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Laura Gibbs wrote a new post, HumanMOOC convo lives on! Thoughts on connected learning., on the site Connect

Sat, 09 Jan 2016 18:38:00 +0000

Impossibly busy today (yes, connectivist teachers have work to do too!) … but I am grateful to Matt for carrying on the convo about dual-layer design and instructivist learning: Instructivism vs Connectivism vs […]

Laura Gibbs wrote a new post, Some thoughts on wrapping up #HumanMOOC, on the site Connect

Mon, 04 Jan 2016 16:58:00 +0000

As #HumanMOOC is wrapping up (I hope I can listen in on the wrap-up hangout with the organizers later today; not sure if that will work out or not), I thought I would quickly record some thoughts… super-busy […]

Laura Gibbs wrote a new post, FERPA doesn't mean we can't have a social LMS, on the site Connect

Wed, 30 Dec 2015 17:51:00 +0000

Update: Be sure to see Jared Stein’s comments on the post that started this convo, and KUDOS to Instructure for being the kind of company that participates in public discussions. That is something I do think is […]

Laura Gibbs wrote a new post, Harkness Tables: Face to Face Net-Working, on the site Connect

Wed, 30 Dec 2015 03:36:00 +0000

I kept thinking about Aras’s sociograms from the hangout today, and I realized that I had seen something similar, but done manually, for face-to-face classes: it’s something called a Harkness table. So I’m writing […]

Laura Gibbs wrote a new post, Thoughts about Choosing, Change, and the 800-Pound LMS Gorilla, on the site Connect

Tue, 29 Dec 2015 03:01:00 +0000

Matt just shared some more detailed reflections about this dual layer approach in #HumanMOOC where the LMS is an instructivist model as opposed to the more constructivist or connectivist model outside the LMS. You […]

Laura Gibbs wrote a new post, Twitter Bootcamp: Resource for #HumanMOOC, on the site Connect

Sun, 20 Dec 2015 19:07:00 +0000

The Week 2 topic for #HumanMOOC is social presence and community building. There’s been some great social present via the #HumanMOOC hashtag at Twitter, so I wanted to offer as a resource to share for Week 2 the […]

Laura Gibbs wrote a new post, Cuique Suum: Responsibility, Diversity, Motivation ... all in two little words, on the site Connect

Sat, 19 Dec 2015 17:59:00 +0000

Matt Crosslin left some really detailed comments on an earlier post that I need to ponder before responding because they are about pedagogical theory and such, not the stuff I usually write about so I will have to […]

Laura Gibbs wrote a new post, Presence: Bring Your Creativity to Class, on the site Connect

Sat, 19 Dec 2015 02:14:00 +0000

The discussions going on during Week 1 of #HumanMOOC were really stimulating for me; the idea of presence is one that I think about a lot since I teach fully online classes. What I’d like to share in this post is […]

Laura Gibbs wrote a new post, HumanMOOC: Learners are Free, on the site Connect

Thu, 17 Dec 2015 20:17:00 +0000

So, the more I look at the dichotomy behind the dual-layer MOOC, the more puzzling (and offputting) I find it. Here’s a quote from a post I found at EduGeek Journal that explains the idea in detail (there is no […]

Laura Gibbs wrote a new post, HumanMOOC Week 1: Instructor Presence, on the site Connect

Tue, 15 Dec 2015 17:18:00 +0000

* Combined post for Week 1, Activity 1 (create intro presence) and Activity 2 (reflect), plus Activity 3 (learn a new tool) *I just created something fun for my “Instructor Presence” activity; instead of doing an […]

Laura Gibbs wrote a new post, OUTechExpo Twitter Bootcamp... Thinking about #HumanMOOC, on the site Connect

Mon, 14 Dec 2015 18:17:00 +0000

So, here’s some info about my “Twitter Bootcamp” project for those of you participating in #HumanMOOC. I would be really glad to hear from #HumanMOOC participants about this project (see requests below), and I […]

Laura Gibbs wrote a new post, Winter Break Projects: Twitter, Self-Efficacy, HEART, on the site Connect

Mon, 14 Dec 2015 15:56:00 +0000

I’ve got three big projects that I am working on during our (brief) winter break, and luckily they are all three related to the #HumanMOOC as well, so I will be using this blog to document those projects and share […]

Laura Gibbs wrote a new post, HumanMOOC: first thoughts, on the site Connect

Sat, 05 Dec 2015 18:15:00 +0000

I had learned about HumanMOOC from Adam Croom at Twitter last week and I had signed up, thinking it was starting December 7, and then by accident saw a Hangout announcement at Google+ already today, Saturday (Dec. […]