Published today on as news on Justice Institute of British Columbia (JOBC) web site, is a story featuring the UDG Agora project, JIBC supports student-centred mobile learning at the Universidad de Guadalajara. Helping university professors in Mexico integrate student-centred mobile learning strategies into their courses is the goal of a customized professional development program delivered…
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The Implementation Plan Scene from “Dilo Space”
It is only for solemn or silly reasons I will put a cloth chain around my neck. Yesterday was definitely the latter.
I made a video as a “trailer” for our upcoming UdG Agora Google Hangout (this Friday) the live sessions we are running each…
Dilo (Ugh?) Our New Discourse Powered Platform for UdG Agora
This week we move into the second phase of the UdG Agora project. After two face to face one week long “studio” sessions of 150 University of Guadalajara faculty, we move into an 8 week online phase where they are asked to develop and impl…
The UDG Agora Group Photos
I should have posted these photos a while ago. On the last day of each week of the face to face activities for UdG Agora we asked people to assemble on the lawn outside the CUAAD campus classrooms we used for our sessions.
It worked our well because I …
The UDG Agora Challenge Bank- Newest Iteration of DS106 Assignment Bankenstein
Am major component to the UDG Agora Project is the Challenge Bank I put into place… and after two weeks of intense use for our face to face sessions in Guadalajara, I am quivering in relief that it worked w/o going up in flames.
It got close to 3…
Choices in Learning and Teaching: More Humane? More Engaging?
Last week I blogged a little piece on the power of inviting a human being into a learning or doing experience. The human side of it. Today I finally read the post from Ryan Tracey that a number of folks have mentioned, Collateral damage | E-Learni…
Choices in Learning and Teaching: More Humane? More Engaging?
Last week I blogged a little piece on the power of inviting a human being into a learning or doing experience. The human side of it. Today I finally read the post from Ryan Tracey that a number of folks have mentioned, Collateral damage | E-Learning Provocateur. Ryan, after acknowledging the lack of evidence that […]
Tweeting the #UdGAgora
I have no insight to the future of twitter as a company that rumbles around the conjecture, business, and tech gazing blogs. Tech is always a moving target. Below are some thoughts and even charts and graphs about our use of twitter for the UdGAgora pr…
Hace doce horas en un pasillo del hotel oscuro – Openness with Brian Lamb
Much as he may disavow my assertion (ask him about the one in Flagstaff a few years ago), Brian Lamb and I getting together for presenting is always a peak experience, usually peaking soon before it happens.
For the UdG Agora face to face sessions last…
The UdG Agora Daily Try
Another part of my bag of tricks I brought to the UdG Agora was setting up a site modeled after the original DS106 Daily Create (which is itself a derivative of the defunct Daily Shoot).
This idea is something I have kept close for quite some time, tha…
Building the Main UdG Agora Web Site
Alas, my pile of things to blog about the UdG Agora project is more like the pile of stones than the finished end piece. Here I will describe what went into the main project web site http://udg.theagoraonline.net/ — and as all my web sites go, th…
#UdGAgora – a bit about the model and the team
I basically fell off the weekly blogging schedule in part because in the last 6 weeks the JIBC-University of Guadalajara student-centred and mobile learning faculty development project (known as the UdG Agora) basically took over my life in a good way, of course. A bit about the team – Alan has already done a great summary of […]
#UdGAgora – a bit about the model and the team
I basically fell off the weekly blogging schedule in part because in the last 6 weeks the JIBC-University of Guadalajara student-centred and mobile learning faculty development project (known as the UdG Agora) basically took over my life in a good way, of course. A bit about the team – Alan has already done a great summary of […]
A Peek at the Web Machinery for the UDG Agora Project
Purring like a finely tuned machine…
To followup on the first phase the blogging about the UdG Agora Project, here I will dive into some details of the web site(s) which I am responsible/to blame for. This post covers the overall set up, some s…
The Power of Ordinary Practices – Quotes Worth Amplifying
Well, this seems to be a fitting follow up to my last blog post. Amabile: I believe it’s important for leaders to understand the power of ordinary practices. Seemingly ordinary, trivial, mundane, day-by-day things that leaders do and say can have…
