This fall, I’m teaching a writing intensive undergraduate class. In lieu of writing a term paper or literature review, our class is using blogs for weekly writing and revisions and project websites (for more writing and revisions). Most of the students have not blogged before and are excited to try it out. It’s been really […]
Author: Jennifer Englund
CCC: Create a remix!
The fourth assignment in the Creative Commons course is a fun one! It asks us to create some type of a remix for a course that we teach. After browsing through some examples from my peers in the course, I came across this great creative example that Helen DeWaard made: a course trailer. I thought […]
CCC: Anatomy of a Creative Commons license
The third assignment in the Creative Commons certificate course focuses on the basics of the licenses. For each assignment, I have also been experimenting with different ways to explain and depict the content, such as a timeline and a sliderDING presentation. This week, I’m using a range of h5p content types. There are six components […]
CCC: What is copyright law?
The second assignment in the Creative Commons certificate course asks us to develop a short primer on (a lay person’s understanding of) copyright law.
I created a short sliderDING-style presentation, based on Ann Fandrey’s work in Academic …
CCC: What is Creative Commons?
Our first assignment for the Creative Commons certificate is due this week. I created a timeline that captures the key events that lead to the foundation of Creative Commons. Depending upon how the rest of the course goes, I may come back and add to this timeline in the upcoming weeks. This is a start […]
Annotation tools for online teaching and learning in higher education
This post is a short recap of collaborative annotation tools that I have found to be currently available (as of January 2018) and appear to be suitable for online teaching and learning in higher education. Over the past semesters, I have gradually been incorporating annotation tools in my online courses, starting with text and now […]
Why Open Matters
This week wraps up the first week of the Introduction to Open Education MOOC offered through UT-Arlington’s LINK Lab. One of the reasons why I am taking this course is to connect with others (already saw a fellow MN educator in the group), to compile additional resources for my lit review, and to find out […]
Personal project management software: Asana and Wrike comparison
Now that I am nearing the end of my coursework, I’m turning to plotting out the schedule for exams and the dissertation writing process. I have been using two types of project management software for personal use, both with a free account, during the month of August. Below are my thoughts about each of the […]
Active Citizen course: recap
Notes from the Active Citizen course Three spheres of democracy Political sphere encompasses government, elections, and participation in political life political involvement is public information political life is a combination of voluntary and required actions Marketplace buying things investments marketplace participation is unavoidable: marketplace activism (ie, boycotting companies) is voluntary and mostly private Civil society nonprofit […]
Open Research: reading notes
I recently finished reading one of the OER Hub‘s publications: the Open Research textbook. The book is based on content and activity from a P2PU course called Open Research that ran in 2014 and 2015. It’s organized into five chapters that consist of content, a few activities to get you thinking about how to apply […]
Podcast resurgence?
As with many folks around the U.S. it seems, I have been slowly listening to podcasts with greater frequency. I was looking through some of the podcasters that I follow to share for Thing 14, and came across this wonky episode from Fresh Air: the mashup of Downton Abbey and Walking Dead initially drew me […]
Thing 13: web-based video platforms
I’m exploring the accessibility, licensing, and features of the Vimeo platform. To do that, I looked through several of the videos in my liked and watch later categories. It was fun to re-watch these FemTechNet dialogue videos: I am not sure what type of license this video holds. It doesn’t seem to explicitly state if […]