Month: <span>March 2013</span>

The Fellowship of Open Spokes: Which Day Are You?

We are starting a Youtube Channel dedicated to the idea that a small group of people (ideally 7) can change education forever just by being in a community of practice that continually tackles new problems and shares what it is that we are learning.

If you would like to become a part of this Fellowship, please leave a comment on this video. If you think you know someone who might be interested, share this video with them.

The way this works is that the 7 core people from the project will all be assigned a "day of the week" for which to post on. They will post to a designated Youtube Channel and throughout the week we will all comment and clarify and try and push the thinking on each new idea. Some weeks we will pick a theme to all tackle, and sometimes the themes will emerge organically because we will all respond to a particular video in succession.

While we will have the 7 people as a core group of vloggers, we will also need a whole bunch of folks to help fill in the gaps in our experience and to help push us to think deeper. Ideally, this would allow for more people to post their videos on the channel either as replacements for a particular contributor’s day or in addition to it.

That organization may sound pretty loose, but I want to leave it open to allow the Core members to decide how to organize the channel. I hope to hear from each one of you that reads these words as to how you would like to take part in the Fellowship.

Original Idea: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ty6x2wLW3c

Reflective Practice Vlogging Community: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/116395158372553895482

Oh, and here is the text from the video:

So, I want to start a fellowship for teaching and learning. To create the type of collaboration that sustains our practice rather than drains it. To reflect upon our learning process and build upon each other’s ideas, crafting a hub around which we all can learn.

We can all be spokes on a wheel, bound together by a single purpose, but always open what comes next.

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Blended Learning is Not a Spectrum.

This is the first time I have tried to envision blended learning as a set of ingredients to be blended together rather than a spectrum to traverse.

What are the most essential ingredients that you would have as a part of your Blend?

Reflective Practice Vlogging Community: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/116395158372553895482

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We Should Totally Make Hipster STEM Labs

John spencer did an amazing blog post on Hipster STEM labs, and why it might be cool to look at older technologies withint the learning environment. I am merely extending that idea and thinking out loud about what it could look lik.

What do you think it should look like? Would you be interested in taking a part of old technology within a STEM lab rather than trying to pursue newer technologies?

Original Blog Post: http://www.educationrethink.com/2013/03/hipster-stem-labs.html?m=1

Pencil Integration Blog: http://pencilintegration.blogspot.com/

Reflective Practice Vlogging Community: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/116395158372553895482

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Your Identity is Plural

I love the digital literacy conversation going on within the #etmooc, but I worry that the conversation around a digital identity is too singular in nature. We should be striving to make a plural identity, one that can change over time. And, we should strive to instill this concept of a plural identity into our learners from a young age.

Original Video: http://youtu.be/PAvs13jgQjI

Reflective Practice Vlogging Community: https://plus.google.com/communities/116395158372553895482

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90 Days of Good.

I’m trying to figure out how to tell 90 good stories about the learning going on around me, and I need a bit of help. How do you tell stories of goodness currently? How would you go about doing it if you were given the task of sharing the goodness widely and getting others to tell those stories with you?

I will be talking about this project more over the next few weeks, so get ready.

Reflective Practice Vlogging Community: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/116395158372553895482

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