Allison Rossett

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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

The information aggregation tools are used to collect and organize information from various resources (websites, podcasts, blogs). RSS readers allow educators to rapidly skim through hundreds of blog posts and articles to find the most relevant information to their practice. An Educator’s Professional Learning Network.

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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

The information aggregation tools are used to collect and organize information from various resources (websites, podcasts, blogs). RSS readers allow educators to rapidly skim through hundreds of blog posts and articles to find the most relevant information to their practice. An Educator’s Professional Learning Network.

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My first MOOC

Allison Rossett

While the instructors provided feedback criteria, they did no monitoring at all. Thomas Friedman’s most recent op-ed piece on MOOCs – Clearly, MOOCs have captured his imagination, and whatever he writes about tends to be taken seriously by business leaders. I did not feel as close to my peers as I have felt in other classes.

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My daughter, poster child for 21st Century learning

Allison Rossett

I was able to fill them out using the highlighter and sticky note option in Adobe reader giving me a place to write my answers. highlight important things, make comments on what you have underlined and write an 8-10 sentence review on the article. Visit Ken’s blog. I then emailed them back to my teacher.

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My daughter, poster child for 21st Century learning

Allison Rossett

I was able to fill them out using the highlighter and sticky note option in Adobe reader giving me a place to write my answers. highlight important things, make comments on what you have underlined and write an 8-10 sentence review on the article. Visit Ken’s blog. I then emailed them back to my teacher.

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Instructional Design: Something Old, Something New

Allison Rossett

I harkened back to these findings after reading Xyleme CLO Jeffrey Katzman’s provocative blog posting about new instructional design. Are the flaws in line 7 caused by not knowing how to write it up? Katzman proclaims “a new world for the instructional designer,” with 3-ring binders kicked to the curb.

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Instructional Design: Something Old, Something New

Allison Rossett

I harkened back to these findings after reading Xyleme CLO Jeffrey Katzman’s provocative blog posting about new instructional design. Are the flaws in line 7 caused by not knowing how to write it up? Katzman proclaims “a new world for the instructional designer,” with 3-ring binders kicked to the curb.