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Aug 19 2009, 11:31 PM EDT by
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I was a student of a professor who is very successful by academic standards. He has published books and articles, won multiple teaching awards, and established institutes and centers at his university. Those things are great. But what I remember is the personal interest he took in his students. I remember lectures that were engaging. The challenges he set before us and the high standards he held. The time he spent reviewing our work with us. Those things made him successful to me.
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SET stuff
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Aug 19 2009, 1:40 PM EDT by
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One thing I'd like to learn more about is how to effectively facilitate classroom discussion (particularly in small seminary-type courses).
One professor stands out in my mind as a teacher in whose footsteps I'd like to follow. This person, alongside being prepared, organized, challenging, and encouraging, is genuinely interested in his student's ideas and in his students as individuals. Sitting in his classroom was always an experience of growth in terms of knowledge, breadth of opinion, intellectual maturity, personal humility and confidence (they can and should develop each other), or some combination of these. As a college freshman, his class felt like the kind of exciting learning adventure I'd imagined having at university.
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Core Seminar
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Aug 17 2009, 12:36 PM EDT by
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As far as questions that I have for the CORE seminar, I'd like to discuss issues of teaching a large lecture-based class, methods of organizing lectures that seem to be affective for undergraduate students. I'd also like to talk about academic policies (academic integrity, attendance, drop policies, etc.) that I should be aware of at Baylor.
One of my teachers from high school significantly impacted my perception of education through his diligence and willingness to push each student. He taught courses in Psychology and European History, and held high standards for each individual. Particularly in the European History course, he set up a rigorous course of study by diversifying lectures, discussing primary sources, and creating many writing assignments. He not only encouraged discussion but required it, by basically making us talk and orally defend our ideas. As a teacher, he was also very accessible when we encountered problems with the coursework willing to discuss any issues. However, he rarely gave in to our grumbling on the amount of work we had to accomplish. His methods of making us think and create our own ideas did not just prepare us for college history courses, but helped us create methods for taking in material, defend our thoughts, and recognize how much vigor academic endeavors actually need. Out of the 15 students who were in that class, nearly all of us are in graduate school right now (in many different fields) or pursuing careers in education. I believe that a little bit of credit should go to that teacher.
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Relevant Discussion on This Week in Technology
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NMC_2009_Fear_of_Art
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Jun 12 2009, 10:11 AM EDT by
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There was an interesting discussion on This Week in Technology a couple of weeks ago on the relevance of the university. See toward the end of this transcript: http://wiki.twit.tv/wiki/TWiT_197/Transcript
There's some really interesting stuff here coming from a discussion of tech folks with some university folks about the need for the university in today's world. It really relates to our discussion yesterday.
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2a sounds like fun to me
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Digital Storytelling Workshop 2009
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Apr 9 2009, 9:23 AM EDT by
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I remember Bryan talking about the Flickr component at the presentation he did at ELI Annual, and it was very cool. If no one minds, I'll take this on. Do we have any specfic Flickr story in mind? And I'm assuming we can get the images from Flickr Create Commons--http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons? I may need a refresher about how this was done.
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4/7 Lucasfilm's Habitat
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Apr 7 2009, 11:43 AM EDT by
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Just tried to save my notes, but they all got deleted
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Mar 23 2009, 8:08 PM EDT by
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delete this page.
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Sorry, my computer wouldn't let me add an edit
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3/3 Papert
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Mar 3 2009, 11:38 AM EST by
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Shelby's Notes Changing the way we think, specifically about mathematics and geometry. Epistemologist: make concrete what it is your head, "thinking about thinking" metacognition
"Education has very little to do with explanation, it has to do with engagement" Body centered commands of LOGO are closely related to the way we move, leads to natural learning.
Dr. G: Every time you switch media you gain or lose certain forces; text allows one to fit ideas to your mind, verbal allows for more ideas in shorter period of time. Are you making a sculpture or a painting? Must choose media to fit the project.
Metaperspective: thinking about not only the many windows, but also why there are many windows and the significance of each window, think about thinking. The computer is a window onto windows.
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The laptop link
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2/19 PROJECT DISCUSSION DAY
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Feb 20 2009, 7:12 PM EST by
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No matter how many times I tried to fix it, that link kept messing itself up.
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RE: The laptop link
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Feb 20 2009, 7:12 PM EST
"I think it hits the sweet spot just fine for class, but no, it's not nearly as powerful as Mediawiki. Mediawiki is a pig to administer, though--and that's also a consideration, though I have used it in the past. I have to say that I do enjoy how Wetpaint has designed the infospace. But I wish it were less IE-centric." Sigh--forgot to sign in. Might be an interesting project to do a comparison of Mediawiki, Wetpaint. PBWiki, Google Docs (kind of wikiesque). etc. not just in terms of power but in terms of design, fantics, augmentation potential, etc. etc.
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2/19 PROJECT DISCUSSION DAY
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Feb 19 2009, 7:39 AM EST by
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Couldn't get my notes to change size without removing my links, sorry!
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Feb 19 2009, 7:39 AM EST
I fixed that for you--please remind me to show you how I did it.
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ARC v. PARC
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2/5 READ: Engelbart/English, "A Research Center for Augmenting Human Intellect"
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Feb 5 2009, 11:41 AM EST by
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Education as an augmentation system: thinking together augments individual thinking Does language shape the way we think or does the way we think shape language? Training wheels: dumb down computer language instead of teaching people computer language
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Notes for 2/3/09
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1/31 Engelbart continued
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Feb 5 2009, 10:38 AM EST by
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specification- identity
like fractals- self similar. three levels of organization seem to be infinite and interrelated...
thinking about thinking (conceptual framework)- still sounding out the letters
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Conference! Very Important!
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2/5 READ: Engelbart/English, "A Research Center for Augmenting Human Intellect"
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Feb 5 2009, 10:36 AM EST by
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Please sign up for a conference time to discuss your class project and progress.
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1/31 Engelbart continued
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Feb 4 2009, 11:09 PM EST by
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Here are some of my notes from the class, regarding the three structures:
Three structures specification - categorization (eg: college course) organization - organizational structure (eg: the syllabus) content - actual data/materials (eg: the blogs, class meetings, comments, wiki contributions, final project, delicious, textbook, etc.)
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1/31 Engelbart continued
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Feb 3 2009, 11:47 AM EST by
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"We are still sounding out the letters when we think about thinking about computers." An interesting idea, because outside of my obvious obsession with language, it has so much potential. Fluency, insight, and rapid problem solving. Thinking about thinking. Computers will allow us to visualize the complex structure so that the 7 boxes within the mind can now contain multiple boxes within them. A sort of Russian nesting doll for the mind. Very cool.
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google: campbell computers poetry
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1/27 Licklider, "Man-Computer Symbiosis"
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Jan 27 2009, 11:00 AM EST by
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http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/brian/archives/045790.php
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Note to Dr. C
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1/27 Licklider, "Man-Computer Symbiosis"
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Jan 27 2009, 10:27 AM EST by
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Please remember to find an extension cord/adapter...
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Jan 20 2009, 2:07 PM EST by
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Objectives are posted
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Jan 20 2009, 2:06 PM EST by
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I posted the objectives as a new page. I would have a thread instead but it was over the character limit.
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Apr 16 2008, 11:33 PM EDT by
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ummm. yes!
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