The post on the Flipped Classroom that I wrote earlier this week for Bentley’s Impact blog was published today by The Huffington Post.
Excited.
(Note: My screenshot is adapted to show a bigger HuffPost banner and cropped from the Huffington Post page.)
I remember a conversation with my former college calculus teacher, Ray McGivney, when he visited at Bentley last year, and said “I’m teaching in a classroom with tables.” Who knew one conversation would get me hooked? Thanks, pal.
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And here’s what Google’s home page looks like now.
Sometimes I wonder who reads my blog. Recently I received an email message from Jennifer Funk, a writer for EdCetera. She saw a blog post about how we used VoiceThread to create an interactive lecture on cloud computing in IT101 last year, and asked more about it. I told her how we also used VoiceThread in the CIS Sandbox and with my colleagues in Romania. She wrote a blog post, “How a Prof Used 1 Tech Tool to Build 3 Co-Learning Spaces” which appears in the EdCetera blog, a blog about educational technology. Thanks for sharing the story!
I was teaching about Cloud Computing in IT 101 – or maybe I should say my students were teaching about Cloud Computing in IT 101. I posted a slide deck up on VoiceThread, and asked them to read enough about the topics that they could add two comments to the slides. Together, they would come up with the lecture. They had to watch the collaboratively constructed lecture before class, and then in class, we talked more about some of their comments, clarifying buzzwords they might have used, or discussing questions that arose as a result of their readings and presentations.
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Pat Sendall, Anthony Serapiglia, and I are presenting on Social Media: Beyond Facebook and Twitter at a panel at ISECON 2011.
Earlier at ISECON I presented a paper on The Silver Lining: A Teaching Case Using Google Docs to teach Cloud Computing Concepts.
Slides and a Mind Map on Social Media and Web 2.0 Tools after the jump.
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Bill VanderClock and I spent the day making a 5 minute video describing the four IT101 options available to incoming freshmen at Bentley. The video will be played at orientation five different times. I wonder if it would have been easier to give the presentation in person. Lucky for me, we didn’t save the blunders.