User:Vtaylor/here be dragons/Y2014

== 2014==
 * "The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance." --Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University.

DeAnza - CIS77X DARE literacies. CIS89A Web Page Development - HTML5, CSS

2014.12 - Technology In Education: An Integrated Approach * SAMR (substitute, augment, modify, replace) * three elements of education (pedagogy, content, technology). * ed tech 'quintet' (social, mobility, visualization, storytelling, gaming)

''Excellence is Caring more than others think is wise; Risking more than others think is safe; Dreaming more than others think is practical. Expecting more than others think is possible. --Winston Churchill''

2014.11
 * 18 Chances You Will Not Regret Taking in Life
 * 5 things - happy, people admire, visit, favorite song, interests/ goals - dock of the bay, changes in latitude, love changes everything. baby what about you.

learning differences coaching
 * action plan - [|peer coaching (4:26)] co-development lessons, team teaching, review / feedback - inquiry, probing questions, think more deeply, tech integration, instructional strategies - active, engaging
 * COACHING ESSENTIAL QUESTION * RESOURCES List any ideas, concepts and/or tools gleaned from UNIT 1   that were of most value to you. * ACTION STEPS List any coaching activities you might model or facilitate to support Unit 1 ideas/concepts with colleagues? * MONITOR EFFECTIVENESS What evidence might you consider or collect to evaluate the  impact of your coaching activities


 * girl scouts - lead * healthykids
 * 2014.10 - ebola - infected, contagious people coming into us, hospital screening fail to catch, in contact with others
 * 2014.09 - ukraine, russia, nato. islamists, middle east. where are grownups, role models. stock market vs financial reality. us - divisive issues, money in politics, consumer debt, decline in workers as % of population.

2014.11
 * In a true inquiry-based model, how learning happens isn’t as important as whether that learning encourages students to try to learn even more. Lehmann compared the scenario to the plight of a two-year-old child who has graduated from “yes” and “no” and proceeded onto an endless string of “why’s.” “To me it comes down to process,” Lehmann said. “Inquiry means living in the soup. Inquiry means living in that uncomfortable space where we don’t know the answer.”

2014.08
 * ODG PATHS - course review, webinar - Marie
 * Learning how to Learn (video 17:50) - Barbara Oakly at the TEDx of Oakland University: Introduction to the course * focused mode * diffuse mode * procrastination * chunking * pomodoro - 25 minutes focused attention * slow thinking * illusions of competence in learning - build mastery - testing, practice, repetition, recall
 * Five Secrets to Personal Productivity (book) - time maps, belief window, reality model - live, love, important, variety, meaning. business - viability, respect, impact, innovation. why drill, productivity pyramid. needs - belief window - behavior - results
 * [|re-inventing the 90s] - [|Barbara Beskind] - 90year old IDEO conceptual designer, commutes by train
 * [|music and memory] - play list - beatles, 60s, united church, broadway, gilbert & sullivan
 * [|mlearning] - 1. use mobile to do stuff 2. let the learners help 3. all about context (learner centered) 4. allow space to iterate (plan for agile} 5. one size does not fit all
 * [|guide] - The key ingredients for deep creative learning are real freedom and real responsibility. Freedom allows for exploration and experimentation, while responsibility insures that both will be pursued with rigor. Interest and commitment are the prerequisites for the responsible use of freedom. There is no way that we know of to force people to be interested and committed. That must be a precondition.

