Couch glamour shot. Going live on YouTube in 36 mins to eat way too many @BlueStarDonuts and discuss the fincen file leak.
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All my HDMI cords are now sorted by length and connector combo (full HDMI, micro, mini) and hung up on the inside of my closet door and this is so much nicer than cramming them into various drawers! Next up: USB
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I am liking @larrywilmore’s new show, but I really really miss the Nightly Show’s roundtable discussions. An excellent moderator. Oooh...would love to see a Wilmore Presidential Debate when we have more than 1 serious & rational major candidate!
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Looking forward to all of the honest and not at all ridiculous takes of SEC football’s obvious superiority over everyone else after this UGA-ARK game.
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I've been producing online events for clients like @duolingo and @adobe full-time for the last 6 months, and I'm really good at it. If you're considering producing an online event, or you need help transitioning an in-person event online, hit me up: andy@regular.events.
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“And friends are friends forever
If the Lord's the Lord of them
And a friend will not say never
'Cause the Covid will not end”
Well over 50,000 Christians lifting their prayer and worship over America today at the Lincoln Memorial with my friend @michaelwsmith
#PrayerMarch2020
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In other news, I decided to just record all of my team’s games today so I could try and enjoy Santa Barbara.
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Remember when I said that Georgia Tech would be better this year?
I may have been wrong. Yikes.
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On not choosing WordPress for the W3C redesign project - Working in the open with W3C and Studio 24. #Goodreads w3c.studio24.net/updates/on-not…
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I did the thing I said I would. Ran 7 miles in the rain without complaining (much). Thank you for precious breathable air and lungs that can heal from 10 days of poison air.
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2nd Ruby API Announcement: Today I made a prototype of a full REPL editor that anyone can use! You can write your own code & pick a Ruby engine like MRI 3.0 preview 1, MR...
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"html": "<p>As is typical in the Fall semesters, I am teaching a section of our first year, project-based course <em>Tackling a Wicked Problem</em>. Back before we knew the extent of the COVID-19 crisis, we knew that there were going to be at least some students who wanted to take all of their courses online. Some of these students would be first year students and we didn\u2019t want to have to tell them that they couldn\u2019t enroll in some of this required first year course so we decided that we needed to offer at least one section of it fully online. At the time, we were only really talking about fully online asychronous courses and so I volunteered to pilot a section in that modality.</p>\n<p>I have written about <em>Tackling a Wicked Problem</em> <a href=\"https://cathieleblanc.com/category/tackling-a-wicked-problem/\">many times before</a>, particularly in this post: <a href=\"https://cathieleblanc.com/2019/05/10/what-is-tackling-a-wicked-problem/\">What is </a><em><a href=\"https://cathieleblanc.com/2019/05/10/what-is-tackling-a-wicked-problem/\">Tackling a Wicked Problem</a></em><a href=\"https://cathieleblanc.com/2019/05/10/what-is-tackling-a-wicked-problem/\">?</a> Through the evolution of this course, we developed the idea of<a href=\"https://cathieleblanc.com/category/cluster-pedagogy/\"> cluster pedagogy</a> or what we are now calling cluster learning. In particular, the course provides students with the opportunity to engage in interdisciplinary, integrative, project-based learning experiences using open education strategies. This means that students will work in groups on challenging projects that have potentially significant implications outside of the classroom. In order to do this work, students need to look at the problems they are approaching from a variety of standpoints using knowledge from multiple disciplines. In order to effectively work on these kinds of projects, students must collaborate closely with each other and potentially with people outside of the classroom.</p>\n<p>I have taught many online, asynchronous classes in the past and have come away from those experiences feeling as though I have taught each student in an individual enrollment. In these classes, I tried to get students to interact with each other via the Discussion Forums in the Learning Management System (LMS) which was always artificial and didn\u2019t lead to very many natural interactions among the students, even when they were supposed to be working on projects together. Anyone who has ever tried to use the LMS to collaborate for committee work knows how static the Discussion Forums feel. And how they actually somehow inhibit meaningful interaction. If you can\u2019t have meaningful interaction, there is no way to truly collaborate.</p>\n<p>I have also taught face-to-face classes in which we utilized the Microsoft collaboration tools that we had at the time. For example, a few years ago, I taught a section of <em>Media and Cultural Studies</em> in which I asked students to begin the development of an OER for the class. They wrote chapters together. To facilitate that work, I set up a OneDrive space for the class and created folders for each group where they could collaborate on as many documents (Word, Powerpoint, other tools) as they needed. Once they had a polished draft of their chapter, I copied and pasted it to <a href=\"https://mediastudies.pressbooks.com/\">our OER</a>. This process worked pretty well because 1. the students had a shared online space where they could easily share their work with each other, and, 2. I gave them time in class to engage in face-to-face collaboration. They didn\u2019t have to rely on our LMS to discuss their work together.