Saturday, April 10, 2010
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
To Bonnie From Minnesota with Love
This is for our friend Bonnie who's in California recuperating from partial knee replacement surgery. I just wanted to let you know that we were thinking of you and hoping for a speedy recovery. Here's some Minnesota tunes for you to listen to when you're feeling down or bored.
Playlist created through playlist.com
Playlist created through playlist.com
Saturday, February 27, 2010
rsp Conference: Merlot
Merlot: Teaching and Learning in a Networked World
Gary Sorenson, Northwest Technical College Bemidji State University
or
Merlot: Blazing the Trail and Meeting New Challenges in the Digital Age
Gary.sorenson@ntcmn.edu
Free Resource designed for faculty and learners/students of higher education
www.merlot.org
Learning Resources to make you a better teaacher, learner and business professional
Free membership
www.merlot.org/merlot/join.htm
Aug 5-10 in CA Merlot Conference
Gary Sorenson, Northwest Technical College Bemidji State University
or
Merlot: Blazing the Trail and Meeting New Challenges in the Digital Age
Gary.sorenson@ntcmn.edu
Free Resource designed for faculty and learners/students of higher education
www.merlot.org
Learning Resources to make you a better teaacher, learner and business professional
Free membership
www.merlot.org/merlot/join.htm
Aug 5-10 in CA Merlot Conference
Friday, February 26, 2010
RSP -The Good, the Bad, the Ugly...Fostering Creativity in the Classroom
Presentation by Jake Jacobson MCTC
What three principle ingredients do you feel make for a great (creative) XXX Please expand and explore your three points.
No guidance/contraint/rubric
manipulating, organizing, pruning and filtering
Forging connections: prioritization, judging, and the connecting
reframing
Aduction & Synthesis logical process and the cogninitive theory of sense-making
How do we know it's good. How do we measure?
Collectively design, develop and agree on rubric
Give up authority over the group's rubric
Have them each "find examples" then they view each other's finds, select top 3 examples.
I like my job so -- keep it appropriate
Linda Russel--maybe check with her about possibility of using D2L tool for student development of rubrics
Rubistar
wikis/google docs
contact Jake for handouts
What three principle ingredients do you feel make for a great (creative) XXX Please expand and explore your three points.
No guidance/contraint/rubric
manipulating, organizing, pruning and filtering
Forging connections: prioritization, judging, and the connecting
reframing
Aduction & Synthesis logical process and the cogninitive theory of sense-making
How do we know it's good. How do we measure?
Collectively design, develop and agree on rubric
Give up authority over the group's rubric
Have them each "find examples" then they view each other's finds, select top 3 examples.
I like my job so -- keep it appropriate
Linda Russel--maybe check with her about possibility of using D2L tool for student development of rubrics
Rubistar
wikis/google docs
contact Jake for handouts
Integrated Career Decision-Making Tools and Information-Shelia Cunningham McComb and Denise Felder
http://www.iseek.org/
www.iseek.org/education/workbased.html
How to write a Resume and Cover Letter: www.iseek.org/jobs/developresume.html
Sign up for newsletter. (quaterly)
BEST RESOURCE I'M FOR SURE GOING TO USE: O*NET : http://www.onetcenter.org/WIP.html?p=3
http://www.iseek.org/
www.iseek.org/education/workbased.html
How to write a Resume and Cover Letter: www.iseek.org/jobs/developresume.html
Sign up for newsletter. (quaterly)
BEST RESOURCE I'M FOR SURE GOING TO USE: O*NET : http://www.onetcenter.org/WIP.html?p=3
RSP 2010-Keynote Speaker, Linda Baer
Notes from Presentation, "Reimagining Higher Education for Student Success" by Linda Baer. Presented at the RSP Conference 2010, February 26.
(Power points slides can be found at: www.ctl.mnscu.edu)
What would things look like if you could have your class look like you wanted it?
