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Educational Technology Conferences for June to December 2014

Dwayne Harapnuik — June 9, 2014 — Leave a comment

Clayton R. Wright has released his the 31th edition of the conference list. The list below covers selected events focused primarily on the use of technology in educational settings and on teaching, learning, and educational administration. Only listings until December 2014 are complete as dates, locations, or URLs are not available for a number of events held after December 2014.
Educational Technology and Education Conferences #31 June to December 2014 Clayton R Wright.doc

Clayton has also passed on links to several documents that can be useful if you or your organization is looking at a new LMS or developing or reviewing online courses.

Selecting an LMS: Advice from an Academic Perspective, (April 2014) http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/selecting-learning-management-system-advice-academic-perspective?utm_source=Informz&utm_medium=Email+marketing&utm_campaign=EDUCAUSE including 305 questions or features to consider during the LMS selection process, http://www.educause.edu/visuals/shared/er/ero1434/selecting_lms.pdf

The companion article to the above is Developing and Reviewing Online Courses – Items for Consideration: http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/2011/11/developing-and-reviewing-online-courses-items-for-consideration/ It covers accessibility, organization, language, layout, goals and objectives, course content, instructional or learning strategies, learning resources, and evaluation.

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BCIT – Youtube Workshop

Dwayne Harapnuik — June 7, 2014 — Leave a comment

For a learning theorist and instructor there are few things more invigorating than working with a group of highly motivated faculty. I had one of those invigorating sessions today at BCIT when I had the privilege of conducting a Part Time Studies Instructor Professional Development Day workshop on the Power of Video. While we focused much of our time on using Youtube to create a context, introduce a concept, provide a bridge, introduce humour, create engagement, offer complex instruction and much much more, we also explored using other forms of media in combination with video to enhance the face2face, blended or online learning environment.

The following are all the Youtube clips used in the workshop as well as several of my favourites that we unable to view due to the lack of time. Note for next year—need to allocate at least 90 minutes or more for the session.

Workshop slide deck in PDF – Power of Video.pdf

How to instructions:

Introduce a concept

Start at 4:00 minute

Introduce a context & bridge into the subject

Start at 15:01

Introduce the Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG) for an online course

Introduce yourself and make a connection with students

How to instructions + pictures and step by step text

This link will take you away from this page so remember to use the back button to get back to the blog – http://www.pinkbike.com/news/tech-tuesday-bleeding-avid-brakes-2010.html

Humor & comic relief

Introduce the main point of an argument

Identify and define a concept

Introduce an controversial topic

Perhaps one of the best talks on learning & education – My favourite TED Talk

This just one of many TED talks that I recommend. If you go to TED.com and filter by “Most viewed” you will see Ken Robinson’s talks as well as Simon Sinek’s talk about Why and many more amazing talks.

This link will take you away from this page so remember to use the back button to get back to the blog – http://neomam.com/interactive/13reasons/

My blog post The Power of Media in informal learning offers the insights that I have found in using media to help my two sons in their pursuit of becoming professional downhill racers.

Finally, to easily download video clips from youtube and embed them into your Powerpoint or Keynote programs (educational acceptable copyright permitting–check with your department or library) you can use the site clipconverter.cc

Enjoy!

In Learning BCIT, media, Video - Wednesday Watchlist, youtube

CSLE Slide Deck & Video Links

Dwayne Harapnuik — June 5, 2014 — Leave a comment

After spending two full days in the Creating Significant Learning Environment (CSLE) workshop with some highly motivated faculty from School of Business at BCIT I am convinced that the future is very bright for BCIT students. Our primary focus was creating significant learning environments that would take advantage of technology to enhance learning. We explored using technology to enhance the face2face, flipped, hybrid or blended and fully online settings. All the technology related activities were grounded with well defined learning outcomes and we continually looked at the balance in aligning the outcomes with effective technology enhanced activities and assessments which confirmed the learning outcomes would be achieved.

The following are all the Youtube clips and related links used in the workshop as well as several of my favourites that we unable to view due to the lack of time.

CSLE slide deck in PDF – CSLE 2-Day SoB Workshop.pdf

How to instructions:

Introduce a concept

Start at 4:00 minute

Introduce a context & bridge into the subject

Start at 15:01

Introduce the Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG) for an online course

Introduce yourself and make a connection with students

Flipped classroom assignment
Link to Visible Learning assignment page

Humor & comic relief

Introduce the main point of an argument

Perhaps one of the best talks on learning & education – My favourite TED Talk

This just one of many TED talks that I recommend. If you go to TED.com and filter by “Most viewed” you will see Ken Robinson’s talks as well as Simon Sinek’s talk about Why and many more amazing talks.

My blog post The Power of Media in informal learning offers the insights that I have found in using media to help my two sons in their pursuit of becoming professional downhill racers.

Finally, to easily download video clips from youtube and embed them into your Powerpoint or Keynote programs (educational acceptable copyright permitting–check with your department or library) you can use the site clipconverter.cc

Enjoy!

In elearning CSLE, Video - Wednesday Watchlist, workshop

Lessons from Auschwitz: The power of our words – Benjamin Zander

Dwayne Harapnuik — June 4, 2014 — Leave a comment

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First Podium – What Can We Learn From It

Dwayne Harapnuik — June 2, 2014 — Leave a comment

This past weekend my son Levi came in second in his category and was on the podium for the first time. This is a significant milestone and hopefully the first of many such weekends.

This is also a learning opportunity for Levi and I sent him the following email this morning to help him learn from this experience:

Hey Levi

Great race! I was sure a proud dad seeing my son up on the podium. It’s all coming together. There is still lots of work to do in getting toward your ultimate goal. This is a reminder that you need to do a post race analysis so that you can learn from what went well and also help you identify where you can improve. Knowing what to keep on reinforcing and knowing what to adjust is going to help you save the seconds you need to move up. You need to go through the race turn by turn, stunt by stunt and analyze the whole race. This will help you to improve and make necessary adjustments and also give you a record to look back on for next year when you race the Ranch again. The following structure should help you pull your analysis together:

1. Identify and describe what went well. What lines worked? What things did you nail and why.
2. What can you do to improve? Where could you pedal more? Where should you have not pedalled (you mentioned hooking your pedal on one berm)? Where should you have stayed on the ground more? For example on the step up you got amazing air and landed at least 8 – 10 feet further than other riders but the time in the air cost you time because you weren’t on the ground peddling. DO NOT think in terms of what went wrong! Think in terms of what can I do to improve? What do I need to adjust? Remember you are fine tuning your skills and your performance.
3. Identify aspect about your bike and equipment you many need to adjust. For example we talked about going to Marzocchi to get their help in dialling in your suspension. Make note of key suspension issues that you need to talk to the Marzocchi people about. Consider your other equipment and race prep.
4. Identify nutrition and hydration issues that you need to remember for next year.
5. Finally consider your mental preparation. We just started working on your race preparation programming and have a lot more work to do on this aspect but you still need to identify what has worked so far and what else do you need to consider.

Once again Levi, I am proud of all the hard work you are putting into this and I assure you all this effort is going to pay off. You have come a long way and are so much closer to the end goal.

Luv
Dad

Why is it so important to encourage Levi to analyze his race? Without significant reflection there can be no improvement. Learning how to critically and analytically assess his performance is a skill that will carry over into so many aspects of Levi’s life. Learning to do this with something he loves addresses the issue of motivation–he is motivated to do this because he wants to race at the World Cup level and this is the way that he can get there.

Learning how to continue to motivate Levi to move in this direction is my learning challenge. It was a wonderful learning weekend and we have so much more to learning.

In Intentional Parent analysis, Learning, motivation