Author Archives: D. Arnaud

Week 18: The Course (or Learning) Management System

Ko & Rossen, Chapter 11: Classroom Management and Facilitation, pp. 318-end and Chapter 12: Special Issues if you wish. Read: Lisa M Lane, Insidious Pedagogy (2009) Read: Jennifer Demski, Rebuilding the LMS for the 21st Century (2012) See Joyce Seitzinger’s Moodle Tool Guide (2010), an example of an LMS … Continue reading

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Week 16: Our Students Online

Ko & Rossen: chapter 10, Teaching online   This chapter made so much sense to me. It focuses on the obvious point that switching from an onsite class to an online course for the first time as a student is not … Continue reading

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Week 17: Classroom Management

                    I read Lisa Lane’s blog post (the seven points!): I like the way it was outlined with the short and concise paragraphs. Straight to the point. The section about getting … Continue reading

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Week 15: Creating Class Elements Part 3: Screencasting and multimedia

Ko & Rossen, Chapter 9: Creating Courseware and Using Web 2.0 Tools  ↓ There is a section in the chapter titled “Problems that students typically encounter” that, I think is important (but all chapters in this book are equally important in my … Continue reading

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Week 14, Creating Class Elements Part 2, Audio and video

  I read: Ko & Rossen, Chapter 9: Creating Courseware and Using Web 2.0 Tools, pp. 252-269 . There are some new software I never heard of very “tempting” in this chapter for creating audio files. So far, I created a YouTube … Continue reading

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Week 13: Creating Class Elements Part 1: Images and screenshots

I read the entire book before the Winter 2012 break: Ko & Rossen. I took a screenshot from my MacBookAir: here it is below above the Flickr logo I created a new account on Flickr. I added a picture with annotation:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/92891392@N06/ … Continue reading

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Week 12: Resources Online

I read chapter 8, Ko and Rossen: Copyright, Intellectual Property, and Open Educational Resources and I found some good and new information about which sites are accessible to educators to retrieve information without asking for permission and for no fee as … Continue reading

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Week 11

Video, Lawrence Lessig, How creativity is being strangled by the law: I really enjoyed watching and listening to this. Very informative and even funny at times when two topics were shown to the audience featuring politics and religion in a more “controversial” … Continue reading

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Week 10

I viewed Lisa’s slidecast on blogging  and Jim Sullivan’s  Elluminate session: it all makes sense to me. I started blogging with my students about 1 year and half ago only via my cultural blog but I do need more involvement from … Continue reading

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Week 9

I am impressed by Ko and Rossen, Teaching online a practical guide. The more I read this book, the more pertinent I find it . The information on general and specific subjects is very well explained with a simple and … Continue reading

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