Sandra Sinfield’s blog. Sandra is a Teaching Assistant for the second run of Elearning and Digital Cultures mooc from University of Edinburgh via Coursera
http://lastrefugelmu.blogspot. Continue reading
Nov
12
Author Archives: EDC MOOC Activity 301-320
Mar
04
Learning outcomes for #edcmooc
From the discussion forums: Example 1
…what are the learning outcomes
for which this course was designed? Continue reading
Feb
28
My digital artefact for #edcmooc
For our final task, we had to create a digital artefact that deals with some of the issues we have worked during the course. Here is my digital artefact. I hope you enjoy! Continue reading
Feb
27
Reflections of e-learning and digital cultures
Picture created by fellow EDCMOOCer Cikgu Brian
As mentioned in an earlier post, I have now completed and submitted my final assessment. Continue reading
Feb
26
Digital Scouting: The Journey is the Reward
Well, soon marks the official end of the EDCMOOC journey. It has been a great voyage for me in which I have learned so much about ways in which to create and communicate with others digitally both inside and outside the classroom. The digital artifact that I am submitting as a final project was done on thinglink and reflects some of the unanswered questions that I have and that I hear out there from other participants and contributors about living and learning with technology. Continue reading
Feb
24
final draft of my mooc assignment #edcmooc
still working on the audio….but once i realised what i was making was yer everyday powerpoint things became a bit more focused
Feb
24
final assignment: all done, includes voice! #edcmooc
here it is, was lots of fun and thanks everyone who contributed valuable feedback
Feb
24
Final assignment
Well I have finally finished my final assignment and created my digital artefact for the edcmooc. I based it on how much education has changed and how technology has played a huge role in this.
Feb
23
first draft of my final mooc assignment #edcmooc
I haven’t added audio yet, still thinking about that….here it is, comments very welcome
[I’ve taken down the first draft, don’t need it any more… Continue reading
Feb
22
Final Assignment – Digital Artefact – EDCMOOC
My view of the future of education is to greatest extent utopian. I cannot see why we need to fear the future and the way in which technology will integrate into our daily lives.
Feb
21
Adding resources
I wanted to post you something about a book I had to read for my Argumentation Theory and Logic (I left the link, but I’m afraid it’s only in Spanish)…it was written by Jose Luis Molinuevo and it’s entitled Humanismo y nuevas tecnologías.. I really recommend it because it’s very easy to understand and I’ve remembered it since we started this #edcmooc course.
Feb
21
it’s a hippy trippy cMooc.Its not an xMooc #edcmooc
Very funny hatchet job on this edinburgh mooc by confused of cork…hurry if you want to read it, she’s going to take down the blog because “ït’s not interesting” . She would make a great theatre critic, i think, or a restaurant reviewer.
Feb
19
Is Google making us stupid?
We are now into week four of edcmooc and looking at transhumanism. The videos and readings, as always, are interesting and thought provoking. However, it was this article that I was drawn to as it is something I have often thought about. Continue reading
Feb
19
#edcmooc Looking to the future and metaphors for learning technology
Week 2 of e-Learning and Digital Cultures has moved from looking at past predictions and visions of technology to future-gazing about the digital world and how it will evolve. With the benefit of hindsight we can critque the utopian and dystopian visions of the future which have gone before but now we’re in the hot seat challenging our own perceptions of technological forces and their potential for use and misuse.
Feb
18
final week reflections #edcmooc
It’s a hot night in Melbourne, 23C, and I can’t sleep. Which is just as well, as I’m scheduled to join a google hangout at 4am…silly me, but I can’t resist the opportunity to play on google hangout and see how it compares to Skype.
Feb
18
¿La tecnología aplicada a la educación deshumaniza?
