Connected Courses Events

Sep
2
Tue
Move In – Registration – Orientation Live Session
Sep 2 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Move In - Registration - Orientation Live Session

Mon., Sep 2, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Hangouts On Air – Broadcast for free 

Jim Groom, Alan Levine, and Howard Rheingold will talk about the how and why of setting up your blog for Connected Courses http://connectedcourses.net/thecourse/pre-course/ — we will take questions via Twitter hashtag #ccourses

Readings:  http://connectedcourses.net/setting-up/

 

 

Sep
12
Fri
Move In – Orientation – Registration Live Session #2
Sep 12 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Move In - Orientation - Registration Live Session #2
Fri, Sep 12, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Jim Groom, Alan Levine, Howard Rheingold will help you get set up, talk about the how and why of blogging for Connected Courses http://connectedcourses.net/thecourse/pre-course/ — will take questions via Twitter hashtag #ccourses
Sep
15
Mon
Unit 1 – The End of Higher Education
Sep 15 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Unit 1 - The End of Higher Education

September 15, 2014 1 PM PST/3 PM CST/ 4 PM EST via Google Live Hangout.

Participants: Mike Wesch, Cathy Davidson, Randy Bass

Title: The End of Higher Education

Description:  As shrinking budgets, skeptical publics, and rising alternatives continue to threaten the end of higher education, we host this conversation as a contemplation of what the end – or purpose – of higher education should be.  We will also reflect on how individual teachers might find their own core reason for teaching a specific class, and ways to build buy-in to that reason among students.

Presenters will take questions via Twitter hashtag #ccourses

Sep
19
Fri
Unit 1 – Blogside Chat with Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, Authors of Academically Adrift and Aspiring Adults Adrift
Sep 19 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Unit 1 - Blogside Chat with Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, Authors of Academically Adrift and Aspiring Adults Adrift

Live EventFriday, September 19, 2014 @ 11 AM PT/1 PM CST/ 2 PM EST  

Blogside Chat with Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, Authors of Academically Adrift and Aspiring Adults Adrift

Hosted by Mimi Ito

In their 2011 book, Academically Adrift, Arum and Roksa described the sobering reality that 45% of college students demonstrate very little learning during their first two years of college. They outline a shifting culture of higher education that increasingly prioritizes social and recreational campus life at the expense of academics and developing critical thinking, writing, and reasoning skills. Just released, Aspiring Adults Adrift reports on this same cohort of students as they entered the job market during the great recession. This new book paints a complex portrait of young people as they reflect on their lives and college experiences, analyzing the kinds of capacities they need to develop in order to thrive as adults. Join Mimi Ito in a conversation with the authors to discuss the implications of their research for our responsibilities as faculty and the purpose of our courses.

Presenters will take questions via Twitter hashtag #ccourses

Readings:

Your So-Called Education (NY Times)

Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses

Aspiring Adults Adrift: Tentative Transitions of College Graduates

Sep
22
Mon
Unit 1 – Describing the Why of Connected Learning
Sep 22 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Join Mimi Ito, Vera Michalchik, and William Penuel September 22, 2014 at 1:00 PM PSt. Post your questions and comments via Twitter using the #CCourses hashtag.

As educators who support connected learning experiences for our students, we often struggle to describe what we think are the deepest and most resilient learning outcomes that go beyond content mastery and skill development. Researching connected learning also involves similar challenges. We are beginning to develop research tools for documenting the features of connected learning environments, and capturing student experiences of social connection, self-expression, relevance, and interests that are at the core of connected learning. We will reflect on our ongoing research on connected learning, and offer a student survey tool that faculty can use to get at some of these broader outcomes.

Presenters will take questions via Twitter hashtag #ccourses

survey

 

 

 

 

Sep
25
Thu
How is #ccourses going?
Sep 25 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
How is #ccourses going?

Where should it go? Let’s unconference about it! with Howard Rheingold

Connected Courses is off to a great start, but great starts don’t guarantee success. I’d like to get a better sense of how the course is being perceived and how participants would like to see it go in the future — and will communicate what I find out to the other facilitators. So I’m going to host a couple of online unconferences. I’m going to use the Collaborate platform for that. It has the disadvantage of being Java-based and proprietary (and owned by Blackboard, at that), but it has the advantages of enabling up to 49 people besides me to participate (which means text chat, audio, and video) and it has an anonymous interactive whiteboard that is perfect for an unconference kind of agenda. Here’s how it works:

Schedule: We have learners all over the world, so I’m going to host the first session at 6 PM Pacific this coming Thursday, September 25, and the second one at 9:30 AM Pacific the following Wednesday, October 1.

