Reading Time: 10minutesSince my adolescence, I’ve never had a more than objective interest in religion. As a little kid, I trusted my Dad as I recited the Lord’s Prayer with him at night while he tucked...
Reading Time: 2minutesFor an online English course that I’m helping to develop, I’m now taking the Student role to do some careful usability and functionality testing. This is one of my assignments. Novel, Lesson 3: Activity...
Reading Time: 2minutesFor an online English course that I’m helping to develop, I’m now taking the Student role to do some careful usability and functionality testing. After many weeks of transforming course content from Word documents...
Reading Time: 3minutesThis post is the first in a new series of assignments for a free online course. This open course is called Why Openness in Education. The first assignment given in this course proposed: “Think...
Reading Time: < 1minuteEDCMOOC statistics These usage statistics were provided by faculty from Edinburgh University, who are running the E-Learning + Digital Cultures MOOC on Coursera: Total Registered Participants: 42874 Active Participants Over the Last 7 Days (“Active”...
Reading Time: 3minutesThe MOOC I’m taking, E-Learning + Digital Cultures, continues to unfold in front of me, gradually showing me new perspectives and more detail. But it’s not for the impatient… For me, being in a...
Reading Time: 2minutesI’m currently attending this MOOC: E-learning and Digital Cultures, offered through Coursera. Activity for Week 2 Themes explored this week included technological utopianism and dystopianism, and the idea of technological determinism. I watched these...
Reading Time: 3minutesLast year, I read an astute saying that said “If you didn’t pay to use a service, then you are the product being sold”. I feel like that kind of “buyer beware” maxim could...
Reading Time: 3minutesI get glimpses of learning happening all around me. Sometimes I’m part of the process, tutoring, advising or coaching someone through a new concept. Sometimes I’m just observing how others teach and learn, or...
Reading Time: < 1minuteUnit 6: Colour in Nature Continuing with my self-directed study of colour by following the telecourse Colour: An Introduction. (Check out all my colour assignments here.) Here are my notes from completing this unit...
