To Web 2.0 and Beyond

This was my first exposure to Open Educational Resources (OERs), while I wished I had learned about OERs earlier, I am excited to dive into this new concept. So, let's talk OERs Open Educational Resources and Reaching Universal Education OERs include any kind or type  of educational materials that are in the public domain and free to learn from, use, share and remix. Educational resources are typically  published under open licenses (like Creative Commons) that determine how the materials can be used and modified for the user's needs.  The goal of OERs is to provide open access to high quality and digital educational materials.  The OER movement comes from the effort to achieve the universal right to education and to share educational resources  on a global level.  OERs have a broad range of participants that include universities, private organizations and many others.  The above video offers a brief overview of OERs and how OERs can be used to overcom...

One of our challenges this week was to create a vision board on Pinterest.  I am an active user of Pinterest for teaching and other inspiration, it is  an app that I would say I use the most. Pinterest is something I look forward to using and I use it weekly to gather ideas and inspiration as well as learn new things for everything in my life- my job, my outfits, my workouts, vacation planning, career goals and visions, recipes, DIY ideas, literally everything!  While some Pinterest boards function as idea and information boards, where I pin resources that link to important sites and further reading, I also have many boards that are vision boards that are meant to create aesthetic and visions of things.  I created a vision board for my Career Visions and what I want my work life and atmosphere to look like, check out this Career Visions board .  I believe vision boards can effectively help someone establish what they want an aspect of their life to loo...

This week, I participated in a live Twitter chat, where people tune in at the same time to discuss a topic or answer questions with rapid short responses. The topic of the Twitter chat #edchat, was:   "Is the decision made by many states to return to an in-school model of education only, while ignoring the online benefits a sound policy?"  What I enjoyed about the experience was the addition of a little adrenaline I felt. Because the chat moved fast and the chat only lasted for a short time (15 minutes), I was engaged and reading people's ideas and the debates the whole time.  Going into the live twitter chat, I had a goal to tweet once, but as discussions emerged, I wanted to contribute and respond more. My first tweet was the hardest to post, as I had doubts that my ideas would be worth sharing.  #edchat Our district offered a blended model, online in the morning and in person (optional) in the afternoons. One afternoon a week, teachers connect with f...