As a community of professionals in higher education, here are a few terms you may have heard during the past year: MOOC, flipped classrooms, gamification, blended/hybrid courses and active learning. You'll hear all these terms again, and more in Anant Agerwal's talk "Why MOOCs Still Matter".
If you participated in a previous version of 13 Things, you may recognize Anant Agerwal; we learned about his "Circuits & Electronics" course at MIT that had 155, 000 participants! Agerwal now leads edX , a nonprofit online learning venture of MIT and Harvard.
In this talk, Agerwal highlights what he sees when he re-imagines education: what do you see? Do you agree with the shifting dynamics of our learners? Is a blend of online and in class learning an ideal possibility? Does blended learning have a place in the small, liberal arts college? When you imagine Coe in ten years or twenty years, do we look any different than we do today?
Showing posts with label digital. Show all posts
Showing posts with label digital. Show all posts
Monday, June 9, 2014
Monday, June 2, 2014
Week 3: Personal Digital Archiving
As a digital immigrant (a person born before the widespread use of digital technologies) my amateur photography habits fall into two distinct categories: BD and AD. Before Digital and After Digital.
Before Digital: I bought spools of 35MM film for my consumer-grade point and shoot film camera, taking careful aim and shooting no more than one or two pictures of each action or element I wanted to capture. I would then take my roll of 24 soon-to-be-pictures to the nearest developing center, and pay around ten dollars to have the film developed. I'd receive one (or two if it was a free doubles day!) copies of each photograph in a neat little envelope, with negatives tucked neatly inside their own sleeve. If I was lucky, about half the photos would be decent. Sometimes I'd tuck the good photos into photo albums or I'd stick the photo envelope into a box made just for the purposes of storing the photo envelopes. I'd occasionally mail (via US Postal Service) photos to friends and family.
After Digital: My initial investments are up front; in a digital camera or phone or tablet or almost any digital device that includes a camera. No longer do I pay for actual film and I rarely pay to have photos developed. I take 10-15 shots of everything, knowing I should get at least one decent smile from my kids out of the 15 attempts. My photos are no longer in a box or a magnetic page photo album (did anybody else hate those magnetic cellophane pages?), but they are on Flickr, Instagram, Facebook, Picasa/Google+ albums, on CDs in the bottom onf my desk drawer, and in my iPhotos application or the Nikon Digital Keeper that came with my camera. Frequently, I email or text photos to friends and family.
In both BD and AD times I've enjoyed looking through hard-copy photo albums or boxes and through digital photo albums. My kids don't seem to differentiate much between the two; a few weeks ago 5-year-old Cam asked if we could look at some pictures of him when he was little. I started to pull out his baby photo album (it was a between stage for me) and he said "no, on the computer" as if I'd made a silly mistake like looking for the milk in the cupboard instead of the fridge.
Our third thing is an article originally published last summer on NPR's All Tech Considered.
In The Digital Age, The Family Photo Album Fades Away by Heidi Glen addresses the generational preferences for the 'final' edition of your photos, but also encourages us to think like an archivist when it comes to our digital photography collections.
What do you do with your photographs? Are you archiving your life in photos? Have you determined a way to ensure the great images you're capturing today will be around for a lot of tomorrows? Share your thoughts on this article and your ideas and tips for preserving photos in the comments.
Before Digital: I bought spools of 35MM film for my consumer-grade point and shoot film camera, taking careful aim and shooting no more than one or two pictures of each action or element I wanted to capture. I would then take my roll of 24 soon-to-be-pictures to the nearest developing center, and pay around ten dollars to have the film developed. I'd receive one (or two if it was a free doubles day!) copies of each photograph in a neat little envelope, with negatives tucked neatly inside their own sleeve. If I was lucky, about half the photos would be decent. Sometimes I'd tuck the good photos into photo albums or I'd stick the photo envelope into a box made just for the purposes of storing the photo envelopes. I'd occasionally mail (via US Postal Service) photos to friends and family.
In both BD and AD times I've enjoyed looking through hard-copy photo albums or boxes and through digital photo albums. My kids don't seem to differentiate much between the two; a few weeks ago 5-year-old Cam asked if we could look at some pictures of him when he was little. I started to pull out his baby photo album (it was a between stage for me) and he said "no, on the computer" as if I'd made a silly mistake like looking for the milk in the cupboard instead of the fridge.
Our third thing is an article originally published last summer on NPR's All Tech Considered.
In The Digital Age, The Family Photo Album Fades Away by Heidi Glen addresses the generational preferences for the 'final' edition of your photos, but also encourages us to think like an archivist when it comes to our digital photography collections.
What do you do with your photographs? Are you archiving your life in photos? Have you determined a way to ensure the great images you're capturing today will be around for a lot of tomorrows? Share your thoughts on this article and your ideas and tips for preserving photos in the comments.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Welcome to 13 Things @ Coe
Welcome to 13 Things @ Coe! This is our 12 week overview of what Web 2.0 is really about. Some of you have a good idea (you're probably tweeting about it right now!), but you're looking for some new insights. Some of you haven't got a clue and are sick of hearing all this techie gobbledygook! Whatever your reason for joining, I hope you gain a better understanding of how this concept is changing the way we work, play and even educate.
