Comments on: A Wee Bit Me Too Much Yacking

By: Fat Cats Make Better Art History Assignments | mbransons

Fat Cats Make Better Art History Assignments | mbransons — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:17:34 +0000

[...] we are going to play with digital storytelling as a tool for teaching and learning. In one of Alan Levine’s talks about digital storytelling, he included a slide quoting Ruben Puentedura on the value of learning [...]

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Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:12:34 +0000

By: Tom Fullerton

Tom Fullerton — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 19:39:51 +0000

Hm. I don’t know, I kinda like it when you talk. Just wish I was there to listen more often.

I find it especially challenging to read the pulse of a group when facilitating an online gathering to know when to show more and when to let them do more. When you can’t see their faces or hear their sighs, it is difficult to know when they are in cognitive overload and need to “do stuff.”

Ideally, we would be able to send them all the “talk” (readings, examples, videos presentations, etc.) before the class, they would engage and come ready with their own artifacts to share and unpack the experience.

So, perhaps if you can’t offer that kind of participatory experience, just keep barking my friend (or howling as the case may be ;)

Tom

By: Michael Branson Smith

Michael Branson Smith — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 19:31:47 +0000

Meh, says the yak in the audience? I doubt it, and don’t think you need to beat yourself up about it. A good talk is still a good talk, and the slides you put together showcase something interesting. I bet Dean’s students would agree.