2014.04
 * [|All the passwords you should change because of Heartbleed] - in one handy graphic. The Heartbleed security flaw was fixed in the newest version of OpenSSL, but you should still change your passwords on all of the sites affected by the bug.
 * [|Creekside robotics team] - ice article and pictures
 * [|April GEMS Newsletter]

pLearn [|blog] - personal learning environment - NRC / Rita

[|ELIS Wheel] explains the concept of PLE (Personal Learning Environment) from a different angle. Its implementation should allow learners to self-train throughout life. It includes four steps in the management and control of their self-training: idea from [|Deeming Wheel or PDCA (Plan Do Act Check) Wheel] for business process improvement. [|Stephen Downes’ vision for a PLE] - 1. A personal profiler that would collect and store personal information. 2. An information and resource aggregator to collect information and resources. 3. Editors and publishers enabling people to produce and publish artifacts to aid the learning and interest of others. 4. Helper applications that would provide the pedagogical backbone of the PLE and make connections with other internet services to help the learner make sense of information, applications and resources. 5. Services of the learners
 * Explore: Investigate, Find, Collect resources needed to learn new material.
 * Learn: Learn, mix and remix contents from other resources to create new content.
 * Interact: Interact with the community, create a collective intelligence and enrich other contents.
 * Socialize: Create a social network to interact with others.

functional equivalent to Stephen's artifacts to aid learners and helper application
 * [|Learning Spaces] - paths, guides for learners - assume many learners would like some direction - not curriculum exactly but include some assessment to suggest level of understanding and applicability that has been acquired/accomplished

Learn more...
 * [|Stephen Downes] - Learning Object Repositories - a harvesting-based repository network is more efficient than a repository federation.
 * [|Research Scope] - A national portal designed to raise the profile of Open Access research in Ireland. Interestingly, uses the harvester developed by the Public Knowledge Project
 * [|Scholarly Works Application Profile (SWAP)]
 * [|OAI's Object Reuse and Exchange (ORE) project]
 * [|public portfolios]
 * [|APML (Attention Profile Markup Language)] is a means of sharing an individual attention profile. APML is concerned with the mobility of a more coarse-grained profile, consisting of a collection of weighted concepts, either self-asserted or aggregated from services. The spec is generally simple enough to implement, despite a few odd design choices, consisting basically of a list of "concepts" (keywords or labels) and "sources" (URLs) that are of interest to the subject, all of which have a weighting from 0 to 1 and some additional metadata about where the weightings come from. [|APML (Attention Profile Markup Language)]

2014.08
 * CIS89A * dare report, $ july

summer 2014
 * Central Florida STEM Education Council - meeting 1 August. The focus for this meeting is Educator Resources.


 * mdc - summer, schools, swe, e4k
 * b&gc - learning literacies - nsb, ??
 * eng4kids / swe - dana, becky, jill at bst, andrea ucf
 * schs - fall
 * WE-GSoC - peer review, registration - code review, mid-term evaluation
 * moocs - #moolx - More Open Online guided self-directed Learning eXperience, less course than #mooc
 * swe - erau, andrea ucf, http://www.fabfems.org/

Community Empowerment
 * Udemy https://www.udemy.com/course-manage/edit-getting-started/?courseId=244504
 * http://wikieducator.org/Introduction_to_Community_Empowerment/Community_Empowerment_Introduction_-_Readings
 * http://cec.vcn.bc.ca/cmp/modules/emp-12.htm

Project management migration from Canvas to Udemy - Jacky
 * instructor course https://www.udemy.com/official-udemy-instructor-course/#/lecture/213442
 * checklist https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1SbCv-uFZk6LiUh0D8tuwRmlK1Ybgnom0wXIPjvjuOdg
 * lectures - video (60%), audio, text, document, presentation, mashup
 * Canvas https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/857406/pages/front-page

Open Doors - open education. education
 * education - http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/education (an education) An enlightening experience: a day with those kids was an education in patience and forbearance

EDUCA''TION, n. [L. educatio.] The bringing up, as of a child, instruction; formation of manners. Education comprehends all that series of instruction and discipline which is intended to enlighten the understanding, correct the temper, and form the manners and habits of youth, and fit them for usefulness in their future stations. To give children a good education in manners, arts and science, is important; to give them a religious education is indispensable; and an immense responsibility rests on parents and guardians who neglect these duties.
 * http://www.design-your-homeschool.com/Definition-of-Education.html In Websters 1828 Dictionary we read this definition:


