Re: [WikiEducator] Abridged summary of wikieducator@googlegroups.com - 1 update in 1 topic

2016-04-30 Thread Valerie Taylor
DeAnza College funded the development of a course called Digital Learning Literacties. http://wikieducator.org/User:Vtaylor/Learning_literacies The Digital Learning Literacies course not offered as a stand-alone course. The activities and resources are used within other courses with great

[WikiEducator] Professional Development for STEM

2013-06-27 Thread Valerie Taylor
I volunteer with the New Smyrna Beach Boys Girls Club. We have been awarded a NASA Summer of Innovation mini-award. http://www.soi-mini-awards.com/ Over the next 8 weeks we will be doing hands-on STEM activities with the middle school kids (going into grades 5-9). We will be recording the

[WikiEducator] Fwd: You Tube applications and OER use?

2012-08-04 Thread Valerie Taylor
Jim is doing some great work on Math resources. He has a question that I'm hoping someone else can answer better than I can. -- Forwarded message -- From: Jim Kelly k-12m...@sbcglobal.net Date: Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 2:08 PM Subject: You Tube applications and OER use? To: Valerie

[WikiEducator] BYOD Bring Your Own Device working group?

2012-06-17 Thread Valerie Taylor
Perhaps now would be a good time to set up a BYOD Bring Your Own Device working group to address using mobile, personal and pocket devices in open learning. I'm looking into smartphones and tablets in education. I teach at a community college and I am working with a K-8 science and technology

[WikiEducator] Apple does eTextbooks

2012-01-20 Thread Valerie Taylor
This was announce by Apple yesterday January 19. http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/19/apple-textbook-event/ How will this impact WikiEducator and Open Textbooks? If the major publishers are getting involved at the outset, perhaps they think some money via Apple is better than no money and no

[WikiEducator] Apple does eTextbooks

2012-01-20 Thread Valerie Taylor
Here is a post from the folks on the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) list. Their concerns are similar about content, and different as there are non-Apple hardware concerns / considerations as well. Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 04:19:31 + From: Aaron Baca ab...@partnerasp.com To:

[WikiEducator] Accredited Online Colleges

2011-11-17 Thread Valerie Taylor
http://www.accreditedonlinecolleges.net/ I just heard about this - is anyone familiar with the group? Does your institution participate? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit