I’m currently subscribed to take an online distance course on “Designing a New Learning Environment“, given by Professor Paul Kim from Stanford University. I’m very (!) excited about all the things that I will be able to learn from this unique experience. I’ll be blogging about it here. So stay tuned!
LightningTalk @HaxoGreen2012 “Adventures in Technology-Supported Running”
I’ll be giving a LightningTalk this afternoon @HaxoGreen2012 on my recent “Adventures in Technology-Supported Running”, and just uploaded my slideshow here: http://www.slideshare.net/rreuter/adventures-in-technologysupported-running Of course, you won’t have the voice, but I guess you can may sense of it nevertheless. Feel free to watch it and give me comments… after that…
Going to class – again
I’ll start going to class again, this week… but this time, it’ll be a virtual class… a course offered through ISTE on “Research to Practice in Educational Technology”. I will get the course materials and have interactions with peers and teachers via a moodle online course. Here is the course…
Little things can make me happy…
I’m happy 🙂 I got a weekly-update newsletter email from the Peer Instruction Network, that I recently joined and they quoted a (“fantastic”, sic!) question I’ve asked when joining the network… so that other members can give me their answers, via a special POLL… how cool’s that!!! II. Social Sciences…
Project AoW: Becoming a Wikipedian – Concept 2 – Lost Post
I had drafted a post on concept 2 that I had been looking up on a Wednesday morning on Wikipedia, but that post got lost, somehow 🙁 But I still know what it all was about, even though I cannot remember all the details of the text that I had…
Project AoW: Becoming a Wikipedian – Concept 1
I’m giving a lecture today about teaching with multimedia and hypermedia and I was thinking about looking up examples of such educational media on Wikipedia… To my big surprise, I had to discover that “educational media” was not (and still is not) defined and explained on Wikipedia! I do think…
Project AoW: Becoming a Wikipedian – Day 1
Today, I decided to install the following pro-active routine for my contribution to Project AoW: Once a week, let’s say every Wednesday morning during my commute to Walferdange, I look up a concept on Wikipedia that is on my mind that morning (for whatever reason), and check if an entry…
Project AoW: Becoming a Wikipedian – Introduction
I’ve recently decided, together with my college and friend Benoît Majerus, to answer the call issued by the Wikimedia Foundation, asking academics to actively contribute to the largest, free, online encyclopedic repository of human knowledge in the known universe that we all resort to when we want to look up…
CCK11: MOOC on “Connectivism and Connective Knowledge”
I just got an invitation to the CCK11 event on facebook, via the group on connectivism and connective knowledge: Connectivism and Connective Knowledge is an open online course that over 12 weeks explores the concepts of connectivism and connective knowledge and explore their application as a framework for theories of…
OpenLibrary: I’m starting to contribute…
The OpenLibrary project aims at creating a web-page for each and every book (paper-based and digital books) that has been published by any member of humanity. http://openlibrary.org/ I’ve started to contribute my modest share of time by referencing the books I’ve been editing for the last few years, containing my…