Agenda: It’s up to you! We’ll make anonymous suggestions on the whiteboard at the beginning, then informally vote on them.

How: First, make sure you have the latest Java installed and enabled in your browser. Next, use this link to see if you are set up properly:

 http://support.blackboardcollaborate.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=8336&task=knowledge&questionID=1473

Finally, I will open the room 10-15 minutes before the appointed start time. Use this link to get in:

https://bit.ly/collaboratehoward

You will want to set up your microphone and camera. Go to the Tools menu, the Audio submenu, and the Audio setup wizard. It’s best to use a headset. In any case, you need to click on the audio link in the audio-video panel to turn your microphone on. Keep it turned off while others are talking.

Sep
29
Mon
Unit 2 – Social Capital and PLNs: Discovering, Building, and Cultivating Networks of Learners
Sep 29 @ 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Unit 2 - Social Capital and PLNs: Discovering, Building, and Cultivating Networks of Learners

Date: Monday, September 29, 2013
Time: 4:30 PM PT/6:30 CT/7:30 ET

What is Social Capital? How does it shape educational contexts and experiences? How can educators be strategic in developing Social Capital and Professional Learning Networks to support connections and Learning? In this session, a range of scholars, practitioners, and educational designers will be sharing their perspectives and practices in uncovering, building, and cultivating social capital and networks of learners.

Participants
Kira Baker-Doyle – Assistant Professor of Education, Arcadia University. Author of The Networked Teacher.
Christina Cantrill – Senior Program Associate, National Writing Project & Director of NWP Digital Is project
Meenoo Rami – Teacher, Science Leadership Academy (Philadelphia, PA), Author of Thrive: 5 Ways to (Re)Invigorate Your Teaching
Howard Rheingold
Shelly Sanchez Terrell- Teacher Trainer, Instructional Designer, Author of The 30 Goals Challenge for Teachers & Learning to Go

Oct
1
Wed
How is #ccourses going?
Oct 1 @ 9:30 am – 10:30 am
How is #ccourses going?

Where should it go? Let’s unconference about it! with Howard Rheingold

Connected Courses is off to a great start, but great starts don’t guarantee success. I’d like to get a better sense of how the course is being perceived and how participants would like to see it go in the future — and will communicate what I find out to the other facilitators. So I’m going to host a couple of online unconferences. I’m going to use the Collaborate platform for that. It has the disadvantage of being Java-based and proprietary (and owned by Blackboard, at that), but it has the advantages of enabling up to 49 people besides me to participate (which means text chat, audio, and video) and it has an anonymous interactive whiteboard that is perfect for an unconference kind of agenda. Here’s how it works:

Schedule: We have learners all over the world, so I’m going to host the first session at 6 PM Pacific this coming Thursday, September 25, and the second one at 9:30 AM Pacific the following Wednesday, October 1.

Agenda: It’s up to you! We’ll make anonymous suggestions on the whiteboard at the beginning, then informally vote on them.

How: First, make sure you have the latest Java installed and enabled in your browser. Next, use this link to see if you are set up properly:

 http://support.blackboardcollaborate.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=8336&task=knowledge&questionID=1473

Finally, I will open the room 10-15 minutes before the appointed start time. Use this link to get in:

https://bit.ly/collaboratehoward

You will want to set up your microphone and camera. Go to the Tools menu, the Audio submenu, and the Audio setup wizard. It’s best to use a headset. In any case, you need to click on the audio link in the audio-video panel to turn your microphone on. Keep it turned off while others are talking.

Oct
10
Fri
Unit 2 – Online Privacy, Trust and Security
Oct 10 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Join us as we wrap up Unit 2 of Connected Courses with a webinar that will focus on how trust is built and rebuilt both on and offline.

 

Get involved in the discussion and ask questions during the live webinar by using the #CCourses hashtag via Twitter. 

