http://etap687.edublogs.org ...as I design and teach "Intro to Online Teaching" Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:34:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The conversation below is an effort to blur the boundaries of my online course to expose my students to the world "outside" the walls of our online course, and to invite the world "in" to our course to enhance our current discussion on how to engage online learners. This activity ... http://etap687.edublogs.org/2009/08/13/bringing-the-outside-into-my-course-with-seesmic/ This is a presentation on my online course ETAP687 using a tool called prezi. You can also view it from here. To activate the presentation, just click on the arrow in the center of the screen (you may need to wait a little while it loads). To advance through the presentation, ... http://etap687.edublogs.org/2009/07/21/teaching-outside-the-box/ One of my current students uses her dog, Bishop, as her profile image. I love that she does that. It gives me a warm feeling about her. She mentioned in one of our discussions that she chose him because she was concerned about her privacy and security. She said: I think it ... http://etap687.edublogs.org/2009/07/13/the-avatar-as-a-representation-of-self-2/ i am using gcast (the widget below) to give you access to your podcasted audio feedback  to your module 3 written assignment. (You can also access your feedback here: http://www.gcast.com/u/alexandrapickett/main). I have done a separate individualized podcast for each of you labeled with your name. Feel free to listen to ... http://etap687.edublogs.org/2009/07/11/module-3-learning-activities-podcasted-feedback/ I posted these links to feedback on your course built it activities in the gradebook, but i don't know/ am not sure that you can see them there/have seen them there, so here they are. I encourage you to have a look at each other's feedback. At this stage in your ... http://etap687.edublogs.org/2009/07/09/build-it-activity-feedback-from-modules-1-2/ Last year i was invited to participate in a planning meeting for the 2009 annual conference of the National University Telecommunications Network (NUTN)  by Joanne Humbert from RIT from the planning committee. The 27th annual NUTN 2009: Quality In Motion conference, was held on June 21-23, 3009 in Saratoga Springs, ... http://etap687.edublogs.org/2009/06/30/nutn-2009/ One conference down, 2 to go! The drive from Monterey to San Francisco along the coast on US Rt 1 is amazing! It is not a long drive. We took our time. explored. stopped. took pictures. it was great. Getting to the conference hotel was easy, everything went ... http://etap687.edublogs.org/2009/06/30/sloancsym/ I love Monterey, California. AND i loved the New Media Consortium summer conference (#nmc2009), June 9, 2009 - June 13, 2009 in Monterey, California hosted by California State University, Monterey Bay. I was invited to present a 3.5 hour workshop, teaching outside the "box", and was fortunate to have gotten ... http://etap687.edublogs.org/2009/06/30/nmc2009/ Today is the offical start date of my summer online course, etap687. It is a master's level fully online course at UAlbany in the education department. If you are interested, here is a link to a tour of the course. I also have a cool prezi presentation that i am ... http://etap687.edublogs.org/2009/05/26/the-course-starts-today/ I have been using twitter since December 2007... so waaaay before Oprah and it going mainstream. In fact, i am not sure i like everyone and their brother talking about it and doing it...it kinda makes me cringe when the local news anchor mentions twitter to sound hip and with ... http://etap687.edublogs.org/2009/05/15/my-criteria-for-evaluating-whom-to-follow-on-twitter/