Posts tagged with "Blog"

Yesterday, Storify announced the retirement of its Storify service. This leaves a lot of users, including myself, with Storify stories linked into their blog sites and nowhere to host them when the service closes. Storify has provided an export feature, which can output a whole Storify store as a static HTML5 webpage, and GitHub provides a way to host static websites via its free GitHub pages feature. I, therefore, yesterday tweeted about a proof of concept trial:

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/940677138415607808

Today, I've created a simple video to show how it was done.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jjXsBkJpA0

I'll be archiving my own collection of stories over the next few days and updating the links on this blog. To see my collection, visit cpjobling.github.io/stories.

This solves the problem for historical tweetchats. We, as a community, now need to find a new way to curate our future chats!

Today, was day one of the 2017 ALT Winter Conference (#altc) and I was supposed to chair the 10:00 am session "The Great Sussex Podblast" to have been delivered by Pete Sparx, George Robinson and Tab Betts from Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) at the University of Sussex. Unfortunately, problems with the Conference Webcasting platform (Blackboard Collaborate Ultra) and it's back up (Blackboard Collaborate Classic) meant that the session had to be cancelled. Hence, my first opportunity to moderate a webcast of any kind passed me by! The guys did, however, create a video, slides (bit.ly/podblast-altc) and you can hear the Podblast podcasts here: soundcloud.com/teachingwithtech/sets/great-sussex-podblast-digital.

In other events, there were five tweet chats. I was able to participate in VLE Minimum Standards—Lessons from the Sector (hashtag: #UCISAVLE) and watch the #altc blog showcase (hashtag: #altcshowcase).

I then had a meeting to attend so I will need to catch up with the other sessions via the webinar recordings and wait for the storify versions of the tweetchats:

• • “Player Two has entered” – Learning through console-based video games (hashtag: #consolesDGBL_ALT)
  • Learning by numbers: how can analytics help educators? (hashtags: #learninganalytics #altc) and
  • Open educational practice: #oep A DIY manifesto (hashtags: #altc #oep).

I will have more time tomorrow to attend the live sessions.

Though signed up to the EdX Course in good time, I've only just today, already half-way through week 2, gotten around to exploring the resources and activities for Week 1 of George Siemens' and David Wiley's (or is the attribution the other way round) open course on an Introduction to Open Education (hashtag #OpenEdMOOC).

On first viewing, the structure is interesting. The course is available as an xMOOC (with the possibility of an optional certification) on the EdX platform. In this version, there are weekly exercises, that are assessed  -- I've missed the deadline for the first one -- and the usual mixture of text, video, readings and discussion. This version will cease to be available, shortly after the course ends, unless the $59 certification fee is paid by the end of October. But there is also an xMOOC version, made available under a CC BY licence at URL linkresearchlab.org/openedmooc, with largely identical content.

So my initial question is why did George and David chose to present their course on Open Education in a format that is "Open" only in the sense of free to register and also in the form of an Open Education Resource that satisfies Wiley's 5Rs that come up in week 3. Another question that will be interesting to reflect on later, is where will the most useful course discussions take place? In the walled garden of the discussion boards on EdX (analogous to an institutional VLE) or in the wider network?

Personally, I expect to remain at least one week behind, so I already know that I'm likely to find the xMOOC version of the course more accessible. I also expect most of my contributions to be made via this blog and any discussion to take place on Twitter.

Today is Ada Lovelace Day - an annual celebration of women in STEM.

To mark the occasion I used Storify to make a personal curation of the tweets and blog posts that I liked on #AdaLovelaceDay 2017 (#ALD17)

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/917726864491335680

A big news story today was the QAA’s publication of advice for universities on how to combat contract cheating.

I made a Twitter moment:

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/917333938774913025

Important thread on work patterns in academia.

https://twitter.com/neuroimm/status/917140521524645900

I recommend that you read the whole thread!

Perhaps it reflects the US experience more than the UK, but I think the pendulum might be swinging this way in the UK too.

One of the replies

https://twitter.com/igordownunder/status/916749458016260097

prompted this response from the Times Higher’s Phil Baty

https://twitter.com/phil_baty/status/917278269669560320

What do you think?

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/911917026750418947

https://flic.kr/p/Yrprxv

I've been a teacher in engineering and technology for over 30 years. I love computing, coding, and ed tech. I spend hours on-line watching videos to increase my understanding of the technologies that I love. I love engaging with my personal learning networks, particularly #LTHEChat and #CreativeHE. I take part in MOOCs and am curious about teaching and learning and how to do it. I'm a course leader and want my students to have the best experience possible. I think I'm a good mentor to my colleagues and respected for my experience,knowledge and skills and in my institution. What I haven't cracked is translating my enthusiasm for my subjects into engagement in the classroom.

Part of this stems from my natural reserve. I am definitely not an extrovert. I don't find it natural to be the life-and-soul-of-the-party. Social occasions are difficult for me in real life. (Interestingly I'm more extroverted in social media.) So perhaps I don't come across as enthusiastic in the classroom setting. I'm better one-on-one and in small group contexts, but most of my students don't get to experience that.

So how do I improve? I'm hoping the Enthusiastic HE community can help!

This post was written for Enthusiastic HE as part of Santanu Vasant's September 13 #HEblogswap.

LTHEChat returned last night with a chat on Staff and Student "Digital" Development led by Simon Thompson (@digisim) supported by the new backroom team.

There will be a Storify but I thought I would provide a personal curation of the key conversations that I engaged with or noticed during and after the chat.

This is made easier by a Wordpress feature that converts the URL of a tweet into an embedded tweet.

Hint: click on the embedded tweets to access the conversations.

Question 1

https://twitter.com/LTHEchat/status/908043117919694852

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/908043411558735872

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/908045289008893952

https://twitter.com/mattcornock/status/908045218154532865

https://twitter.com/rbrtjnkns/status/908043715318607872

Question 2

https://twitter.com/LTHEchat/status/908045115482152961

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/908045881429164032

https://twitter.com/combatbb/status/908046271331618817

https://twitter.com/debbaff/status/908047172427546624

https://twitter.com/digisim/status/908047865120948229

Question 3

https://twitter.com/LTHEchat/status/908047670480175106

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/908048035300683777

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/908048215639052290

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/908048396736495616

https://twitter.com/ClareThomsonQUB/status/908050335515779072

Question 4

https://twitter.com/LTHEchat/status/908050905140002816

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/908051998431436802

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/908052874508292097

Question 5

https://twitter.com/LTHEchat/status/908052918825373697

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/908053458611261440

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/908055318789312512

Question 6

https://twitter.com/LTHEchat/status/908055433461616640

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/908055860852731907

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/908056049621524480

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/908056251749281792

https://twitter.com/cpjobling/status/908057168561233921

Other Conversations

https://twitter.com/EricStoller/status/907925717853327360

https://twitter.com/RosieHare/status/908043770100420608

My reciprocal post on Enthusiastic HE.