 

The webinar features:

  • Kira Baker-Doyle, assistant professor of education at Arcadia University and author of “The Networked Teacher”;
  • Meredith Broussard, assistant professor of journalism and Temple Univeristy in Philadelphia;
  • Ulrich Boser, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and author of “The Leap: The Science of Trust and Why It Matters” and “The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World’s Largest Unsolved Art Theft”;
  • Nishant Shah,  founder and director of research for the Bangalore-based Centre for Internet and Society; and
  • Jonathan Worth, award-winning photographer, Coventry University professor and leading teacher of open-learning photography courses, including Phonar Nation.

Oct
13
Mon
Unit 3 – Web Imperatives: Four Lightning Talks from Four Web Makers
Oct 13 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Unit 3 - Web Imperatives: Four Lightning Talks from Four Web Makers

Oct. 13, 10 a.m. PDT / 1 p.m. EDT, “Web Imperatives: Four Lightning Talks from Four Web Makers”

http://youtu.be/CUYI9N0FR6M

Web makers and university educators will discuss the World Wide Web and online literacy in two upcoming webinars that are part of the free online course, “Connected Courses.” The live webinars will take place Oct. 13 and 17.

This webinar features:

    • W. Gardner Campbell, vice provost for Learning Innovation and Student Success and associate professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University
    • Laura Hilliger, training and curriculum lead at Mozilla Foundation
    • Kim Jaxon, assistant professor of English at Chico State
    • Howard Rheingold, digital media expert and educator

Oct
17
Fri
Unit 3 – What is Web Literacy? Threshold Concepts and the Possibilities of the Open Web
Oct 17 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Unit 3 - What is Web Literacy? Threshold Concepts and the Possibilities of the Open Web

Oct. 17, 10 a.m. PDT / 1 p.m. EDT, “What is Web Literacy? Threshold Concepts and the Possibilities of the Open Web”

http://youtu.be/-rdedm9k2fk

This webinar features:

    • Patrick Berry, product manager at Build.com
    • W. Gardner Campbell, vice provost for Learning Innovation and Student Success and associate professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University
    • Laura Hilliger, training and curriculum lead at Mozilla Foundation
    • Kim Jaxon, assistant professor of English at Chico State
    • Mark Surman, Mozilla Foundation’s executive director
    • Howard Rheingold, digital media expert and educator

Viewers are welcome to post questions and comments during the live webinars via Twitter using the hashtag, #CCourses.

Oct
23
Thu
Unit 3 – Thinking Like the Web”: A Conversation with Jon Udell
Oct 23 @ 10:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Unit 3 - Thinking Like the Web": A Conversation with Jon Udell

Jon Udell is an author, information architect, software developer, and new media innovator–and he’s on a mission to bring the surprising effectiveness of “thinking like the web” to non-techies everywhere. Conversation moderated by Gardner Campbell.



Oct
27
Mon
Unit 4 – Class 1: How to Build Inclusive Learning Collectives
Oct 27 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am
Unit 4 - Class 1:  How to Build Inclusive Learning Collectives

Monday, October 27, 2014 8 AM PDT/10 AM CDT/ 11 AM EDT

via Google Live Hangout.

Participants: Lisa Nakamura, Elizabeth Losh, Anne Balsamo

Goals / Topics:

Feminist learning networks in and about Technology

The Case of the FemTechNet Collective

Describe the DOCC as alternative genre of MOOC

How is the DOCC a distributed learning network?


  • Live Dialogue:  Anne Balsamo, moderated by Liz Losh
    • Talking point:  3 things to have teachers think about when designing courses to be delivered on the web:  How NOT to be sexist and racist when designing web-based courses!
  • Weekly Newsletter = New Materials posted on FemTechNet Digest Magazine

Reading / Background Material:

 

Oct
30
Thu
Unit 4 – Class 2: Making Teaching with Technology Fair and Open
Oct 30 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Unit 4 - Class 2: Making Teaching with Technology Fair and Open

Thursday, October 30, 2014 4 PM PDT/6 PM CDT/ 7 PM EDT

via Google Live Hangout.

Participants: Lisa Nakamura, Liz Losh

Goals / Topics:

Designing for diversity when teaching connected courses: race, class, gender, and sexuality

Reading / Background Material:

Issues can include FERPA, providing models, etc.

