Why I chose the blog name
old dogs can indeed learn new tricks! I hope so anyway. More specifically, Lecture Style Teaching can become Active Learning. I am undertaking a redesign of a junior level measurements course in...
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Read the book, its really good. If you don’t have time, you can always try the 37 page Self-Directed Guide (SDG) to Designing Courses for Significant Learning. I am in the Initial Design Phase...
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Step 2 is establishing what my Significant Learning Goals are for the course. There’s a worksheet for this one as well on p11 of the SDG. The task here is to identify two to three main items in each...
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Time Warp
In early Fall 2008, I began blogging, primarily for myself, as a working and reflective exercise to capture my transition from lecture delivery as a teacher to designer of learning experiences for...
View Articledo I need to rename my blog
I googled “old dogs”+blog and found some neat links. Here is my Fav The lead pic of Champ in SD reflects my inner soul. I’ll take this as a metaphysical sign that this blog name is as good as any.
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Orientation week of the Change MOOC and week three of HON4013 Honors Colloquium on STEM Education and ENGR1020 Introduction to Univ Life, what do these three courses have in common? Participant in all,...
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Today, reading through the extensive blogs list in the Change11 newsletter, I found a connection with a fellow #change11 MOOConian, Allan Quartly, and wanted to leave a comment on his post as follows:...
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Today I find that the first facilitator for Week 2 of Change2011 uses “blogspot.com” and anticipating I may want to respond to posts of now two people using blogspot, there I was again at the * of...
View ArticleConnecting the flag of South Carolina and Miniature Golf and Innovation in TN
How many times have you played miniature golf? Did you ever wonder how this game came to be? Turns out the invention is credited to a Tennessean named, Jack Garnet Carter, from Sweetwater, TN. Did a...
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The links between modern thought and ancient wisdom are highlighted here, what a delightful piece! http://chronicle.com/article/What-Buddhist-Monks-Taught-Me/129697/ making connections and focusing...
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