Excited about starting a new semester.  I would like students to post information about life goals. Welcome to another great opportunity to expand your universe. Enjoy the ride.  

What an amazing educational journey.  I want to thank all the POTCERT instructors, mentors and contributors.  I have learned so much in the last two years, yes two years.  It took me longer to understand and grow with the material presented.  I definitely had no knowledge of the body of information I would be introduced […]

Hello All You Hard Working POTCERT Folk, What a great experience to create a Prezi about Learning Theories.  When we did the work for the week 19 discussion about Learning Theories I commented to my honey how this was a subject I knew very little about and was glad for the week’s work.  Then I […]

The idea that I have an “Ethical Responsibility” as explained byDean Shareski, in the video Sharing: The Moral Imperative was such a powerful concept.  As stated, that if education is sharing we have a moral imperative to share with the world not just our little pod of learners.  We see so many examples of educators […]

I always gain so much from the Ko and Rosen material.  Reminded me how much fun you can have just recording bits of your lecture and adding it to your online course content.  My class consists of a lot of form completion type of work and this lends itself to a screencast presentation quickly and […]

There was a lot of information shared this week and I again learned much. I wanted to post a bit of  Jaron Lanier’s article that I found particularly interesting. Does the Digital Classroom Enfeeble the Mind? By JARON LANIER Published: September 16, 2010 “How can you be ambidextrous in the matter of technology and education? […]

Quite a lot of great information to review.  When thinking over my teaching style, I feel that depending on the course I am teaching I shift my emphasis. In some courses I have a more instructivism/behaviorism approach with a constructivist approach split.  I start class with 15 minutes of group flashcard work, while I am […]

I use Blackboard as my LMS at MiraCosta and Palomar College.  At El Camino I use Etudes as the LMS.  I really like the options available with Blackboard and really like the mashup option for quick instruction videos.  I am still learning all the options in Blackboard and continue to update my knowledge.  I also […]

Really found the information on our students’ involvement with the rapid fire, at your fingertips, constant information and immediate gratification world to be quite enlightening.  We have to juggle, dance and sing to get just a bit of their attention.  So, we attempt to make our information more engaging, more accessible and more varied.  As […]

http://youtu.be/U7-p98JbFvg I thought I would kill two birds with one stone.  I needed to make a tutorial for my students and a screencast for this.  So I created  this Screencast-o-Matic tutorial for my medical billing and coding class.  My class has a lot of trouble understanding the textbook description of claim form completion.  I have […]