</p>\n<p>So for this semester, I knew that I was going to use something similar to the OneDrive space for the students to be able to easily share their work with each other. But I needed some online tool(s) to replace the face-to-face collaboration that students have done in the past. Since I last taught <em>Media and Cultural Studies</em>, PSU has gone all-in with our Office 365 tools. In particular, we have implemented MS Teams, which is a chat-based workspace in Office 365 that makes it easy to have conversations, share files and collaborate on documents, and get work done with teams across the organization. Within MS Teams, there is a chat tool, a video conferencing tool, space for conversations within the group, and a space for storing, sharing, and working collaboratively on documents (Word, Powerpoint, Excel, etc.). MS Teams also allows embedding of other apps into the Team for ease of use. MS Teams runs on multiple platforms\u2013on the web within a browser, in a desktop app, and/or in a mobile app. Because most of our PSU service work this summer was remote, we used MS Teams extensively and it works pretty well although it has a couple of annoying bugs.</p>\n<p>As I was beginning to plan my course for this semester, I read \u201c<a href=\"https://journals.sfu.ca/jalt/index.php/jalt/article/view/215/191\">Introducing the Tri-layered Student Online Experience Framework: Moving from file repository to narrative journey</a>,\u201d by Eager, Lehman, and Scollard. I <a href=\"https://cathieleblanc.com/2020/05/25/moving-from-file-repository-to-narrative-journey/\">wrote</a> about the article back in May. The TL;DR of the article is that students view the online educational materials of a class as a \u201cvalue-added investment in exchange for their time.\u201d In other words, students ask themselves \u201cWhy should I engage with this online material?\u201d When we put the educational materials into a typical LMS, the list of materials looks like an undifferentiated list\u2013a file repository. The framework that Eager, et all propose puts educational materials into a context (a narrative journey) that helps students answer the question of why they should engage with each online resource. By implementing this framework, the designer of the LMS-based class helps students begin to understand how engaging with each of the educational resources contributes to the learning goals of the class.</p>\n<p>In my early interactions with students this semester, several told me that they really like how the Moodle course is set up because they understand what they need to do, when they need to do it, and why they need to it. That\u2019s validating but the idea that the primary purpose of the LMS is to facilitate the storage and dissemination of educational materials helped me to understand why I have always found the discussion forums provided in the LMS to be too static for authentic interaction among the students. The LMS is designed for the exchange of static documents and text and it does that job really well. But it isn\u2019t designed for conversations or sustained multi-way interactions among individuals. That is exactly what a tool like Microsoft (MS) Teams is designed for, however. So I decided that I would use Moodle, our LMS, in my class this fall for the things that it was designed to do well. And I would integrate that with MS Teams for the things that it was designed to do well.</p>\n<p>I set up my Moodle class as I normally would, with weekly schedules, copies of and links to various educational materials, and places for the students to submit assignments that are for my eyes only. Moodle shows up for students in their My Courses tab on our University portal so they are able to find it easily. I also put a link in the Moodle class to a MS Team for our class. so that students would also always be able to easily find it. To give students access to the Team, I had to manually add each student because there is no way (that I know of) to import a roster. Whenever there is an activity or an assignment that asks students to interact with each other, I point out from Moodle to our MS Team. I set the Team up with a number of channels so that conversations would be easier to follow and engage in.</p>\n<p>For example, an assignment for the first week was for students to introduce themselves to the class. So I created a channel called Introductions. Students chose the medium they wanted to use for their introductions. Some typed an introduction directly into the Posts tab of the Introductions channel. Some uploaded a video introduction. Some created a Powerpoint and uploaded the file. The second part of the assignment asked students to comment on at least 4 of their classmates introduction with a question, a comment about something they found interesting, a comment about something they had in common, and so on. I have used this assignment in every online class that I have ever taught but in the past, I used the Discussion Forums in the LMS but I was always disappointed in how stilted the interactions between students seemed. In Teams, I immediately saw a difference. When students received comments or questions on their introduction post, they responded. And then the other student responded. And then they were asking each other for their xBox login names so they could play video games together. This happened many times in this introduction channel. The students were having actual conversations.</p>\n<p>As I said, <em>Tackling a Wicked Problem</em> is a project-based class in which students work in teams on a project that tries to address some aspect of the wicked problem. I was most worried about how to facilitate the group projects given that the class is online asynchronous. I was hopeful that MS Teams would facilitate the team interactions in ways that I have never seen work on the LMS. So for each group, I set up a private channel and added the members to the channel. Each channel has two tabs, a Posts tab and a Files tab. I created a video to explain that the Posts tab can be used for conversation while the Files tab is a space where the students can store documents that they are collaborating on. To get them started on the first activity of their project, I put an annotated bibliography template in the File space for each group. At first, the interaction was slow but as they have worked on this project (it isn\u2019t due for another couple of weeks), each group is using Teams more and more. They are having conversations, sometimes asking me questions. Because I have Teams both on my computer and my phone, I get notified when there\u2019s something that needs my attention and I can jump in immediately (if I want). Even more exciting is when they answer each other\u2019s questions which happens regularly. Their annotated bibliographies were due on Sunday of this past week. They posted them in the Files tab of their group and I was able to provide feedback right in the document for them all to see. I can also see who contributed what to the various documents.