Weeks of July 10 - July 23, 2010
This week's newsletter, as did the last, features the recent Teachers Teaching Teachers shows where some very interesting conversations are taking place on a series of webcasts related to the Gulf oil disaster with the show hosts. Listen to their ideas for developing curriculum to deal with this tragedy and then plan to join them in a live show on Wednesdays at 9:00pm Eastern to contribute to the conversation.
The Instructional Designers are also staying busy during this summer period with their three shows being recorded and posted.
Teachers Teaching Teachers #206 - Will our students find the oil spill compelling? 3rd in a series - 06.23.10 On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers--the third in our summer series on the Gulf oil failure -- Paul Allison and Susan Ettenheim were joined by Chris Sloan and Andrea Zeller. They talked about building curriculum around the Gulf oil spill and other topics, wondering how to keep student self-motivated inquiry at the center of our work while also introducing topics such as the environment, art history, obesity, AP English, or the earthquake in Haiti and other current events.
This the fourth week of a summer series in which we have focused Teachers Teaching Teachers on the BP Gulf Oil Spill. Our guests included:
- Matt Montagne, who has been collecting materials, such as: October 28th, 2010 TEDxOILSPILL Talks
- Diana Laufenberg, a history teacher from Science Leadership Academy who joined us on this topic 3 weeks ago will try (from her family’s farm) to join us again.
- Natasha Whitton, one of the three teachers from the Southeastern Louisiana Writing Project two weeks ago, hopes to join us again
- Andrea Zellner, a biology and English teachers from the Red Cedar Writing Project in Michigan will be with us again!
- AND NEW to our webcast: Catherine Tibbs, a former high school English teacher who works for the Live Oak Writing Project in Mississippi joined us. (She is also invited colleagues who will be heard on future podcasts. Catherine wrote on Monday of this week:
I don’t know if you know this or not, but oil reached the MS beaches this weekend. We had been fortunate so far to avoid this mess. From what I understand from the media, the manpower was not coordinated in the Gulf to skim the oil that is now reaching us. Isn’t that always the case?
- Also new to the podcast is Jeff Mason from Penscola, Florida, a biology and technology teacher. We met a Twitter, and we look forward to a continuing connection. (Jeff came on the webcast last week as well, so look for more from him on future podcasts.)
We hope you will be able to join us in this ongoing project. Help us know how to respond as teachers—and with our students—to this monster that will continue to reek havoc for weeks? months? to come!
Join us to talk about what's happening in the gulf every Wednesday at http://EdTechTalk.com/live at 9:00pm Eastern / 6:00pm Pacific USA (World Times).
Instructional-Design-Live#23 2010-07-09 Case-Based Learning Online
The use of case studies in online courses has been shown to promote critical thinking skills and the ability to transfer these skills to real-life situations, but there can be real challenges with using case studies online. As Joni Dunlap puts it: "My students -- in a professional preparation graduate program -- really push back against case-based exercises. Their position is that they prefer to work on projects from their workplace." This week, Xiaojing Liu discusses her research into designing and facilitating effective case studies. She identifies a number of practices from a review of 27 online MBA courses at the Kelley School of Business, University of Indiana.
Instructional-Design-Live #24 AECT Research Symposium Papers
Jennifer Maddrell and Robert Squires discuss several of the papers being considered this week at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology Research Symposium In Bloomington, Indiana. Papers being presented at the symposium are freely available on the AECT website. Look for shows that follow-up with authors in the near future.
Instructional-Design-Live #25 Is Online Learning Better?
This week on IDLive, Shanna Smith-Jaggars discusses her response to the US Dept. of Education's report on online learning. Widely cited as proof that online learning is better, the DOE study fails to address some of the broader implications of online learning. Dr. Jaggars addresses these issues and many more--a must listen.
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