About Me
Michael Edwards is an Instructional Designer for the Center for Distance Education at Rhodes State College. This blog contains his thoughts on various elearning resources, pedagogy, technology, and web 2.0 tools as well as feeds from some of his favorite resources.
Category Archives: elearning
Google Wave: The Future of Online Collaboration
This is cutting edge, breaking news in web products. Google announced Wave yesterday. General information http://wave.google.com/help/wave/about.html In a way, it’s a combination of several familiar forms of communication, including: Email Discussion Boards Wiki Instant Messaging Text Document Image sharing, files, … Continue reading
Sloan-C: Designing for a Blended Community of Inquiry
Designing for a Blended Community of Inquiry Karen Swan introduced Norm Vaughan (Mount Royal College) as he delivered an interactive workshop about blended learning across two sessions divided by a break. Session 1 Norm tasked us in small groups with … Continue reading
Sloan-C: Great Ideas series
Great Ideas series A series of short (10 minute) presentations of ideas and tools for blended learning. Theory to Application: Facilitating Team Work with Out-Of-Class Assignments Catrin Mills presented on how to create collaborative out-of-class assignments. She took us through … Continue reading
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Sloan-C: Blending With Purpose
Blending With Purpose Anthony “Tony” G. Picciano facilitated a panel that included George Otte (City University of New York), Karen Vignare (Michigan State University) and Tony himself. Before the panel format began, Tony talked a bit about the emergence of … Continue reading
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Sloan-C: Welcome & Introductions
Sloan-C Blended Workshop Mary Niemiec kicked things off at the 2009 Sloan-C Blended Workshop by speaking a bit about the evolution of blended learning. “When we first started it was an invited 30 people. Blended learning wasn’t well defined (hybrid? … Continue reading