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Behind the MOOC Curtain
It’s reality! The MOOC was approved and we are in the process of registering folks. Let’s see if I can recap the happenings. After several meetings with MSU support staff…this really is a team effort and I want to give … Continue reading
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Your Audience
I had a conversation with a fellow today who just entering the world of online teaching. He has a group of students in Kenya…mostly all Kenyan nationals…taking a course on the book of Mark. He told me his course is … Continue reading
More Than Online
Even though I teach online, I find time to enjoy the adventures Montana. Here’s a link to an interview I did with a local newspaper journalist who is spending a year creating a backcountry skiing blog.
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Examples of Alternative Assignments
In many of my online courses I allow students to demonstrate their learning through alternative assignments. Examples of these include powerpoint or keynote presentations, podcasting, pdfbooks and glogs. A special thanks to the students who granted me permission to use their … Continue reading
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Engaging Students in the Science & Engineering Practices
You may remember from previous posts that I work with the MPRES grant as the science education consultant. The goal of the grant is to prepare a group of teachers who are qualified to provide professional development to teachers of … Continue reading
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Framework/NGSS Toolkit
The MPRES (Montana Partnership with Regions for Excellence in STEM) Grant has completed the first draft of the MPRES Toolkit which will be used as a
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Nearing MOOC Oz
The discussions about the creation of a MOOC continue At this point it seems that the best option for us is to use D2L’s MOOC platform.
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Following the Yellow MOOC Road
I am hoping to move down the MOOC road soon. I am planning to create a MOOC for the Teaching Inquiry through Science and Engineering Practices course. The MSSE Program sees it as a marketing tool for the Program as … Continue reading
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XLi Presentation on Podcasting
Here’s a link to the presentation I did at the XLi conference in Billings in March 2013.
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