 

Nov
5
Wed
Unit 4 – Class #3: Teaching Wikipedia Editing
Nov 5 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Unit 4 - Class #3: Teaching Wikipedia Editing

Wednesday, November 5, 2014 3 PM PDT/5 PM CDT/ 6 PM EDT

via Google Live Hangout.

Participants: Anne Balsamo, Veronica Parades, Lisa Nakamura

SESSION ACTIVITY

Intro to Wikistorming (facilitated by Veronica Paredes)

  • How To:  Video / Resources on Wikistorming
  • Connected Courses Wikistorming Exercise


Reading / Background Material:

 

 

Nov
10
Mon
Unit 5 – Class #1: The Case of #etmooc
Nov 10 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Unit 5 - Class #1: The Case of #etmooc

November 10, 7 PM Pacific/9 PM CST/10 PM EST

Developing community in a MOOC.

Panelists: Alec Couros, Mia Zamora, Howard Rheingold, former students of #etmooc

Nov
12
Wed
Unit 5 – Twitter Chat #colearning
Nov 12 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Unit 5 - Twitter Chat #colearning

November 12, 6 PM Pacific /8 PM CST/ 9 PM EST. Hosted by Mia Zamora and Lee Skallerup Bessette

We will combine the #ccourses community with the #fycchat for a discussion of peer learning.  Hashtag #colearning Twitter chat prompts: Q1:  What pedagogic practices lead to and nurture a co-learning environment? Q2:  What kinds of assignments lead to a co-learning environment? Q3:  How do we support co-learners to develop their own inquiry-led projects? Q4:  What pedagogic practices support co-learners to develop their own professional learning networks? Q5: What cautions should we consider as we have students develop personal learning networks?


Nov
17
Mon
Unit 5 – Class #2: Co-Learning and Authority
Nov 17 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Unit 5 - Class #2: Co-Learning and Authority

November 17, 5 PM Pacific/7 PM CST/8 PM EST

How to foster and support peer learning while negotiating authority in a connected learning environment

Panelists: Howard Rheingold, Mia Zamora, Alec Couros, Lee Skallerup Bessette, Charlotte Pierce, Joe Corneli

Nov
19
Wed
Unit 5 – Class #3: Successful Co-learning Models
Nov 19 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Unit 5 - Class #3: Successful Co-learning Models

November 19, 5 PM Pacific/7 PM CST/8 PM EST

Highlights from exemplary connected learning approaches

Panelists: Cathy Davidson & 3 of her students, David Preston and a students, Mia Zamora, Howard Rheingold, & Alec Couros

Dec
1
Mon
Unit 6 – Class 1: Connected by Design
Dec 1 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Unit 6 - Class 1: Connected by Design

In this session Kim Jaxon, Jaimie Hoffman, Danielle Astengo, Jeremy Wallace, and Jim Groom will be discussing various approaches to building a connected courses infrastructure for individual assignments, or an entire course. This session will showcase various sites faculty and graduate students have created over the semester, and hopefully inspire others to create their own connected course hub.

Via Google Hangout

Dec
4
Thu
Continuing Connected Courses
Dec 4 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Continuing Connected Courses

Join us as we launch new collaborations and visions going forward at #CCourses in the spring.

Webinar participants: Jonathan Worth, Mimi Ito, Kim Jaxon, and Alan Levine.

You also may participate in the realtime chat by using  the #ccourses and #notover hashtags.

Dec
5
Fri
Unit 6 – Class 2: Connecting to the IndieWeb Movement
Dec 5 @ 9:00 am – 10:00 am
Unit 6 - Class 2: Connecting to the IndieWeb Movement

This session will explore the IndieWeb movement as a people-centered response to the corporate web. How do the core IndieWeb principles of owning your content, remaining better connected, and putting you in control intersect with values of connected learning? Tune in and find out.

Join Jim Groom, Mikhail Gershovich, Ben Werdmuller, Erin Jo Richey, and Simon Thomson for an engaging conversation.

Via G+Hangout.

 

Dec
12
Fri
Continuing Connected Courses Part 2
Dec 12 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Continuing Connected Courses Part 2

Join us as we launch new collaborations and visions going forward at #CCourses in the spring.

Webinar participants: Laura Ritchie, Mia Zamora, Gardner Campbell, and Mimi Ito / Kim Jaxon on Twitter.