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Rethink your course visually

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Created July 16, 2015 by Tannis Morgan • 3207 views • 19 responses • 0 resources

Concept mapping is an alternate approach to course planning. Use the examples to help you rethink your course this way and choose one way to map out your course. Use a venn diagram approach to map out your in-class and out of class activities. You can do this on paper and take a photo to share, use the template provided https://drive.google.com/file/d/0By6nP-hAix_JNGkwOGlMaXlTc00/view?usp=sharing , or create your own using an app like BaiBoard. Here is a venn diagram example of rethinking more… »

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Exploring the possibilities of collaborative learning

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Created July 14, 2015 by Tannis Morgan • 3426 views • 163 responses • 1 resources

Exploring the possibilities of collaborative learning

Choose one collaborative learning card. Read it, and think of an example of how you could use the collaborative learning strategy in your course. Decide how this activity could be applied in your as either content creation, a learning activity or an assessment of learning. In your challenge response include: the name of the collaborative strategy you chose how you would apply it in the course you are teaching why you would apply this strategy You can also think about about a possible mobile application. more… »

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Diseñar una red para el aprovechamiento académico

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Created July 12, 2015 by Jorge Enrique • 1380 views • 9 responses • 1 resources

Diseñar una red para el aprovechamiento académico

Hoy debemos concebirnos profesionalmente como parte de una red de aprendizaje. Un buen diseño de red, facilita acceder al conocimiento. Muchas veces hemos escuchado que las redes sociales son una pérdida de tiempo. Sin embargo, en la medida en que sigamos las actualizaciones de personas académicamente solventes, nos procuramos información de calidad que podemos capitalizar para nuestro aprendizaje. Para optimizar nuestro grafo social, es decir, las conexiones con personas que tenemos en las redes, debemos hacer el siguiente ejercicio: ¿Quiénes more… »

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Comparte una representación gráfica de tu Entorno Personal de Aprendizaje

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Created by Jorge Enrique • 5188 views • 28 responses • 0 resources

Nube de herramientas y servicios web 2.0 básicos que forman un PLE (Entorno personal de aprendizaje)

Los Entornos Personales de Aprendizaje (PLE, por sus siglas en Inglés de Personal Learning Environment) son sistemas que ayudan a los estudiantes a tomar el control y gestión de su propio aprendizaje. Esto incluye el apoyo a los estudiantes para fijar sus propios objetivos de aprendizaje, gestionar su aprendizaje, la gestión de los contenidos y procesos, comunicarse con otros en el proceso de aprendizaje y lograr así los objetivos de aprendizaje. Un PLE puede estar compuesto de uno o varios more… »

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Promover la evaluación con la ayuda de aplicaciones móviles como Socrative

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Created by Jorge Enrique • 1941 views • 3 responses • 1 resources

Promover la evaluación con la ayuda de aplicaciones móviles como Socrative

Se trata de una sencilla aplicación, que funciona en cualquier dispositivo con un navegador web, que permite recoger las respuestas de las preguntas que lanzamos oralmente. Pongamos un ejemplo: Acabas de explicar Creative Commons y preguntas: “¿Son compatibles las condiciones ‘Sin obra derivada’ y ‘Compartir igual?‘ Entonces con Socrative, eliges una pregunta “Verdadero/Falso” y los alumnos responden desde su ordenador, smartphone o tableta. Ves en todo momento la cantidad de personas que ya han respondido, así como los resultados en more… »

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Rethink a Course Activity

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Created by Tannis Morgan • 2455 views • 156 responses • 0 resources

Simply adding mobile or technology to a course does not make it student-centred. The D-School approach is one way to begin rethinking your course activities by getting you to “think big” and then ask why and how to implement your idea. Use the course redesign template (link will allow you to save a copy onto your Google Doc drive) to redesign one of your course activities. In the first row, you will see an example. 2. Share the link to more… »

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Liberating Structures: Discovery and Action Dialog

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Created by Nancy White • 1873 views • 9 responses • 2 resources

Liberating Structures: Discovery and Action Dialog

There is so much knowledge inside of each of us. We can tap this for problem solving or any kind of knowledge sharing or learning activities. One very useful Liberating Structure for this is Discovery and Action Dialog, or D.A.D. Do this challenge in pairs or small groups. For the F2F events, we’ll work in pairs or trios. Online you can do this with another person in a chat room, Google Hangout, Skype or in any web meeting tool. It is more… »

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What Are We Celebrating?

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Created by Alan Levine • 2458 views • 48 responses • 1 resources

On the beach! I celebrate completing this challenge #udgAgora http://t.co/LSfbhidTIy
— Alan Levine (@cogdog) July 12, 2015

Tell us something about the Agora to celebrate! You have walked the Agora, listened to tweeting birds, seen daily oddities. This Challenge is easy and designed to help you practice using the Challenge Bank. We have assembled a collection of animated GIFs that express celebration– follow this link to see one randomly chosen for you (the link will open in a new browser window). Think of a short sentence (one that will fit in a tweet) that says how this celebrates something you did in the more… »

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Create a scenario using only open media

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Created July 11, 2015 by Barb Kidd • 1378 views • 4 responses • 0 resources

Scenarios can be developed for any purpose and for any subject matter, and to any degree of complexity. You can use as much technology as you wish in the scenarios, from simple narratives and visuals to the use of high-tech multimedia. In this Challenge you will explore and use open media resources to enhance your scenario and your students’ experience.

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Create a low-tech scenario-based learning activity

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Created by Barb Kidd • 1891 views • 67 responses • 0 resources

Create a low-tech scenario-based learning activity

What application could scenario based learning have in a class you teach? Think about topics in your courses that require problem solving, critical thinking and analysis. In this Challenge you will develop a simple low-tech scenario that you can try out with one of your classes during the Agora online component in the Fall. Read through the Scenario Based Learning Guide & Templates. (A print copy will be provided in-session, a PDF copy is here.) Carefully consider your teaching context, more… »

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