I Don't Talk to Frank Anymore

The OpenCourseWare Consortium announces today the first annual Open Education Week from March 5-10, 2012.

The only three true job interview questions are:

1. Can you do the job? 2. Will you love the job? 3. Can we tolerate working with you?

That’s it. Those

Testing out a new app - Bundlr

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The acts include blindfolding children and feeding them his own semen in his classroom…WTF!

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1.  Change your perspective.  All action comes from a conscious change in the way you think.

2.  Fire first, then aim.  The spontaneous outpouring of ideas and concepts shouldn’t be interrupted by cold calculations of excessive reason.  You’ll have time later to filter your thoughts.

3.  Trust your gut.  You consciousness is actually a small part of the total neural input to your brain.  It’s only 1/1,000,000.  There is a richness beneath the surface of mind that is available. Some call it intuition.

4.  Don’t be afraid.  Fear is the poison to creativity.  Be bold and reckless.

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Breaking down the barriers to knowledge creation

Hope they don’t hire Cyberdine

Tame your frenzy

Frenzy is an emotional state, a feeling of being a little (or a lot) out of control. It is often underpinned by anxiety, sadness, anger, and related emotions. Emotions are processed by the amygdala, a small, almond-shaped brain structure. It responds powerfully to negative emotions, which are regarded as signals of threat. Functional brain imaging has shown that activation of the amygdala by negative emotions interferes with the brain’s ability to solve problems or do other cognitive work. Positive emotions and thoughts do the opposite — they improve the brain’s executive function, and so help open the door to creative and strategic thinking.

The last 7 days have served as a shining example of how Twitter significantly impacts my teaching, learning and professional development. A sampling my week’s Twimpact:

• I attended an inspiring TED Talks salon event that I found out about via Twitter. Had I managed to learn about it through other means, it would have been after the tickets were sold out.
• I read dozens of articles and blog posts that were shared by the people I follow, 22 of which were helpful enough that I bookmarked them for future use. I copied the links and shared via email 3 of these articles with certain teachers and administrators in my building.
• I read 12 tweets that I thought could be valuable to others and were worth Re-tweeting (sharing) to my followers.
• I learned about 2 apps that I downloaded to my iPad and believe will be very helpful.
• I learned a new trick for the Promethean Board that I never would have known was possible.
• I reconnected with a teacher friend and brilliant education mind with whom I had not spoken in 18 months. It led to a phone call and awesome conversation that I already know will impact a lesson for my students later this week.
• I had conversations with 16 other educators, many of whom I’ve never met in person.
• I had two former students reach out to share with me what is going on in their lives.
• I found out about a webcast hosted by an MTV VJ in Mexico, from which I discovered two new bands whose music I could share with my students.
• I connected with the lead singer of one of said bands who has agreed to Skype with one of my classes about life in Lima, Peru.
• I connected with a Venezulean baseball reporter who has also committed to a Skype conversation in which he will provide a season preview of the Colorado Rockies and take my students’ questions about the team in Spanish.
• And, so as not to leave out the celebrities, I favorited 8 tweets by Spanish-speaking artists that used the same vocabulary that my students were studying so as to provide them with examples of Real World, in-context use of our target learning.

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… During the Judiciary Committee’s markup of the bill in late December, Keep the Web Open streamed the hearing feed and paired it with a Twitter stream of commentary from folks watching along at home.

Now is the time to plan for the Centennial Celebration, and we’re starting by gathering suggestions for events, activities and more.

You can share your ideas using on the centennial webpage. There will also be meetings on campus and we’ll ask for suggestions at upcoming alumni events.

• (Job #12-02) Associate Vice President for Distance and Extended Education
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Anti-social presence

“The trailer started shaking and we were gone,”

NanoGong provides a very simple and transparent voice support for Moodle. Using a NanoGong activity and a NanoGong filter NanoGong provides two different types of voice support for Moodle.

• An extended HTML editor which supports voice-enriched content
• A NanoGong activity which allows students to submit voice messages to their teachers

Transcribed and translated at dotSUB. Nice

I tweeted a question earlier today wondering if we are (re)creating information silos. Guess Twitter’s answer is a resounding “Yes”

Shakespeare goes viral

“There are already today so many technologies that have so much potential if they are used appropriately,” Wiley said. “We need fresh thinking. We’ll find pragmatic ways to move this stuff into practice.”

Are we (re)creating silos of information again?

Technology for social good