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Where does learning happen
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Private
- Did use Blackbaord
- Using Moodle Now
- Also using Ning
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Public
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Have students blog
- Students can keep it
- Or delete it
- Related is student ownership if their learning
- Personally owning the space, as the learner, is important
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Assessment
- Asks students at end of course to explay what they learned from classmates and how the contributed to the learning of classmates
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Co-construct the criteria
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Individuals can be assessed from the environment that they are more comfortable with
- Some are good bloggers
- Others are better networkers
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Distributive Expertise
- They become facilitators or serpas, Skyping in expertise & perspective
- Experts
- Local practicioners
- Matches up students (pre service) with mentors
- Dean is having his student contract services to practicing teachers so that the relations is win/win...
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Learning and teaching online
- Have a networked presence.
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Find an appropriate mix of personal and professional
- Afterall, it is online and it's digital, and we need a personal sense of each other is critical to us, as human.
- Learning in the methods that Alec & Dean are describing provokes the "habit" of professional development...