Esta tercera semana en el #EDCMOOC hemos tratado sobre “naturalidad” y “artificialidad” de las tecnologías y la interacción humana con éstas. Algunos de los vídeos que nos han ayudado a reflexionar han sido estos que podéis consultar a continuación: World … Continue reading
Feb
18
En la carrera para poner un ordenador en cada pupitre, las escuelas están olvidando la creatividad intelectual y el crecimiento personal – Monke #edcmooc #edmooces
Esta semana, en lugar de centrarme en los vídeos que nos han presentado en el #edcmooc querría centrarme en el artículo de Monke titulado “The Human Touch” publicado en 2004. Aunque haya pasado mucho tiempo desde su publicación, sus ideas podrían crear … Continue reading
Feb
13
I need a classroom as big as the universe #edcmooc
I’ve been interested to see this type of comment in some posts on facebook and in the forums, as a way of expressing support for the mooc idea. People who don’t want to be forced to work in groups of people they don’t like or read course materials they’re not interested in. I think the word might once have been “non-conformists”. Continue reading
Feb
11
We need to think about our future #edcmooc
This second week we need to look to the future with 4 new videos (those were excelent, like the past week ones). The 2 first videos “A Day Made of Glass 2” and ”Productivity Future Vision“ show us a perfect world where … Continue reading
Feb
10
serendipity: discovered a francophone mooc #edcmooc
discovered Christine Vaufrey on the forums, a french teacher who created the first french mooc last year. I normally wouldn’t have been browsing a thread called classroom practice, but what can I say…I did and Im glad
Christine Vaufrey
Lyon, France
Feb
10
heres me participating in a group voicethread #edcmooc
https://voicethread.com/share/4104932/
tell me if the sound is ok? Continue reading
Feb
10
whats a mooc? Its like the internet, only worse #edcmooc
At least on the internet people have put time, money and brainpower into making you want to visit, and making it easy for you to find the information you need…Im thinking banks, government (at least in Australia) some universities, and libraries. Admittedly there’s a profit motive. or a bums on seats motive:)
Feb
10
further to my post about what moocs remind me of #edcmooc
liked this quote
” But at this point, MOOCs are simply more content in an already crowded content world. Admittedly, they will evolve and undoubtedly produce excellent content, but they have some distance to go before they replace the collaborative, team-based learning over-seen by expert guidance that is the hallmark of our university”
Feb
10
my first attempt using screenr #edcmooc
Feb
10
EDCMOOC Week 2: MIA
It’s happened already. A conspicuously absent blog post for the second week of #EDCMOOC. We hear a great deal about MOOC completion (or more pertinently, non-completion) rates, but truth be told I don’t think it matters, a sentiment echoed here by Donald Clark. Continue reading
Feb
07
here’s a few research links i found in a database yesterday #edcmooc
I was surprised when doing a database scan yesterday how little there seemed to be on moocs…mostly first person points of view and pieces along the lines of “we’ll all be rooned”said hanrahan…famous australian poem ..can’t recall who wrote it just off the top of my head. Banjo Patterson? Continue reading
Feb
07
More about the skills you need for online study: for Tatiana #edcmooc
I was thinking about the skills you need for online study and had to give a shout out to my old alma mater, Charles Sturt University..they specialise in distance education and they have some great resources that explain the skills you need They also offer some preparatory short subjects called Study Link to develop the study skills you’ll appreciate at university. Read the student comments, I think you’ll be impressed. Continue reading
Feb
07
mooc on learning analytics by george siemens feb 11th at canvas network #edcmooc
sure I joined up…how could I resist. I know nothing about learning analytics
Feb
07
what social media channels work best for this mooc? double click the pic to enlarge #edcmooc
Some of the stats are obvious…with 4000+ members the facebook group is way bigger than the google+ group at 1800, also i was late to the g+ party and dont post so much there. S0 top billing goes to facebook and search engines…with a few from within the coursera forums …and a smaller number from the #edcmooc news blog aggregator …but it hasn’t been working consistently ….Comments? Continue reading
Feb
07
E-humans, a new dystopian vision
As I wrote in my last post, this new way to learn has a lot of pros and a bit of cons.
