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From Watcher to Maker

Jaime Donally hosts #txeduchat on “Making”

Sunday, May 1st at 8pm Central 

@jaimedonally

@jaimedonally

Jaime Donally is an Instructional Technology Coordinator and passionate technology enthusiast.  She began her career as a math teacher, and eventually taught grades from Pre-K through 8th grade.  During that time, she used multiple technology resources to engage students and improve learning.  

As an Instructional Technology Coordinator, she provides staff development and training on all areas of technology integration.  She enjoys encouraging teachers to step out of the bounds of the classroom walls, and embrace new ways of engaging the students.

#TXEDUCHAT, innovation, Instruction, Maker
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#TMLOOE and #TxEduChat combine!

 On 2/26 at 8pm Join a Tinker Make and Learn Chat

when #TMLOOE and #TxEduChat combine with

Host: Christina Hendricks

Some general info about Christina

@clhendricksbc

@clhendricksbc

I teach philosophy at a university in British Columbia, Canada. I’ve gotten excited about open education through taking and helping to facilitate some open online courses, including ETMOOC (Educational Technology and Media MOOC), DS106 (digital storytelling), an open online course on open education from the Open University (H817Open), and I’ve been a co-facilitator for a course called “Why Open?” at P2PU and for OOE13 (an edtech MOOC for educators running Sept. 2013-May 2014). It is through my work in DS106 that I’ve gotten most excited about making and sharing things online in a great community. 

I want to learn how to…

I really want to beef up my html skills. I know how to add links and images in html, but that’s about it. Other than that, I am open to learning things that I don’t even know how to ask about right now!

What “making” means to me

No longer only having to consume what others have created, but being able to have more control over the things I interact with, being able to find and use tools to create what I want for the purposes I want, rather than being stuck using what others have made for their own purposes. I want to be able to make things openly and share them openly because what I create could be useful to others in ways I can’t even imagine, and the processes used, the story of how it was done, can sometimes be even more useful than the product. So I try to take the time to document on my blog how I’ve made things, the mistakes, the successes, not only for my own future reminders, but for anyone else who’d like to try.

#TXEDUCHAT, Creativity, education, Maker, passion, teaching, Twitterchat
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Maker Movement

December 14, 2014 at 8pm Central

Join @JackieGerstein on #txeduchat

for the Maker Movement

@jackiegerstein

@jackiegerstein

Dr. Jackie Gerstein’s byline is, “I don’t do teaching for a living. I live teaching as my doing . . . and technology has amplified my passion for doing so.”  Currently she teaches master’s-level online courses in educational technology for Boise State, American Intercontinental, and Western’s Governors’ Universities. She believes that one of the roles and responsibilities of the 21st century education is to share resources, ideas, and instructional strategies with other educators.  As such she blogs at http://usergeneratededucation.wordpress.com/ and tweets at @jackiegerstein

If you enjoy this topic then the Massive Open Online Course “Tinker Make & Learn” on Canvas.net may be right for you.  You can enroll here:

https://www.canvas.net/browse/canvasnet/courses/tinker-make-learn

If you make, you are a part of the Maker Movement. But how can you use the ideas from the Maker Movement in your teaching and learning? How can you use maker projects to teach in an authentic way? Should you? Tinker, Make & Learn will help you to develop some ideas. Another part of the Tinker, Make & Learn course purpose is to help spread the best practices, lessons learned and research from maker programs around the world. Collaboration with other participants is part of this experience and will help you gain some insight into how to creatively infuse your teaching and learning with the Maker Mindset. The Maker Movement believes that people can make extraordinary things. We hope this course will inspire you to do just that.

Topics covered include:

  • The value of the Maker Movement
  • Maker Focus Activities, sharing ideas and hacks
  • The intersection of Making & Learning
  • Making your Makerspace
  • Makerspaces, Fablabs, Pop-Ups, Maker Shops
  • Creating your Maker Plan
  • The Tinker, Make and Learn MOOC is free for teachers, librarians, higher education faculty, and other educators interested in finding out more about making and learning.
#TXEDUCHAT, Creativity, education, Maker, teaching
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