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My ETMOOC Intro: Creating Great Things Through Collaboration

By Ben Wilkoff January 18, 2013 July 24, 2016

This is my introduction for #etmooc in which I use a whole bunch of public domain videos in order to illustrate what I am talking about (sometimes with better results than others).

I’m excited about this course and the people that I will meet and collaborate with as a result. I also wanted to make sure that I emphasize just how much I believe we owe the past for our understanding of teaching and learning. In our rush to create a connected MOOC community, I am interested in figuring out the human and timeless elements of education. The good, and not merely the new.

Also, hat tip to Alan Levine for giving me the idea of using public domain footage. Check out the ds106 course video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIJ-FsZ_K5g

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Updating the Podcast

By Ben Wilkoff January 14, 2013 January 14, 2013

So, I realized as soon as I started this Reflective Practice Vlogging Project that I would at some point have to update my podcast feed. It has mostly laid dormant since 2009, but I still go back occasionally and listen to those ideas and gain new insight from the iTunes feed. …

What we are capable of now.

By Ben Wilkoff November 23, 2012 November 23, 2012

I am constantly struck with an awareness of what is possible. That I am now capable of creating almost anything at any time: value, context, or insight. Art isn’t for isolated spaces anymore. It is democratized. It is in our hands. The creative class is us. The only thing stopping …

Tweet from Google Calendar (because it's awesome)

By Ben Wilkoff March 8, 2012 March 8, 2012

I have been playing around with http://ifttt.com for a while now, but I hadn’t used all that many of their channels (their inputs and outputs for creating amazing workflows). Today, I found one that I REALLY like. Imagine this: You are managing a Twitter account with a bunch of different …

Readability

By Ben Wilkoff March 5, 2012 March 5, 2012

I have been doing a little exploring this morning on Readability, which is a platform to save web articles and blog posts for later reading (without all of the ads, images, and other clutter). Formerly, it was a paid service so I hadn’t used it very much. But, they just …

Doing Usability and Design Testing Remotely

By Ben Wilkoff February 29, 2012 February 29, 2012

I have been looking for a number of ways to do usability and design testing today so that I can validate the direction I am headed for a few sites I’m working on. It is my opinion that the more eyes I have on the things I am working on, …

Host a Learning Open House

By Ben Wilkoff February 22, 2012 February 22, 2012

I’m not sure where this idea came from, but I wanted to get it out before I moved on to the next thing: Wat if we encouraged everyone we knew to host “Learning Open Houses”, in which they would demonstrate exactly what they were learning and how they were learning …

#OpenInnovation and #CoCreation

By Ben Wilkoff February 14, 2012 February 14, 2012

I have been researching two terms that are heavily used in the development and innovation communities to speak about their processes and ways in which to include the user in development: Open Innovation and Co-Creation. These terms have been around for a little while, but they are more recently being …

Start Google Documents or Upload Files to Google Docs with an email.

By Ben Wilkoff January 31, 2012 January 31, 2012

Google decided that emailing to start a Google Doc wasn’t a service that enough people were using, so they discontinued it sometime in 2009. While I didn’t use it all of the time, I found it incredibly useful. And ever since, I have been looking for a way to do …

What I'm Learning: How to make a secondary Google Calendar into a primary Calendar on iCal

By Ben Wilkoff November 3, 2011 November 3, 2011

Calaboration (Mac) – Download: So, while there are many other ways to get Google Calendar to sync with iCal, it always makes your secondary Google Calendars into delagates. The only way to make those secondary calendars into primary ones in iCal is to use this older program (created by Google). …