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Michael Connell on writing the world’s first bitcoin comedy routine. “Loved your jokes. Here’s some bitcoins.” That short email was where it all started. Some stranger was sending me some bitcoin because he liked my routine about fiat currency. It was a short stand-up piece that I’d performed on an Australian TV show and then posted on YouTube. I bashed fiat pretty hard and it must’ve hit a chord because I got quite a few emails. One of them was from this guy sending me bitcoins… I was vaguely aware of Bitcoin, but didn’t really know too much about it.

But now someone was offering me some of this strange new currency I started getting curious. Clicking on the link in the email took me to coinapult. I’m not sure if it was the process of figuring out how to set up a wallet, or the fact I now owned a bitcoin (well, 0.007 of one), but from that point on… I had bitcoin fever. Over the next few months I read everything about bitcoin I could find. I knew I had to do a stand-up routine on bitcoin. I also realised something else… “I have to do a segment on Bitcoin.” Cognitive Design » Blog Archive » Microlearning that Boosts Performance. The Chief Learning Officer magazine ran a recent article on microlearning - In Learning, Size Matters. The idea is to deliver bite-sized learning experiences when needed that are fully integrated into work. The emphasis is on improving performance by learning from immediate experience. While this may remind some of learning objects, we are now in the era of posts, tweets and smart phone reminders.

The article includes comments from readers, for example: Parul Gupta: Bite-sized learning is what sticks with learners. I’ve seen that too but how do we design microlearning experiences? For example, I recent developed 5 decks that support microlearning the competencies of innovation. Something that takes only a few minutes and can easily be integrated into snack or meal time. Knowledge cards are one way to design and deliver microlearning on a wide variety of topics.

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Pearltrees videos. Lanceford.net. How to Leverage Backchanneling & the Long Tail of Learning. We’ve all been there. Two colleagues across the room tap away at their phones, while the principal describes the rationale for cutbacks in funding for new technology initiatives. (Or switch out the colleagues for students while you are delivering an essential lecture on freedom of speech.) Their jabbing thumbs are punctuated by muffled giggles, as the digital text flies across the room. Is this a rude disruption or an extension of learning? At a conference, the speaker is riveting in his call for student empowerment through 21st-century learning. In an online synchronous webinar, Will Richardson shares his slides about the shifts in how we think about our privacy, our interactions with strangers on the Internet, and the powerful impact on education of some of the interactions we undertake every day. Should we teach students to backchannel effectively?

The backchannel chat has become a fixture of our culture, like it or not. How do we leverage the backchanneling students already do? Info Curation and Aggregation Services, Tools & Apps. <div class="greet_block wpgb_cornered"><div class="greet_text"><div class="greet_image"><a href=" rel="nofollow"><img src=" alt="WP Greet Box icon"/></a></div>Hello there! If you are new here, you might want to <a href=" rel="nofollow"><strong>subscribe to the RSS feed</strong></a> for updates on this topic. <div style="clear:both"></div></div></div> As citizens and learners we can develop valuable critical thinking and literacy skills as we consume media curated by other individuals as well as curate and share our own.

By doing these things, we are creating the new digital newspapers of the 21st century. As educators and parents we need to become effective information curators and sharers, modeling these behaviors as we connect them with critical thinking for our children and students. Sent from my iPad. Rubrics for Assessment. Learn more about our Online Courses, Online Certificate Programs, and Graduate Degree A collection of rubrics for assessing portfolios, group work/cooperative learning, concept map, research process/ report, PowerPoint, oral presentation, web page, blog, wiki, and other social media projects. Quick Links to Rubrics Social Media Project Rubrics Wiki RubricCriteria for assessing individual and group Wiki contributions.

Blog RubricAssess individual blog entries, including comments on peers' blogs. Twitter RubricAssess learning during social networking instructional assignments. Discussion, Teamwork, and Group Work Rubrics Online Discussion Board RubricAssessing ability to share perspectives, refine thoughts through the writing process, and participate in meaningful discussionPrimary Grade Self-Evaluation Teamwork Rubric (PDF)Features of a sandwich to graphically show the criteria PowerPoint and Podcast Rubrics A+ PowerPoint Rubric Joan Vandervelde's rubric provides 10 performance categories.