October 10, 2014
by Maha Bali
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This post is inspired by two live events scheduled today Oct 10: a #digped chat at 3pm EST and a live discussion between Cathy Davidson and a few others at 4pm EST – I probably can’t make either one but … Continue reading
October 9, 2014
by Maha Bali
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The Call for Proposals for #et4online has just opened up (open til Dec 1), and I’ve decided to write a series of posts on my reasons for wanting to go go #et4online 2015 this year (any offers to babysit my … Continue reading
September 21, 2014
by Maha Bali
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It suddenly struck me that we’ve been focusing a whole lot on the teacher’s “why” during #ccourses, and by doing that, we might be losing focus of the learner’s “why” (except that for many of us, our “why” is about … Continue reading
September 16, 2014
by Maha Bali
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Do you know that story about the philosophy exam where there was just one question: “Why?” – and the student who got an “A” was the one who responded, “Why not?” Or do you know this quote, the one along … Continue reading
August 23, 2014
by Maha Bali
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I just found out about this cool thing (though I’m sure someone else has done something like it in front of me, maybe in #clmooc? But for some reason today I thought it was cool and took the time to … Continue reading
August 16, 2014
by Maha Bali
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I got two three cool ideas for games I might use with my students this semester. I teach the last 1/3 of a module on creativity, and my part involves students creating their own educational games. Last semester (my first … Continue reading
August 16, 2014
by Maha Bali
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I’d been running away from ed tech for years. Because I moved into education from a computer science background, and our Center for Learning and Teaching approached faculty development with a half-pedagogy/half-technology focus (roughly speaking), I ended up having to … Continue reading
August 9, 2014
by Maha Bali
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I’ve had an extremely inspiring day on the web today* and I just needed to write and share these inspiring thoughts, will keep them brief for now: Michael Weller’s blog post reflecting on the last week of #clmooc changing goals. … Continue reading
July 28, 2014
by Maha Bali
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Well, there are soooo many things I looooved about clmooc. So many, and yet I never “properly” engaged with it*… But here are the top five things I plan to take from #clmooc back to my own context 1. The … Continue reading
July 24, 2014
by Maha Bali
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I have been thinking about this week’s #clmooc 5-image story. Feel free to ignore the text in italics, they’re tangential thoughts (the 5-image story idea is one I would love to try in my classes… And I have lots of … Continue reading