 * https://coopcatalyst.wordpress.com/2011/11/18/the-definition-of-education/ Education should allow students to define themselves, it should encourage such definition to take place from the student


 * http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/education the process of teaching or learning in a school or college, or the knowledge that you get from this:


 * Valerie Taylor is a long-time advocate and curator for Open Educational Resources, MOOCs and wikis including Wikipedia, Connectivism and Connective Knowledge, Community College Open Textbooks, and Hewlett Foundation funded projects. She has contributed to several publications on open education, personal learning networks and distance learning. As a K-14 educator, Valerie continues to promote Engineering within the context of STEM education and open learning. She is an elected member of the WikiEducator Community Council, encouraging the growing adoption of open access learning through the developed and developing world. Valerie holds a B.Sc from the University of Toronto and a M.Sc in Education for CSU East Bay.

2014.04

Community Empowerment
 * http://cec.vcn.bc.ca/cmp/modules/emp-ce.htm - main
 * https://www.onlinevolunteering.org/en/vol/login.html - UN Volunteers - login

Sophie Blanchard (25 March 1778 – 6 July 1819) was a French aeronaut and the wife of ballooning pioneer Jean-Pierre Blanchard.

Aviation related achievements
 * married to Jean-Pierre Blanchard, the world's first professional balloonist, Sophie was first woman to work as a professional balloonist, specializing in night flights
 * the first woman to pilot her own balloon
 * Napoleon made her "Aeronaut of the Official Festivals"
 * first woman to be killed in an aviation accident - July 1819 during a display over the Tivoli Gardens in Paris. Her hydrogen-filled balloon caught fire and Blanchard, entangled in the surrounding net, fell to her death.
 * personal characteristic - Sophie was hard working and resourceful. After her husband's death, she was able to work as a balloonist to pay off their debts.
 * WOW and Spruce Creek today - Independent, adventurous, Sophie would fit right in.
 * other


 * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sophie_Blanchard - pictures
 * http://www.quickiwiki.com/en/Sophie_Blanchard
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Blanchard
 * http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/sophie-blanchard-the-high-flying-frenchwoman-who-revealed-the-thrill-and-danger-of-ballooning-89106237/?no-ist
 * http://forgottennewsmakers.com/2010/09/15/sophie-blanchard-1778-%E2%80%931819-first-women-to-fly-solo-in-a-hot-air-balloon/
 * http://fly.historicwings.com/2012/07/sophie-blanchard-first-woman-balloon-pilot/
 * http://ultimatehistoryproject.com/sophie-blanchard-a-new-film-by-jen-sachs.html
 * http://thehistorychicks.com/?p=1912

A good Essential Question
 * 1)  is open-ended; i.e., it typically will not have a single, final, and correct answer.
 * 2)  is thought-provoking and intellectually engaging, meant to spark discussion and debate.
 * 3)  calls for high-order thinking, such as analysis, inference, evaluation, prediction. It cannot be effectively answered by recall alone.
 * 4)  points toward important, transferable ideas within (and sometimes across) disciplines.
 * 5)  raises additional questions and sparks further inquiry.
 * 6)  requires support and justification, not just an answer.
 * 7)  recurs over time; i.e., the question can and should be re-visited again and again.

https://novoed.com/mastering-language-common-core-2/home
 * Mastering Language for the Common Core State Standards: Focus on Mathematics in Elementary Grades

https://class.coursera.org/organalysis-003
 * Organizational Analysis

2014.02

Continually improving our students ability to read, write and add up is important, but so is their ability to sing and dance and play and paint and draw. We need well rounded students who enjoy learning, who discover what it means to be truly literate, not just with words and numbers but in all senses of the word. Make no mistake, no matter how you look at it, going “back to basics” is still going backwards. --Chris Betcher


