TLT-SWG: TGIF: Applying what we are learning about MOOCs, FridayLive: April 12

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TGIF: Applying what we are learning about MOOCs, FridayLive: April 12 Posted: 09 Apr 2013 05:31 PM PDT Read below for TGIF with links, or you can view TGIF on the Web...Click here Fourteenth issue, Volume     Six TLT Group TGIF 4.9.2013                   From TLT Group World Headquarters   How can we apply what we are learning from our     MOOC experience to TLT FridayLive and to your own educational setting? On April 12th we will talk again with Amy Woodgate, University of Edinburgh’s project director.   There have been some changes to the FridayLive schedule.  Check this out below along     with the great Member Exchange events.   Synchronicity Online: Educ/Entertainment/MOOCs Report/Guidelines FridayLive! 4/12 2pm ET tlt.gs/frlv free online #TLTGfrlv Members Only Exchange Silver Cloudians Transitioning to Teaching Online: the     planning continues April 10, 2013 2:00 pm Eastern Time Register Here Leaders:  Steve Gilbert, Beth Dailey,     Dale Parker, Charles Ansorge, Michael Dabney and others Join our Silver     Cloudian group as we continue to explore how best to expand consulting and     mentoring opportunities and roles. Take a look at the     draft document about transitioning to online teaching. Also we'll explore how to extend volunteer     roles in TLT Group activities.   Social     Media Tools/Designated Learner Experiment: Learn and Use Evernote for Educational Purposes using the Designated Learner Approach April 17, 2013 2:00 pm Eastern Time Register Here   Leaders: Featuring Irene Knokh, Steven Grinde and     Celeste Smith along with     Steve Gilbert, Beth Dailey, and others Evernote may be just the application we need     to help us organize all of our digital resources. Irene Knokh will show us     how using the Designated Learner instructional strategy. This link     will take you to what we are learning about the Designated Learner     instructional strategy. We will add to this based on your input during the     session. In addition, we will explore how Evernote is being used to support     learning. In     preparation for our session, you will need to     create an account with Evernote and     download the application. You are encouraged to have a working USB headset     and/or desk USB microphone so you can participate via voice as well as     chat. During the session you will have the option to     watch or follow along. Social Media Tools/Designated Learner Experiment: Online Introductions Using Animoto May 1, 2013 2:00 pm Eastern Time Register Here Leaders: Featuring Lisa Star, Beth Kiggins and Denise     Hyde with Steve Gilbert,     Beth Dailey, and others FridayLive!   sMOOChers Continue Debrief on MOOCs with Amy     Woodgate   April 12, 2013  2:00-3:00 pm Eastern Time - free to all. Register Here       Amy Woodgate, University of     Edinburgh MOOC project director, rejoins "sMOOChers" who     participated in THE INTENTIONALLY EXPERIMENTAL #EDCMOOC "eLearning and     Digital Cultures," https://www.coursera.org/course/edc .  This is one of six MOOCs offered by     the University of Edinburgh.  Edinburgh was offering this     "course" both as a MOOC and as a more traditional course     simultaneously. Amy will share insights gleaned from participant feedback     and you are invited to join in conversation regarding some of the questions     raised during her last session. This link will take you to those questions. We will     continue to add to the MOOC guidelines that are emerging. Other questions to explore: Is     TLT FridayLive a MOOC? How can TLT FridayLive learn from MOOCs and     incorporate changes in form and function? For the last 15 minutes, participants will be invited to discuss     emerging plans for the TLT Group to offer a MOOC-ish experience based on     John Sener's recent book "Seven Futures of American Education:      Improving Teaching and Learning in     a Screen Captured World." Up-coming  FridayLive! schedule: (NOTE: schedule changes) April 12 sMOOChers Continue Debrief on MOOCs with Amy     Woodgate April 19 When Bad Things Happen in Good Online Courses:     Part 2 April 26 Experience First: A Model for Active Teaching and Learning Strategies May 3 Designing Your Courses for Significant Learning vs Covering the Content     with Dee Fink     May 10 Voice & Sound       MOOCs     Round Two The learning continues.... sMOOChers (Smart MOOCs Higher     Education Research Subgroup) Still     thinking about MOOCs.    It really helped me to establish my own learning goals before I     started the MOOC. The one thing I did not do was to figure out how to     assess my own learning.  The need to do this became evident when I was     faced with submitting an artifact, a requirement of the MOOC.  This     notion of MOOC assessment is carefully explored by Felicia Sullivan in this     white paper, submitted to Tufts University, CIRCLE (The Center for     Information & Research on Civic Learning & Engagement)       Encourage. Enable. Engage. www.tltgroup.org