This week resources made me think about the ways we can use in the future and what they would suppose to the traditional materials we are used to. Continue reading
Feb
05
#edcmooc The Trouble With MOOCs
I was very disappointed yesterday when I learned one of the MOOCs I’m taking was cancelled due to student comprehension problems and, let’s be frank, the technologically impaired.
Yes, I am simply saying how I feel. Continue reading
Feb
05
El futuro con el que todos soñamos de pequeños
Por fin he tenido algo de tiempo para participar en el curso #EDCMOOC y visualizar los vídeos que nos han propuesto y que os presentaba Anna en una publicación anterior. Esta primera parte del curso se basa en la reflexión … Continue reading
Feb
05
Week 2 of the EDC MOOC – E-learning and Digital Cultures MOOC #edcmooc
This is week 2 of the eLearning and Digital Cultures Course on Coursera, and I love every bit of content that it being presented. I try to work though it on the Monday, share my ideas on Monday afternoon, and I can only hope that by Tuesday, when others read it, it makes as much sense to them as it made to me here in my little office typing away.
Feb
05
‘Opening education’=knowledge?
Sometimes a bit difficult to understand but perfectly threaded with Eliot’s verses we have the Campbell lecture (material #edcmooc week 2). And we are asked to share our thoughts about the meaning of ‘opening education’.
Feb
03
example of a voicethread I prepared earlier #edcmooc
https://voicethread.com/share/3918837/
I kid you not, it took me about a week at an hour or so a day and about five attempts before I felt I knew what to do with voicethread. Continue reading
Feb
03
#edcmooc There’s no there there!
Ok, so I missed a day…important to take time out when you feel like it, the mooc will still be there when you come back! Yesterday I had a facebook chat with a person from England who’s thinking of putting some courses up on udemy…you pay them for the course platform…and take it from there, and I helped a lady on facebook as she created her first blog….google kept rejecting her suggestions for a name for her blog which caused some frustration. Continue reading
Feb
03
My information management secrets: For Helli #edcmooc
notice I’m using a pencil? Yes, thats a guitar in the background.
Feb
03
here comes the weekend #edcmooc
So the end of week one and now its the weekend. I have half decided to drop the other mooc I was enrolled in, although I’m interested might wait till its ready for prime time. Not very impressed with the Coursera platform, others have made the case against it much better than I could. Continue reading
Feb
03
Las dos caras de la tecnología #edcmooc
A raíz del curso #edcmooc, y tal como comentaba en un anterior post, una de las primeras actividades que hemos tenido que realizar en el curso es la visualización de 4 vídeos que muestran de diferentes maneras la relación o … Continue reading
Feb
03
Motivos por los que nos apuntamos a un MOOC
En una entrada anterior (esta) os informamos que Esther y yo nos habíamos aventurado a cursar nuestro primer MOOC, pero muchos de vosotros os preguntaréis cuáles fueron nuestros motivos. Así que aquí va un listado de nuestros 10 motivos más importantes por … Continue reading
Jan
31
#EDCMOOC Idiocracy: A Dystopian Technology Story
It seems there are quite a few films that are actually dystopian stories about technology gone awry. I was initially torn between discussing Terminator where we make the machines so smart, they take over, or Idiocracy, where the machines do everything, people become dependent on them, and as a result the people become stupid. I think I’ll choose Idiocracy. Continue reading
Jan
31
#edcmooc Can Online Learning Be Overwhelming?
I think this is a very real concern. In all the pre-course prep I’ve watched fellow learners build everything from Wiki’s, Twitter accounts, YouTube accounts and blogs, to Google Plus groups, Facebook groups, and everything else. What I found even more interesting is that I already had accounts in place to take advantage of all of these things. Continue reading
Jan
31
Coming Soon: EDCMOOC
6 days to start with E-learning and Digital Cultures!!