</p>\n<p>At the start of the semester, I also set up a \u201cAsk Questions Here\u201d channel for students to ask any questions they might have. In my introductory materials for the class, I encouraged them to answer any of the questions that they might see in that channel if they knew the answer. The first time that a student answered a question here, I positively acknowledged the answer and again encouraged them to jump in if they know the answers. Students now regularly post questions and answer each other\u2019s questions in this channel. That\u2019s an exciting development.</p>\n<p>MS Teams has a chat feature and students regularly chat me there. 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In particular, the course provides students with the opportunity to engage in interdisciplinary, integrative, project-based learning experiences using open education strategies. This means that students will work in groups on challenging projects that have potentially significant implications outside of the classroom. In order to do this work, students need to look at the problems they are approaching from a variety of standpoints using knowledge from multiple disciplines. In order to effectively work on these kinds of projects, students must collaborate closely with each other and potentially with people outside of the classroom.\nI have taught many online, asynchronous classes in the past and have come away from those experiences feeling as though I have taught each student in an individual enrollment. In these classes, I tried to get students to interact with each other via the Discussion Forums in the Learning Management System (LMS) which was always artificial and didn\u2019t lead to very many natural interactions among the students, even when they were supposed to be working on projects together. Anyone who has ever tried to use the LMS to collaborate for committee work knows how static the Discussion Forums feel. And how they actually somehow inhibit meaningful interaction. If you can\u2019t have meaningful interaction, there is no way to truly collaborate.\nI have also taught face-to-face classes in which we utilized the Microsoft collaboration tools that we had at the time. For example, a few years ago, I taught a section of Media and Cultural Studies in which I asked students to begin the development of an OER for the class. They wrote chapters together. To facilitate that work, I set up a OneDrive space for the class and created folders for each group where they could collaborate on as many documents (Word, Powerpoint, other tools) as they needed. Once they had a polished draft of their chapter, I copied and pasted it to our OER. This process worked pretty well because 1. the students had a shared online space where they could easily share their work with each other, and, 2. I gave them time in class to engage in face-to-face collaboration. They didn\u2019t have to rely on our LMS to discuss their work together.\nSo for this semester, I knew that I was going to use something similar to the OneDrive space for the students to be able to easily share their work with each other. But I needed some online tool(s) to replace the face-to-face collaboration that students have done in the past. Since I last taught Media and Cultural Studies, PSU has gone all-in with our Office 365 tools. In particular, we have implemented MS Teams, which is a chat-based workspace in Office 365 that makes it easy to have conversations, share files and collaborate on documents, and get work done with teams across the organization. Within MS Teams, there is a chat tool, a video conferencing tool, space for conversations within the group, and a space for storing, sharing, and working collaboratively on documents (Word, Powerpoint, Excel, etc.). MS Teams also allows embedding of other apps into the Team for ease of use. MS Teams runs on multiple platforms\u2013on the web within a browser, in a desktop app, and/or in a mobile app. Because most of our PSU service work this summer was remote, we used MS Teams extensively and it works pretty well although it has a couple of annoying bugs.\nAs I was beginning to plan my course for this semester, I read \u201cIntroducing the Tri-layered Student Online Experience Framework: Moving from file repository to narrative journey,\u201d by Eager, Lehman, and Scollard. I wrote about the article back in May. The TL;DR of the article is that students view the online educational materials of a class as a \u201cvalue-added investment in exchange for their time.\u201d In other words, students ask themselves \u201cWhy should I engage with this online material?\u201d When we put the educational materials into a typical LMS, the list of materials looks like an undifferentiated list\u2013a file repository. The framework that Eager, et all propose puts educational materials into a context (a narrative journey) that helps students answer the question of why they should engage with each online resource. By implementing this framework, the designer of the LMS-based class helps students begin to understand how engaging with each of the educational resources contributes to the learning goals of the class.\nIn my early interactions with students this semester, several told me that they really like how the Moodle course is set up because they understand what they need to do, when they need to do it, and why they need to it. That\u2019s validating but the idea that the primary purpose of the LMS is to facilitate the storage and dissemination of educational materials helped me to understand why I have always found the discussion forums provided in the LMS to be too static for authentic interaction among the students. The LMS is designed for the exchange of static documents and text and it does that job really well. But it isn\u2019t designed for conversations or sustained multi-way interactions among individuals. That is exactly what a tool like Microsoft (MS) Teams is designed for, however. So I decided that I would use Moodle, our LMS, in my class this fall for the things that it was designed to do well. And I would integrate that with MS Teams for the things that it was designed to do well.