To set the stage, please watch the "Did You Know? (Shift Happens)" video below. This video is in it's 4th version, and was actually created by one of Iowa's own, Scott McLeod. Scott is a professor at Iowa State, and is a well-known professional in the world of educational technology. I subscribe to his "dangerously!irrelevant" blog. Check it out.
So, we know our students are coming in with cell phones, iPods, laptops, Facebook accounts and more. We understand they are inherently different than we are in their use of technology. They were born with a remote in their hands, and they've never experienced not being connected. Think about the year after you left your parents' home; whether it was to go to college, join the military, moving in with friends and getting a job...most of us did not have a 24-hour-a-day connection to our parents and to our high school peer group. Most of us were not able to punch a button or two and get turn by turn directions, with landmarks, to our new homes or the closest pizza delivery place. Most of us might have been lucky enough to have a phone conversation with a future dorm or bunk mate, but we certainly didn't have access to multiple photo albums, a history of daily quips and comments, and insight into his or her likes/dislikes and friends. Author Marc Prensky ("Digital Natives/Digital Immigrants") calls us immigrants into this land of technology. Our younger counterparts, the digital natives, have spoken the language (technology) from birth. We can learn it, we can even master it, but we'll always have an accent, because we are, of course immigrants.
Whether you buy that or not, one thing we can't deny is the effect these technologies have on the economy. Personally, you have probably invested in a cell phone and the accompanying service package. Perhaps you have cable TV and a cable modem at your house. How did you choose these products? The video below, Social Media Revolution, is based on a book called Socialnomics.
Now that we've got some background and insight, let's get started!
THING 1: Building Your Blog
You'll use your blog to record your discoveries as you progress through the 13 Things. I recommend you use Blogger*, a popular free online blog hosting service that is easy to use.
Create a blog using Blogger takes just three steps:
To set the stage, please watch the "Did You Know? (Shift Happens)" video below. This video is in it's 4th version, and was actually created by one of Iowa's own, Scott McLeod. Scott is a professor at Iowa State, and is a well-known professional in the world of educational technology. I subscribe to his "dangerously!irrelevant" blog. Check it out.
So, we know our students are coming in with cell phones, iPods, laptops, Facebook accounts and more. We understand they are inherently different than we are in their use of technology. They were born with a remote in their hands, and they've never experienced not being connected. Think about the year after you left your parents' home; whether it was to go to college, join the military, moving in with friends and getting a job...most of us did not have a 24-hour-a-day connection to our parents and to our high school peer group. Most of us were not able to punch a button or two and get turn by turn directions, with landmarks, to our new homes or the closest pizza delivery place. Most of us might have been lucky enough to have a phone conversation with a future dorm or bunk mate, but we certainly didn't have access to multiple photo albums, a history of daily quips and comments, and insight into his or her likes/dislikes and friends. Author Marc Prensky ("Digital Natives/Digital Immigrants") calls us immigrants into this land of technology. Our younger counterparts, the digital natives, have spoken the language (technology) from birth. We can learn it, we can even master it, but we'll always have an accent, because we are, of course immigrants.
Whether you buy that or not, one thing we can't deny is the effect these technologies have on the economy. Personally, you have probably invested in a cell phone and the accompanying service package. Perhaps you have cable TV and a cable modem at your house. How did you choose these products? The video below, Social Media Revolution, is based on a book called Socialnomics.
Now that we've got some background and insight, let's get started!
THING 1: Building Your Blog
You'll use your blog to record your discoveries as you progress through the 13 Things. I recommend you use Blogger*, a popular free online blog hosting service that is easy to use.
Create a blog using Blogger takes just three steps:
- Create an account. Use your Coe email address (or a personal email, it doesn't matter). The "Display Name" can be anything you want. How you choose to identify yourself on your blog is your choice. You can blog under a screen name, anonymously, or as yourself.
- Name your blog. Be creative.
- Select your template. Once you've created your blog here are two important things to know:
- To add posts: the interface you will use to add posts, edit or change the set-up of your blog is accessed at http://www.blogger.com. Be sure to write down your login and password.
- To view your blog: Your blog address is http://(xxxx).blogspot.com (xxxx)=the unique identifier (name) you entered in Step 2. Be sure to also write down your blog address. If you run into questions or would like more information about blogs and using Blogger, check out Blogger's Quick Tutorial (just follow the orange arrows to learn more). Discovery Exercise:
- Get your blog set up
- Add TWO posts (I know, this is a long one...the next Thing will be shorter, I promise!)
a) Your first post: Write about anything you wish. You might explain why you are participating in 13 Things @ Coe, or about your previous experiences.
b) Your second entry: Blog about what interests you about Web 2.0. Watch the above videos for inspiration. - Email me (lstrosch@coe.edu) the name of your blog's address (for instance, this blog is coe13things@blogspot.com)
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