A few ideas to think about

Well, this is an easy post to write, regardless of the fact that I am R&Ding it. (Thats a term for another post, gotten from a wonderful presenter we've had at the site, Danna Messer .. she's on Facebook, go find her. She's simply awesome.)

The first idea that I wanted to share was Fifty Ways to use Graphic Novels in a classroom. Simple, yes. Also all in one place? Yes. Maybe something to be covered in another environment.

The second and third and next set after that ideas are from this book:


This is a text from an online course I looked at taking a few months ago. The course was upwards of 1200 bucks USD, and didn't do anything for my bottom line, so I didn't take it. I did, however, take down the title of the textbook .... and am now reading it chapter by chapter. It's very good at what it proposes to do, at least so far.

I'm in to page 87, and it's telling me I need to find an RSS feed to my iProducts in order to keep learning, keep developing as a person and as an employee.

the book also outlined a simple lesson plan for mobile learning. First it was to be short about ten minutes in length. Which is about what people can handle, in my opinion. After that it gets messy with attention span and other distractions ... like driving. As a general rule, this is just good lesson planning: Introduction, give a situation, discussion of the situation. At this time, that is where my efforts stop in the online community. What happens in this model is a short test with some feedback. And then a summary of what has been done. This last step I do a lot of already when I am in front of people. It is that second to last step which sometimes gets overlooked.

How ofter do people in a regular classroom get a chance to interact with the instructor? In an online learning situation, it is going to be a lot higher number of interactions. That is where learning takes place.

I need to find something out about Donald Kirkpatrick's learning evaluation model. It's on the interwebs somewhere.... and is mentioned in this book, too.

Lastly in the same chapter, there were mentions made of a number of webpages which educators can use to their advantage:

Blip.tv

Mobile learning

and for me a more relevant topic to think about is wowio.com

Free stuff for teachers, too.

Whoa, that looks like a pretty incredible post ... but it was all from an email I get posted to me daily... and a book I'm reading, too. I heart reading.

Finally, something that got emailed to me that is giving me a chuckle.