Douglas Kellner: New Media and New Literacies

nancyrubinOctober 10, 2011

If you haven't read this article, you should. New Media and New Literacies: Reconstructing Education for the New Millennium Douglas Kellner At the same time that we are undergoing technological...

Education Learning

National Writing Day – Oct. 20th

nancyrubinOctober 7, 2011

The Learning Network: Why I Write: A Celebration of the National Day on Writing, Oct. 20 Why do you write? With our partners, we're inviting the world to answer that...

content Content Marketing Ed Tech Education Social Learning

Content: The “Stickier” The Better

nancyrubinOctober 7, 2011September 22, 2020

The book, “The New Digital Shoreline: How Web 2.0 and Millennials Are Revolutionizing Higher Education” by Roger McHaney has some really interesting ideas. In Chapter 1, McHaney references Malcolm Gladwell’s...

Month: October 2011

The Network is the Learning

SMART Goal-setting for the 21st Century

Writing Across the Curriculum: Classroom Activities

Douglas Kellner: New Media and New Literacies

National Writing Day – Oct. 20th