 * NASA/NSTA Open Online Course: Teaching Tomorrow’s Engineers - Middle school educators are invited to join NASA and NSTA in this open online course to learn more about the engineering design process. Participants of the course will discover how to use NASA resources to engage students and guide them in engineering design challenges. The course will provide practical strategies for implementing the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and discuss ideas for teaching the disciplinary core idea of Engineering, Technology and the Application of Science. http://learningcenter.nsta.org/default.aspx


 * Designing for Deeper Learning: How to Develop Performance Tasks for the Common Core https://novoed.com/learning-design-common-core


 * Constructive Classroom Conversations: Mastering Language for the Common Core State Standards (Secondary) http://online.stanford.edu/course/common-core-language-secondary-w14


 * "(A MOOC) is not a group of people trying to reach some destination together. It’s a place where individuals pursuing their own interest and objectives can interact in a way that mutually supports each other." Also: "the concept of MOOCs is open online learning in a networks kind of infrastructure. This is not simply a teaching mechanism. This is a social perceptual mechanism. A MOOC is a perceptual device for recognising whether a person is capable and competent in that subject area." --OLDaily


 * Continually improving our students ability to read, write and add up is important, but so is their ability to sing and dance and play and paint and draw. We need well rounded students who enjoy learning, who discover what it means to be truly literate, not just with words and numbers but in all senses of the word. Make no mistake, no matter how you look at it, going “back to basics” is still going backwards. --Chris Betcher

Open Content Licensing for Educators (OCL4Ed 14.02) micro Open Online Course - starts on 5 February 2014.
 * http://wikieducator.org/Open_content_licensing_for_educators/Course_dashboard
 * https://plus.google.com/communities/101164183090938345449?hl=en The UNESCO-COL OER Chair network and the OERu

2014.01
 * copyright


 * rhizo14 https://p2pu.org/en/courses/882/rhizomatic-learning-the-community-is-the-curriculum/ -

Crafting Your ePerfect eTextbook
 * free open online course, . In 5 weeks work with authors, material writers, teacher trainers, and 100s of teachers around the world to create the 1st chapter of an etextbook to fit your class needs. http://ebookevo.pbworks.com/w/page/70262228/Welcome
 * https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ibly45MDgrpqctbMpw6G955s1hXyBy6vrxZy4pMtNkg/pub

SF 2014.01
 * http://events.sfgate.com/performers/show/1124952-beach-blanket-babylon
 * dining http://www.dineabouttown.com/ - sushi w
 * http://www.fogfair.com/ fri-sun fort mason $20
 * http://www.commonwealthclub.org/events - http://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2014-01-14/dr-ed-lu-protecting-earth-asteroids-why-we-may-not-see-them-coming $20 tue 6:00
 * http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-thursday-showcase-tickets-9069014667 improv th
 * http://thirdthursdaysf.wordpress.com/ - yerba buena th 5-10


 * Hockney exhibit
 * kb walk fri 10
 * sailing
 * yc dinner
 * netflix - forks over knives, downton abbey
 * fitness - core, upper body


 * Berkeley, Rockcliff
 * San Jose - The Tech, ? Julie, deanza


 * http://www.commonwealthclub.org/events

2014

Year of the Wood Horse 2014 - - starts on January 31, 2014
 * colours of the Wood feng shui element - all shades of green and brown. Water and Earth elements, because these two elements support the Wood in its growth and well-being. So, colours blue and black (Water element colours) as well as all earthy tones (Earth element)
 * natural crystals and stones with the presence of Wood energy, such as green jade, agate, green tourmaline and malachite. Also good are crystals and stones with the presence of Water element energy - such as turquoise, aquamarine, pearls, kyanite, lapis lazuli and moonstone. Or, go for black colour ones, such as black obsidian, black tourmaline or black onyx.


 * Blue - Water feng shui element. This color is excellent for use in the feng shui bagua areas of East (Health & Family) and Southeast (Wealth & Abundance) of your home or office, as Water energy nourishes the Wood element of these two feng shui areas.


 * vt Dog Fire 2014. mt Pig Fire