"We are educating for careers that have not been created, using technology not yet invented to solve problems that haven't been discovered" Youtube video "SHIFT HAPPENS"-2009
Teach students to LOVE LEARNING
Redining the metrics of excellence for higher education
Transformation (see the heart of the enterprise--the aha moment)
Drivers of the call for transformative change:
*More at risk students
*achievement gap in performance
*flat persistence and graduation rates
*costs of remedial and devt ed
*Increasing demand for accountability
High growth of African American (to 24%), Asian (34%), Latino(28%) , Native American by 2020
Reading Scores, Math Scores--gaps between African American and Caucasian
Very significan gaps
Gaps between who particpates where across education system (open door policy brings in more)
Remediation continues to be an issue (why don't students come to us more prepared)
Growing the Investment in Serving Students
historically, higher ed was elitiest survival of the fittest
"Access without success is a REAL problem" As more and more people can in our doors we have to be more prepared, more innovation, more successful
Building Successful Action Analytics:
we need to learn from our learners
we need to elarn from our faculty
we need to learn from our business experts
we need to incest in what we know works
Detailed final projects reports for 2,291 Awards of Excellence (found linked through the CTL site)
Learning Communities
"YES YOU CAN BE SUCCESSUL!"--an important value to help students learn.
Pairing up the ESL course and general ed classes (even having two instructors in the same class)
KEEP ENERGIZING EACH OTHER!!!!
Status quo keeps us marching along when we need to {fly} :)
Share best practices--build collaborations and relationships (colleagues, campus/community, other educational systems, B & I, world)
We need new models--ones that allow us (us all) to be successful
President Obama by 2020 we will have highest percentage of graduates.
"Evidence gives you an argument for action. When you have it, you know what works and what doesn't. When you don't you have no path for improvement"
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
"If we don't do something what will happen"
d2l to better reflect outcomes
Longitudinal date system to track course patterns (what did the HS student take in HS and what in colllege, how successful were they?)
SIGNALS--project of Purdue University (red light, yellow light, green light "signals")
Customize, create a report, take action at milestones
Capella University--"First week determines everything" They can predict from the "first Friday evening" (predicts: grades, withdrawals, early drops)
www.decliningbydegree.org
Too expensive for us not to invest in the things that will help us (us all) be successful!
(Power points slides can be found at: www.ctl.mnscu.edu)
What would things look like if you could have your class look like you wanted it?
"We are educating for careers that have not been created, using technology not yet invented to solve problems that haven't been discovered" Youtube video "SHIFT HAPPENS"-2009
Teach students to LOVE LEARNING
Redining the metrics of excellence for higher education
Transformation (see the heart of the enterprise--the aha moment)
Drivers of the call for transformative change:
*More at risk students
*achievement gap in performance
*flat persistence and graduation rates
*costs of remedial and devt ed
*Increasing demand for accountability
High growth of African American (to 24%), Asian (34%), Latino(28%) , Native American by 2020
Reading Scores, Math Scores--gaps between African American and Caucasian
Very significan gaps
Gaps between who particpates where across education system (open door policy brings in more)
Remediation continues to be an issue (why don't students come to us more prepared)
Growing the Investment in Serving Students
historically, higher ed was elitiest survival of the fittest
"Access without success is a REAL problem" As more and more people can in our doors we have to be more prepared, more innovation, more successful
Building Successful Action Analytics:
we need to learn from our learners
we need to elarn from our faculty
we need to learn from our business experts
we need to incest in what we know works
Detailed final projects reports for 2,291 Awards of Excellence (found linked through the CTL site)
Learning Communities
"YES YOU CAN BE SUCCESSUL!"--an important value to help students learn.
Pairing up the ESL course and general ed classes (even having two instructors in the same class)
KEEP ENERGIZING EACH OTHER!!!!
Status quo keeps us marching along when we need to {fly} :)
Share best practices--build collaborations and relationships (colleagues, campus/community, other educational systems, B & I, world)
We need new models--ones that allow us (us all) to be successful
President Obama by 2020 we will have highest percentage of graduates.
"Evidence gives you an argument for action. When you have it, you know what works and what doesn't. When you don't you have no path for improvement"
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
"If we don't do something what will happen"
d2l to better reflect outcomes
Longitudinal date system to track course patterns (what did the HS student take in HS and what in colllege, how successful were they?)
