On June 2, Aviva Dunsiger (@avivaloca) joins us at 8:00 EDT to share her journey in engaging students and parents through social media to maximize her classroom learning community opportunities and deepen the experiences.
Join the online presentation and collaboration space any time after 7:30 p.m. EDT by clicking [here].
Alternatively, you may join the internet radio broadcast.
We look forward to your participation.
Your OSAPAC OSSEMOOC Team
Curation is an important component of digital literacy. Please join us on Tuesday, May 26 at 8 p.m. EDT to learn more.
Did you know that using Pinterest is a form of curation?
If you have never used Pinterest, our 30 days of getting connected has a lesson just for you: Day 10: Pinterest is for more than just crafts and recipes!
If you are on Pinterest, try some of the links we have provided on that site, as demonstrated below.
Challenge: What Pinterest boards can you create to share valuable information with your colleagues? Share the links on #OSSEMOOC!
This Tuesday, May 26th at 8:00 p.m. EDT, we are thrilled to welcome Deborah McCallum (@bigideasinedu) to share her work on curation as an important part of information literacy, a skill that serves educators and learners alike. Whether used as an instructional strategy or skill for learning, it is an effective element of knowledge building, taking ownership, and bringing context to the learning process.
You may join the online presentation and collaboration room anytime after 7:30 p.m. EDT by clicking [here]. As an alternative, you may listen to our internet radio broadcast.
We look forward to your participation.
Your OSAPAC OSSEMOOC team.
Yesterday we looked at the important digital literacy skill of curation. Today, we learn to use a popular curation platform (Sccop.It) both as a place to gather curated material in areas you are interested in and as a place for you to share back content that you want to curate.
As a resource, we are using Day 13 from our 30 Days of Getting Connected: Curating with Scoop.It.
As a challenge today, set up your own Scoop.It account and share a link you have found valuable this month. Then, share back on Twitter using the #OSSEMOOC hashtag.
As we work through this week, we are looking at a digital literacy skill called curation.
Briefly stated, curation allows us to share resources that we feel are valuable to our practice. When others curate resources, the wide stream of information on the web is filtered for your personal needs.
In order to get the idea behind “curation” as an important digital literacy skill, we ask you to refer to and read – from our November series – Day 9: Beginning to Share Content,
and Day 12: A Deeper Look at Curation in Professional Practice.
As a challenge, consider the kind of information you are looking for in your professional life, and the kind of information that you would be able to share back to others with similar needs and interests.
For the May 19th OSSEMOOC session, we are suggesting that you participate in the virtual learning opportunity with Jennifer Jenson at 7 p.m. EDT.
The session may be viewed at .
Your OSAPAC OSSEMOOC Team
Today we continue our series on how to make connections online.
Blogging is a way for educators to share their thinking, their learning and their practice. When we read a blog, and something resonates with us, we can start a conversation by leaving a comment on a blog.
Bloggers often set comments so that they will not appear until the blogger has had an opportunity to read and approve the comment first, so don’t be frustrated if you can’t see your comment on the blog right away. This is a way to prevent spam from being posted on the blog.
Resources: Day 15: Commenting on Blogs
In particular, check out the student created list of success criteria for blog comments.
This screencast features the connecting by video work done on Tuesday night. Keep in mind that our final task for May will be creating a similar video where we ask you about “What is Your Next?”, and this will be our submission to the K12 Online Conference in 2015.
This screencast includes some brief learning about commenting on blogs.
Challenge: Take some time to read student blogs and make a valuable comment for their learning. Some examples can be found on Comments4Kids, Kathy Cassidy’s Class Blog, Karen Lirenman’s class, or ask on Twitter for some links to class blogs.
Then, take some time to read and comment on an educator blog. Links can be found on both margins of this page.
Our special thanks to Darren Kuropatwa and Alan Levine for joining us tonight and helping us to create this beautiful compilation of metaphors about our work.
If you were not able to participate tonight, stay with us through May. Our final project this month is a compilation for the K12 Online Conference next year. Don’t miss it!
Thank you so much to all of the #OSSEMOOC participants tonight. You were OSSEM!
(This post has now been updated with the full-length production.)
Today we look at how we can connect with other educators by taking advantage of online learning opportunities.
If you are a connected educator and leader, you will often hear of opportunities to learn online through, for example, MOOCs, webinars, internet radio, and Hangouts on Air. Taking part in these learning events allows us to connect through the chat or by taking a leading role, and often these connections lead to ongoing conversations, blog posts, and other forms of sharing.
Tonight, OSSEMOOC is offering and opportunity to learn about digital storytelling with two of the best in the “business”!
Join us here at 8 p.m. EDT for a fun look at digital storytelling. Our group task, and your challenge for today, is outlined here. Bring your phone or tablet, or do the task in advance, but be sure to participate!
More details here.
This week, we look at ways to build our Professional Learning Network Online. How do we forge the connections that help to sustain us in our work, support us in our learning and in our quest to find our next practice?
We will continue to use the November 2014, 30 Days to Getting Connected (in 10 Minutes Each Day) as a basis for our work, but we will now start to connect more with each other and with educators online.
Each day we will post a screencast and a challenge to help you move forward with your learning.
Please complete “Ten Minutes of Connecting Day 5, Twitter is Where it is Happening”
If you are not on Twitter, please get an account today.
If you are on Twitter already, your challenge today is to follow all of the others in our list here. If you feel ready, try posting one thing you have learned this month using the hashtag #ossemooc
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