I wonder how it will be… I’m a bit afraid of using all tools we could use, because some of them I’ve never use before…but I’m sure I will learn how to use it very soon and I could enjoy the course. Continue reading
Jan
31
Internetless
We are due to lose out broadband any day and today was supposed to be the day. Imagine my joy when I got home and found it still connected. In fact the joy I felt was indescribable. Continue reading
Jan
31
Gearing up for #edcmooc
‘e-Learning and Digital Cultures’ is a 5 week mooc (massive online course) organised by Coursera in association with the University of Edinburgh (my alma mater). There’s less than a week to go before it starts but there’s already a buzz of pre-activity on Twitter, Facebook and Google+ so looking forward to how it pans out before mooc fatigue sets in.
Jan
31
#EDCMOOC Film Discussion: My Thoughts
Film 1: Bendito Machine III
What is this film suggesting are the ecological and social implications of an obsession or fixation on technology? Do the film’s characters have any choice in relation to their technologies? Continue reading
Jan
31
Learning or just MOOC-ing about?
It early days as it’s only day 3 of #edcmooc but I wanted to share some personal reflections to date on the value of this kind of course for me as a learner. What’s been most interesting so far hasn’t been the course content (stimulating though that is) but observing my and others’ motivations for doing this course and the learning experience.
Jan
31
Day 3 week 1 e-learning mooc #edcmooc Where’s the action?
Well here I am having promised a post on prensky digital natives etc and something about technological determinism. Why did I do that? My thoughts have moved on. Continue reading
Jan
31
Dystopian story example
We were asked to share some thoughts about a utopian or dystopian film and that’s why I’m here today 
The last one I read was Nineteen Eighty Four (George Orwell).
Jan
31
#Edcmooc Utopia/dystopia – Utopia
Following on from my post yesterday I observed something in a meeting today which adds to the idea of technology being a vital and positive thing and helps to improve our lives. As we sat round the table most of us (99%) were using an iPad, smart phone or laptop.
Jan
31
Day 2 Week 1 of e-learning and digital culture: finding my feet #edcmooc
Day 2 : had a quick look at the digital immigrant reading: (…prensky?)
saved all the week 1 readings to a folder in case theres an internet problem
Jan
31
#Edcmooc Utopia/dystopia – technology
We have now started our EDCMOOC course and began by looking at short films where utopia/dystopia are the themes.
This is a relevant question for me this week as we without broadband for a while until I caved in and paid to top up my iPad. Continue reading
Jan
31
Isms and opias – big words for a Monday
As #edcmooc gets underway today I’ve been familiarising myself with the course themes and resources for this first tranche of the curriculum. The focus for the first two weeks is on utopias and dystopias in digital cultures. This socio-cultural starting point is an interesting way of engaging thinking around the role of technology in shaping social change. Continue reading
Jan
31
Must blog
Since starting EDCMOOC I have started blogging but I find it difficult. Especially when I read others which are are so well produced. I would normally have given up at this point but because of the course I feel I should persevere. Continue reading
Jan
31
Week one of the EDC MOOC – E-learning and Digital Cultures MOOC #edcmooc
The Internet can really level the playing field both in life and in education. Yes, I do know that we are not all online yet, but we are getting there. Continue reading
Jan
31
Day 1 of Elearning and digital cultures mooc :Social media overload #edcmooc
The course opened today and I was briefly overwhelmed by all the social media channels available as people scrambled to join networks and break off into subnetworks, particularly on Facebook. I had to learn how to join google plus and ask for help on one of the facebook pages to add my rss feed for this blog to the edcmooc news page.
Jan
31
EDCMOOC and my first blog post.
Here we go. I’m Jo (although most friends call me “Stroud”), a Learning Technologist who has recently moved home to London and the London School of Economics after 8 wonderful years up in Sheffield. I’ve been working in e-learning, learning technology, technology enhanced learning – whatever you want to call it – for roughly 4 years. Continue reading
Jan
31
Inicio de MOOCs en Coursera #edcmooc
Tanto Esther (@evazgu) como yo misma (@ajubete) estamos muy contentas porque hoy hemos iniciado nuestros primeros MOOC.
El curso que compartimos las dos es el de “E-learning and Digital Cultures” ofrecido por The University of Edinburgh. Continue reading