SIGNALS--project of Purdue University (red light, yellow light, green light "signals")
Customize, create a report, take action at milestones
Capella University--"First week determines everything" They can predict from the "first Friday evening" (predicts: grades, withdrawals, early drops)
www.decliningbydegree.org
Too expensive for us not to invest in the things that will help us (us all) be successful!
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
eLearning Conference--"Virtually Being There: Strategies for Designing and Faciliatating Effective Online Group Projects"
Carolyn N Steveneson, Professor Communications Department Kaplan University
Organizing Virtual Teams
Project Design (instructor really has to develop a project that allows for professional collaboration experiences which needs to be well designed)
*Communication (systems need to be established that encourage ideas, questions, and concerns to be directed to the team members and the instructor)
*Virtual team member roles (organized around a set of team roles and responsibilities, roles need to be created that address both the talent and interest of the team members)
*Clear instructions for students
*Instructor Training
eCollege
(students take ownership by coming up with their own name and set up their own schedules and participate)
moodle
think about the limitations of your platform
HAS to be asynchronous
When you have a leader, let them be a leader
You really have to have the role very specifically outlined with job responsibilities
Connect it to the real world
Takes alot of work on the front end (continually needs revising)
Anxiety is high for students coming into working in teams or small group. You will have various levels of engagement, so talk about it up front
Talk about grading (rubric really helps ease anxiety) with participation element
Help students know they will not be penalized for lack of another groupmembers participation
Retention can be an issue --so design guidelines to address that
Equal distribution of work--so make sure tasks are delegated. Split up the project.
Knowing what the challenges were the first time helps improve the assignment the second time around
TRUST is key--must be built (might be easier said than done)
(noodus?)
Reinforce that they are learning LEADERSHIP skills (it's in their workplace, in their lives already so help make the connection more obvious for them)
Right to "fire" a team member and what are the steps to follow when you discover someone is not doing their task/work
Try to design a project where projects can be completed without necessarily needed all of the team members? (sections of a manual--if one section isn't there the manual can still be submitted)
Try to make project meaningful for them so there's more buy-in
(Yahoo groups)
(Survivor references--don't want to be leader too early)
Participation expectation. If you don't participate you have to do a different project in which you have to fulfill ALL pieces of the group projects. Whenever you STOP participating you get pulled from the group and are defined as being on your own project. The thought of having to do the ENTIRE project helps keep them involving.
Organizing Virtual Teams
Project Design (instructor really has to develop a project that allows for professional collaboration experiences which needs to be well designed)
*Communication (systems need to be established that encourage ideas, questions, and concerns to be directed to the team members and the instructor)
*Virtual team member roles (organized around a set of team roles and responsibilities, roles need to be created that address both the talent and interest of the team members)
*Clear instructions for students
*Instructor Training
eCollege
(students take ownership by coming up with their own name and set up their own schedules and participate)
moodle
think about the limitations of your platform
HAS to be asynchronous
When you have a leader, let them be a leader
You really have to have the role very specifically outlined with job responsibilities
Connect it to the real world
Takes alot of work on the front end (continually needs revising)
Anxiety is high for students coming into working in teams or small group. You will have various levels of engagement, so talk about it up front
Talk about grading (rubric really helps ease anxiety) with participation element
Help students know they will not be penalized for lack of another groupmembers participation
Retention can be an issue --so design guidelines to address that
Equal distribution of work--so make sure tasks are delegated. Split up the project.
Knowing what the challenges were the first time helps improve the assignment the second time around
TRUST is key--must be built (might be easier said than done)
(noodus?)
Reinforce that they are learning LEADERSHIP skills (it's in their workplace, in their lives already so help make the connection more obvious for them)
Right to "fire" a team member and what are the steps to follow when you discover someone is not doing their task/work
Try to design a project where projects can be completed without necessarily needed all of the team members? (sections of a manual--if one section isn't there the manual can still be submitted)
Try to make project meaningful for them so there's more buy-in
(Yahoo groups)
(Survivor references--don't want to be leader too early)
Participation expectation. If you don't participate you have to do a different project in which you have to fulfill ALL pieces of the group projects. Whenever you STOP participating you get pulled from the group and are defined as being on your own project. The thought of having to do the ENTIRE project helps keep them involving.
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