Synchronicity Online: Educ/Entertainment/MOOCs Report/Guidelines FridayLive! 4/12 2pm ET tlt.gs/frlv free online #TLTGfrlv Posted: 09 Apr 2013 05:12 PM PDT Synchronized? Role of Synchronicity in Education, Entertainment... MOOCs Join TLT Group's FridayLive! April 12, 2013 2pm ET Register free online: tlt.gs/frlv "Streaming Sites and the Rise of Shared Accounts" - NYTimes.com April 6, 2013 "No TV? No Subscription? No Problem," by JENNA WORTHAM See, especially, last half of article about "social viewing" (i.e., synchronous participation)! HIGHLY RELEVANT TO OUR DISCUSSION OF MOOCS! EXCERPT: "We live in a world of on-demand entertainment, where people can consume programming in many formats at any time. That makes shared, cultural experiences more important than ever. Although we can plow through “House of Cards” at our leisure, all in one sitting, do we want to? Or would we rather tune in to Twitter and follow along to see our friends reacting in real time? There’s room for both approaches, but whatever company figures out how to put them together may very well emerge as the dominant force in television. "“The best content is watched live or near-live,” said Alex Iskold, the founder and chief executive of GetGlue, a social TV application that lets users check in and inform their friends about the programs and movies they’re watching. People have become accustomed to chatting along to big television events while on Twitter and Facebook, so that social component “has to be real time,” he said. ... "“It’s critical to let people do their own curation and share that with friends.”" More excerpts: ... 'On Amazon Prime, for example, if two people try to watch the same episode of “Pretty Little Liars” using the same account, both streams will be frozen and a warning message will flash. But one user can simply watch something else until the first person is done trying to figure out who “A” is. 'This feels like a missed opportunity for all these services. It’s the failure to grasp the future of television as a shared social experience online. ... 'Nor does social viewing have to be around a big event. For example, I watched “Friday Night Lights” all winter on Netflix, along with someone I don’t know who also shares the account. Every time I log in, I can see the last episode that this mystery viewer watched — and yet there’s currently no way for us to chat about our reactions to it. That would be much more fun than bugging my other friends about plot twists and turns they saw ages ago, when the show was first broadcast. ... 'That is partly why Twitter and Facebook are so eager to partner with television networks around large-scale sports and awards events like the Olympics and the Oscars. 'In general, live television is receding as people time-shift its content, but the notion of “linear television” is here to stay, he said. 'Mr. Iskold has a point. When I tried to log onto HBO Go last Sunday to see what was happening with the Starks and the mother of dragons, the site was buckling under the load of many others who, just like me, were tuning in at 10 p.m., when the network said it would release the episode online. It would have been fun to share theories about that episode’s plot with friends stymied by the same delay, instead of checking out new shows on Hulu until the demand lightened. ... 'Last week, Rdio introduced Vdio, a video version of its site that will let people stream movies and TV shows and tell friends what they are watching while they are watching it. It’s not much, but it’s a start. And many more new paths are likely if the entertainment companies’ business models evolve in tandem with users’ habits. IMAGE selected by Steve Gilbert 20130509 "Description The Riverside Aquettes perform a synchronized swimming routine at the 27th annual 'Swim with Mike' Saturday at USC McDonald's Swim Stadium. The event was inspired by the 1981 injury of former USC swimmer Mike Nyeholt. Date 14 April 2007, 12:38 Source Swim With Mike... Author Sam and Jeff and Leigh! from Los Angeles & Madison, United States "Permission (Reusing this file) CC-BY-SA. Note: Original image at Flickr is licensed as CC-BY-NC-ND, but licensing for this size (600x800) of the image is CC-BY-SA. The permission to use this work has been archived in the Wikimedia OTRS system. It is available here for users with an OTRS account. If you wish to reuse this work elsewhere, please read the instructions at COM:REUSE. If you are a Commons user and wish to confirm the permission, please leave a note at the OTRS noticeboard. Ticket link: https://secure.wikimedia.org/otrs/index.pl?Action=AgentTicketZoom&TicketID=918297 ..."Licensing This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 1.0 Generic license."     Posted with Blogsy