This week Christopher and I discuss virtual observation, and the value added it can provide in any pedagogical setting.  We additionally talk about two models of virtual observation that we are testing, and what we hope to be able to accomplish through our work.

5 Virtual Observation 2015 - 2-24

Christopher is out of town this week and so we bring in Dr. Craig Berg, a professor of teaching science education at the middle and high school levels, and talk TeachLivE and BACOT with him.

TeachLivE is a virtual teaching simulation that allows student teachers to practice teaching in a safe context that better scaffolds into teaching at a school placement.

BACOT is a program that Craig co-developed to provide a data driven, easy to use, app-based assessment tool.

Together these things have great potential to transform the way that student teaching is mastered, and have applicability beyond just Schools of Education.  Also, they boast some really cool gamified elements!

6 TeachLivE and BACOT 2015 - 3 - 12

Christopher is back from Arizona this week, and we're talking MOOCs.  Although the topic has been discussed extensively, we take advantage of the fact that we now have separation from the initial onslaught of MOOC talk and relate our own personal experiences:

What they do right, what they need to improve in this second generation, and why everyone should take at least one to completion.

7 Inevitably, MOOCs 2015 - 3-19

This week Christopher and I are joined by our special guest Jodi Eastberg (@sisterzissou) of Alverno College to speak about Storify (https://storify.com/), an online tool for creating digital narratives using a pastiche of social media, web pages, and other online content.

We discuss some of the specific ways that Jodi uses Storify in her classes, how it can be applied to a broad range of disciplines, the digital literacies reinforced through it, and how to get up and running with it.

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