\nI set up my Moodle class as I normally would, with weekly schedules, copies of and links to various educational materials, and places for the students to submit assignments that are for my eyes only. Moodle shows up for students in their My Courses tab on our University portal so they are able to find it easily. I also put a link in the Moodle class to a MS Team for our class. so that students would also always be able to easily find it. To give students access to the Team, I had to manually add each student because there is no way (that I know of) to import a roster. Whenever there is an activity or an assignment that asks students to interact with each other, I point out from Moodle to our MS Team. I set the Team up with a number of channels so that conversations would be easier to follow and engage in.\nFor example, an assignment for the first week was for students to introduce themselves to the class. So I created a channel called Introductions. Students chose the medium they wanted to use for their introductions. Some typed an introduction directly into the Posts tab of the Introductions channel. Some uploaded a video introduction. Some created a Powerpoint and uploaded the file. The second part of the assignment asked students to comment on at least 4 of their classmates introduction with a question, a comment about something they found interesting, a comment about something they had in common, and so on. I have used this assignment in every online class that I have ever taught but in the past, I used the Discussion Forums in the LMS but I was always disappointed in how stilted the interactions between students seemed. In Teams, I immediately saw a difference. When students received comments or questions on their introduction post, they responded. And then the other student responded. And then they were asking each other for their xBox login names so they could play video games together. This happened many times in this introduction channel. The students were having actual conversations.\nAs I said, Tackling a Wicked Problem is a project-based class in which students work in teams on a project that tries to address some aspect of the wicked problem. I was most worried about how to facilitate the group projects given that the class is online asynchronous. I was hopeful that MS Teams would facilitate the team interactions in ways that I have never seen work on the LMS. So for each group, I set up a private channel and added the members to the channel. Each channel has two tabs, a Posts tab and a Files tab. I created a video to explain that the Posts tab can be used for conversation while the Files tab is a space where the students can store documents that they are collaborating on. To get them started on the first activity of their project, I put an annotated bibliography template in the File space for each group. At first, the interaction was slow but as they have worked on this project (it isn\u2019t due for another couple of weeks), each group is using Teams more and more. They are having conversations, sometimes asking me questions. Because I have Teams both on my computer and my phone, I get notified when there\u2019s something that needs my attention and I can jump in immediately (if I want). Even more exciting is when they answer each other\u2019s questions which happens regularly. Their annotated bibliographies were due on Sunday of this past week. They posted them in the Files tab of their group and I was able to provide feedback right in the document for them all to see. I can also see who contributed what to the various documents.\nAt the start of the semester, I also set up a \u201cAsk Questions Here\u201d channel for students to ask any questions they might have. In my introductory materials for the class, I encouraged them to answer any of the questions that they might see in that channel if they knew the answer. The first time that a student answered a question here, I positively acknowledged the answer and again encouraged them to jump in if they know the answers. Students now regularly post questions and answer each other\u2019s questions in this channel. That\u2019s an exciting development.\nMS Teams has a chat feature and students regularly chat me there. Finally, MS Teams has a \u201cMeet Now\u201d video conferencing tool built in and several of the groups are regularly using that feature to talk about their projects.\nThe set up of the MS Team for my class can be seen in the featured image on this post. I also included an anonymized conversation among a group of students. We are still early in the semester but I am very encouraged about using MS Teams in this online asynchronous class to facilitate group projects.\nImage Credit: screenshot of the MS Team for the Fall 2020 offering IS1115.01."
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Alright, starting in 10 minutes!
Things you don’t want to miss:
🚌 The bus
🔥 Your daily lesson
🦉 DUOCON!
Tune in TODAY starting at 11AM EDT: bit.ly/32CDwNd
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This thread is astonishing.
Andy Ngo sent my grandma this piece of mail. It’s kind of hilarious
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This was a really cool talk earlier this week by Daisuke Doi at the Tokyo Video Tech meetup about ultra-low-latency (sub-second!) video live streaming using WebRTC-redistribution and no need for bespoke native clients (just a web browser!). 🙌
Slides: speakerdeck.com/daisukedoi/web…
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If they say you missed a Caturday
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JUST GO TWICE AS HARD IT IS THE SAME
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This would be very cool. Well, any of them would be.
Justice Adrienne Nelson was the first African American in Oregon’s history to sit on the state’s highest court and on any appellate state court.
Her election to a si...
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Sent ten of you lovely humans some messages. Hope it brightens your day :) 💕
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